Planet Hunting by Andrew Langley

Author:Andrew Langley [Langley, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: 978-1-5435-7270-4; 978-1-5435-7516-3; Mars; Lunar base; Lunar Gateway; Star Wars; Star Trek; Moon Landing; New Horizons; Hubble Space Telescope; James Webb Telescope; SpaceX; Boeing; Exploration Campaign; Scott Kelly; Mark Kelly; NASA Twins Study; Parker Solar Probe; Elon Musk; artificial intelligence; space robots; NASA; Tesla; deep space; Artificial Intelligence and Robotic Space Craft Development; stereo vision for collision avoidance; robotic space craft development
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2019-07-17T00:00:00+00:00

Hubble Space Telescope

A new planet hunter launched into space in 2013. The European Gaia telescope has a big mission. Scientists will use it to survey more than 1 billion stars. Gaia’s data will help scientists create the most accurate map of our galaxy. This map will show new planets, comets, and quasars. Quasars are bright objects in deep space. They give off more energy than 100 galaxies put together.

TESS

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) joined the planet hunt in April 2018. TESS’s journey around Earth takes it close to the moon. The spacecraft’s mission is to watch 200,000 of the brightest stars near Earth.

TESS has four wide-angle cameras that detect tiny changes in a star’s brightness. This shows that a planet is moving in front of the star. The cameras take exact measurements of these light changes every two minutes.

Scientists have divided up the sky into 26 sections. TESS’s cameras will look at one section for 27 days. Then the spacecraft will rotate to the next section. It will take TESS two years to look at all 26 sections in space.

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