The historical mission mapped in collaboration with Portuguese – Multimedia
Nearly two billion stars of the milk for over a decade to map with unprecedented accuracy, A. Gia Mission And and European Space Agency (ESA), today has come up to the end of the day. Portugal participated from the birth of this historical missionLIP – Instrumentation by a group that coordinates the laboratory and experimental cell physics.
Opened in 2013, Gia has been one of the most prestigious projects so far in the Galaxy study. Space probe More than three dimensions have been recorded, revealing the details of the structure, composition and evolution of the Milky WayIncluding conflicts with other galaxies, unknown star groups, colors, explanets and millions of distant galaxies.
As fuel reserves are exhausted, ESA plans to deactivate responsible. On March 27, 2025, The Mission was officially closed after the final maneuver placed in a safe solar orbit of the investigation.
Portugal played a guiding role in the Gia MissionThe first spatial scientific mission From the definition stage to be involved in, in 2006. The Portuguese team co -ordinated in areas like Andre Moetinho (Lip and Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon) Data Quality Control, Astrometric Factory, Image Reconstruction and Observation Parameters Optimization.
In recent years, Highlight GAIA Archive Visualization Service Development (Govs), a tool for visual and interactive data exploration used by scientists around the world.
Although the probe is disabled, Gia is away to complete. Afterwards Great Data Delivery 2026, and after 2030 the final catalog is scheduled. This data continues to increase innovations for decades.
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The probe on the board is about 1,500 team members – including Portuguese – “” as a symbolic tribute The mission that we will never see the way we see the sky“It can be read in a statement.
