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Euclid is a survey telescope so closer to the Nancy Grace Roman telescope which might be sent out around 2027. https://www.nasa.gov/missions/roman-space-telesc
by pkaye 3y ago
Euclid is a survey telescope so closer to the Nancy Grace Roman telescope which might be sent out around 2027.
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/roman-space-telescope/nasas-roman-and-esas-euclid-will-team-up-to-investigate-dark-energy https://www.nasa.gov/missions/roman-space-telescope/nasas-ro...
There is also another earth based sky survey telescope, the Vera Rubin Observatory up next year. That one is kind of interesting because it will produce a massive amount of data with data processing to detect if an object in the sky changed brightness or position over time and send out alerts to scientists or anyone else interested.
https://www.lsst.org/ https://www.lsst.org/
- dakr 3y agoBack when 10TB was enough space for the entire Sloan survey, Vera Rubin Observatory was expected to produce 1TB every night. They dug a trench up into the mountains to lay a fiber optic cable specifically (and only) for Vera Rubin.
- OldGuyInTheClub 3y agoNot to quibble but it is an even more mindboggling 15TB/night. https://www.ipac.caltech.edu/project/rubin https://www.ipac.caltech.edu/project/rubin
- dakr 3y agoHaha, it must be inflation. Back when I was involved the 1TB number was the one being thrown around. Thanks for posting that link. IPAC is really doing well for themselves with all the new projects they're hosting.
- OldGuyInTheClub 3y agoThat must be it! A few years ago, an old high school chum who works on the Rubin also mentioned the 15TB number. I neglected to ask if that was raw FPA output that would be processed down to smaller sizes or sent as-is. The project has been going for a while so maybe the technology to do it became practical in the interim? Whatever they do send, it is still an astronomical amount of data. I'll show myself out.
- ahazred8ta 3y agoLsst.org is now saying 20TB, or ~ 60 Petabytes for the whole run.