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We briefly outline the basic ideas behind LIFE, the Large Interferometer For Exoplanets, a proposed space mission which topic coincides with one of those recently selected for ESA's Voyage 2050. LIFE is a project initiated in Europe with the goal to consolidate various efforts and define a roadmap that eventually leads to the launch of a large, space based mid-IR nulling interferometer to investigate the atmospheric properties of a large sample of (primarily) terrestrial exoplanets. We summarise the current scientific and engineering efforts related to LIFE.

See https://life-space-mission.com/