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Mission Details

SPIRou’s mission is to search for exoplanets around low-mass stars and T Tauri stars, as well as study these star's magnetic fields. The SPIRou science team will explore the diversity of exoplanet systems of M stars, and identify habitable telluric planets for future space-based atmospheric studies.

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Articles from Institute for Research on Exoplanets

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SPIRou Spectrograph

Images supplied by Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets (Credit: S. Chastanet/CNRS/UPS/OMP)

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