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ARIEL/CASE

Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey

Overview: ARIEL, the Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey, is a European Space Agency (ESA) M-class mission, with participation from NASA, to survey and characterize the atmospheres of 1000 exoplanets. ARIEL is a 1 m class telescope with 3 photometric channels and 3 spectroscopic channels covering continuously 0.5 to 8 microns in wavelengths. The goal of ARIEL is to survey ~1000 transiting exoplanets from gas giants to rocky planets in the hot to temperate zones of their host stars. ARIEL is expected to launch in 2029.

Links

ARIEL ESA homepage

NASA-JPL is contributing to the ARIEL Mission with the CASE (Contribution to ARIEL Spectroscopy of Exoplanets, PI Mark Swain) which provides the optical and near-infrared (0.5 - 2 um) science capabilities and fine guidance sensors for ARIEL. IPAC is providing the processing environment and the US Data Archive for all ARIEL data.

Mission News

Ariel Passes Major Milestone

Project News • August 23rd, 2023

Ariel, the European Space Agency’s next-generation mission to observe the chemical make-up of distant extrasolar...

ARIEL Moves from Blueprint to Reality

Project News • November 12th, 2020

ESA's exoplanet mission Ariel, scheduled for launch in 2029, has moved from study to implementation phase, following...

NASA Instrument to Probe Planet Clouds on European Mission

Project News • November 8th, 2019

NASA will contribute an instrument to a European space mission that will explore the atmospheres of hundreds of...