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EUROPE BIDS GAIA A SAFE JOURNEY News from ESA This animation shows the Gaia spacecraft spinning in space scanning the sky. . Copyright: ESA – C. Carreau ESA’s billion-star surveyor, Gaia, has completed final preparations in Europe and is ready to depart for its launch site in French Guiana, set to embark on a five-year mission to map the stars with unprecedented precision. Gaia’s main goal is to create a highly accurate 3D map of our Milky Way Galaxy by repeatedly observing a billion stars to determine their precise positions in space and their motions through it.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 00:10:00 +0000

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