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Aquarius
Launch: 2010
This mission will provide the first-ever global maps of salt concentrations in the ocean surface needed to understand heat transport and storage in the ocean.
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Herschel
Launch: February 2009
The Herschel Space Observatory is a space-based telescope that will study the universe by the light of the far-infrared and submillimeter portions of the spectrum. JPL is making significant contributions to instruments on this European Space Agency mission.
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Kepler
Launch: April 2009
The Kepler Mission will search for Earth-like planets with the "transit" method. A one-meter diameter (39-inch) telescope equipped with the equivalent of 42 high quality digital cameras will continuously monitor the brightness of 100,000 stars, looking for planets that cross the lines-of-sight between Kepler and their parent stars.
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Moon Mineralogy Mapper
Launch: Fall/Winter 2008
The JPL-managed Moon Mineralogy Mapper is one of two instruments that NASA is contributing to India's first mission to the moon. The instrument is a state-of-the-art high spectral resolution imaging spectrometer that will characterize and map the mineral composition of the moon. The Moon Mineralogy Mapper will be flown on Chandrayaan-1.
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Orbiting Carbon Obvservatory
Launch: January 15, 2009
This mission will make the first space-based measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide with the accuracy and resolution needed to characterize its sources and sinks. Such information will improve forecasts of future concentrations of this important greenhouse gas and its impact on climate.
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Planck
Launch: February 2009
Planck is a European Space Agency project to study the cosmic background. JPL is providing the following instrumentation: most or all of the detectors, both of the bolometers in the "high frequency" instrument and the heterodyne receivers in the "low frequency" instrument.
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Space Interferometry Mission
Launch: TBD
This mission is an orbiting interferometer, which will link multiple telescopes to function in unison as a much larger "virtual telescope." The main goal is to detect planets of varying sizes -- from huge planets the size of Jupiter down to planets a few times as massive as Earth.
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Space Technology 8
Launch: 2009
As a mission of NASA's New Millennium Program, Space Technology 8 will space validate four new subsystem-level technologies. Each of these technologies was selected for its promise in advancing NASA's most important future science missions.
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