Euclid is ESA's space mission to explore the dark Universe, launched on July 1, 2023. The VIS instrument is one of the two instruments on Euclid. It is a large format imager, with 609 million pixels covering a field of view of 0.57 deg2 (almost 3 times the solid angle of the full Moon) with 0.1 arcsec sampling. The VIS instrument is required to take sharp images in a broad optical filter for use in the weak lensing analysis, part of the core dark energy science from Euclid.
For more details on VIS, click here.
This is the test image from VIS on Euclid (now in an L2 orbit):
Euclid VIS test image
