TESS is a NASA mission scheduled for launch in 2017, while PLATO is to be launched in 2024 by the European Space Agency; both will search for
transiting terrestrial planets around nearby bright stars.
Not exact matches
These exoplanets —
terrestrial and larger
planets orbiting other stars — are detected with help from NASA's Kepler spacecraft, which launched in March 2009 with the goal of using the
transit technique to detect exoplanets.
Finally, the
planet - distribution of Brown (2003) is one of hot giant
planets; CoRoT's results contain to date 5 hot giants which follow approximately the distribution of Brown, and one
terrestrial planet (CoRoT - 7b), visible as a small peak at a
transit depth of 0.04 % in Fig. 2.
Abstract: The Kepler Mission was launched on March 6, 2009 to perform a photometric survey of more than 100,000 dwarf stars to search for
terrestrial - size
planets with the
transit technique.
Follow - up observations of planetary candidates identified by detection of
transit - like events are needed both for identification of astrophysical phenomena that mimic planetary
transits and for characterization of the... ▽ More The Kepler Mission was launched on March 6, 2009 to perform a photometric survey of more than 100,000 dwarf stars to search for
terrestrial - size
planets with the
transit technique.