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ESA’ Euclid Telescope Has an Ice Problem
Credit: ESA
Credit: ESA
The European Space Agency has revealed that a few layers of ice approximately the width of a strand of DNA have begun to impact its Euclid telescope’s optics.
Euclid was launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 in July 2023. The telescope was selected as the second medium-class mission of ESA’s Cosmic Vision programme in October 2011. It is designed to explore the composition and evolution of the dark universe.
ESA released the fi...
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