NASA and DoE Team On Dark Energy Research
Roland Piquepaille writes “NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy have teamed up to operate the future Joint Dark Energy Mission. As you probably know, recent astronomical measurements have showed that about 72% of the total energy in the universe is dark energy, even if scientists don’t know much about it, but speculate that it is present almost since the beginning of our Universe more than 13 billion years ago. The JDEM ‘mission will make precise measurements of the expansion rate of the universe to understand how this rate has changed with time. These measurements will yield vital clues about the nature of dark energy.’ The launch of a spacecraft for the JDEM mission is not planned before 2015.”
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