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The DARWIN project – An ESA cornerstone candidate mission
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 May 2016
Abstract
The DARWIN project is ESA's candidate mission for the search for extra-solar Earth-type planets. Its aims are to survey the closest stars for these planets, and if detected characterise them as what concerns their physical conditions, their atmospheric composition and their ability to host life as we know it.
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- Part V: Discovery and study of extrasolar planets - future
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