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Information about the European Space Agency's Gaia mission
can be found on several ESA web sites. The web sites have been devised to serve different audiences. More details
of these sites are given below.
This
web site (http://www.rssd.esa.int/gaia) contains information
and resources for individuals working closely with the Gaia
project. The site is a tool for information flow between
these people, and provides access to material that they
require in order to keep up-to-date with developments in
the project. Some of the content that was previously to
be found on this site (e.g. overviews of the mission, description
of scientific goals, etc.) has been moved to the Science
and Technology web site (see below).
| Gaia
on the Science and Technology web site |
The Science
and Technology web site (Sci-Tech Portal) contains material
of interest to the scientific, technical and industrial
communities involved in the many missions of ESA's Science
Programme. The Gaia
pages of the Sci-Tech Portal contain mission overviews,
summaries of the scientific goals of the mission, satellite
and payload descriptions, and up-to-date status notes from
the project. There are also links to outreach material produced
by the project.
| Gaia
on ESA's science outreach web site |
ESA's Science Programme Communication Service is responsible
for communication, for ESA's Science Directorate, to the
general public. Communication activities, including those
on the Science
Outreach web site, are programme-oriented and not mission-oriented,
thus Gaia will be presented in the context of the Science
Programme as a whole.
There exist many other web sites dealing with the Gaia
mission (see Related
sites section). These are created and maintained by
groups working on different aspects of the mission. ESA
is not responsible for the content of these related sites.
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