ESA's Planck will be more sensitive than NASA's MAP, agency says

THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY'S Planck mission to map cosmic background microwave radiation will be at least 10 times more sensitive than NASA's Microwave Anisotropy Probe, which launched over the weekend (see story on Page 7), according to ESA. Planck is scheduled to launch in 2007.

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