SNAP Supernova / Acceleration Probe
Supernova studies discovered cosmic acceleration. A new mission, the Supernova / Acceleration Probe (SNAP), will greatly advance our understanding of this discovery and the fundamental new physics it implies. SNAP will study thousands of high redshift supernovae, each with unprecedented precision, using a 2-meter telescope with a one degree wide field-of-view and a unique billion-pixel camera. The SNAP instruments will cover the wavelength range from 400 nm to 1700 nm with spectro-photometry, and can discover and study with equal accuracy supernovae from redshifts of 0.3 up to 1.7. The supernovae will be used as cosmic markers of the scale of the universe over time to construct a history of the universe's growth.
