Mission Ariel: what’s the air like on exoplanets?
Ariel is a mission of the European Space Agency, whose launch is scheduled in 2029 and devoted to studying the atmospheres of extrasolar planets, namely all those planets orbiting around stars similar or different from the Sun. Thanks to this space mission, for the first time it will be possible to carry on a systematic study of the properties and chemical composition of the atmosphere of these celestial bodies, to shed some light on the still obscure points about their formation and evolution. Italy is one of the 17 countries taking partLEGGI TUTTO