The mosaic released today is a taste of what comes from Euclid. The mission is scheduled to release a 53-square-degree Euclidean survey, including a preview of the Euclidean Deep Field region, in March 2025, and its first year of cosmology data in 2026.
NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman mission will also study dark energy in a way that complements Euclidean. Mission planners plan to use Euclid’s findings to inform Roman’s dark energy research. Scheduled to launch by May 2027, Roman will study a smaller part of the sky than Euclid, but it will provide high-resolution images of millions of galaxies and peer deeper into the universe’s past. We plan to provide complementary information. In addition, Roman plans to explore nearby galaxies, find and study planets throughout the galaxy, and study objects on the outskirts of our solar system.
Learn more about Euclid
Euclid is a European mission built and operated by ESA with donations from NASA. The Euclid consortium is comprised of more than 2,000 scientists from 300 institutions in 15 European countries, the United States, Canada, and Japan, and is responsible for providing scientific equipment and scientific data analysis. ESA selected Thales Alenia Space as the prime contractor for the construction of the satellite and its service module, while Airbus Defense and Space was selected to develop the payload module, including the telescope. Euclid is a mid-class mission in ESA’s Cosmic Vision program.
Three NASA-supported science teams are contributing to Euclid’s mission. In addition to designing and manufacturing the sensor chip electronics for Euclid’s near-infrared spectrophotometer (NISP) instrument, JPL also led the procurement and delivery of the NISP detector. These detectors, along with sensor chip electronics, were tested at NASA’s Detector Characterization Laboratory at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Euclid NASA Science Center at IPAC (ENSCI), located at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, archives scientific data and supports U.S.-based scientific research. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology.
For more information about Euclid, see:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/euclid/main/index.html
Learn more about Roman below.
https://roman.gsfc.nasa.gov
