On Wednesday May 1, science writer Bruce Lieberman asked
your questions about exoplanets and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) project in an interviiew with George Ricker, Sara Seager and Joshua Winn.
On May 1, science writer Bruce Lieberman asked
your questions about exoplanets and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) project in an interviiew with George Ricker, Sara Seager and Joshua Winn.
Not exact matches
So it's a natural
question to ask
about exoplanets, but a hard one.
«The big
question is, are those hot
exoplanets telling us anything
about the frequency of Earthlike planets?
So it's a natural
question to ask
about exoplanets — although a hard one.
At this point, we have more
questions than answers
about these
exoplanets.
Reflecting this our group started with a huge list of
questions — close to a hundred of them, everything we wanted to know
about exoplanets.
Two focus on astrophysics and
questions about the make - up and origins of the universe and two on
exoplanets and the effort to determine if some might have the conditions that could support life and, perhaps, might actually do so.
Three - dimensional (3D) planetary general circulation models (GCMs) derived from the models that we use to project 21st Century changes in Earth's climate can now be used to address outstanding
questions about how Earth became and remained habitable despite wide swings in solar radiation, atmospheric chemistry, and other climate forcings; whether these different eras of habitability manifest themselves in signals that might be detected from a great distance; whether and how planets such as Mars and Venus were habitable in the past; how common habitable
exoplanets might be; and how we might best answer this
question with future observations.