Nasa S Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Tess
Nasa s ongoing search for life in the universe produces a lot of data.
Nasa s transiting exoplanet survey satellite tess. Nasa s transiting exoplanet survey satellite tess finished its primary mission imaging about 75 of the starry sky as part of a 2 year long survey. Nasa s transiting exoplanet survey satellite or tess is an all sky survey mission that will discover thousands of exoplanets around nearby bright stars. It was launched on april 18 2018 atop a falcon 9 rocket and was placed into a highly elliptical 13 7 day orbit around the earth. The primary goal of tess is to discover planets smaller than neptune that transit stars bright enough to enable follow up spectroscopic observations that can.
In capturing this giant mosaic tess has found 66 new exoplanets. Nasa gov brings you the latest images videos and news from america s space agency. The agency s new planet hunting mission the transiting exoplanet survey satellite or tess will collect 27 gigabytes per day in its all sky search for undiscovered planets orbiting 200 000 of the brightest and closest stars in our solar neighborhood. The transiting exoplanet survey satellite tess is a space telescope for nasa s explorers program designed to search for exoplanets using the transit method in an area 400 times larger than that covered by the kepler mission.