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Committee on Science, Space, and Technology December 4, 2013 ![]() Video 1:29:34 | + Watch Video “We stand on a great threshold in the human history of space exploration.” Watch archived video from the US House of Representatives hearing on the search for Biosignatures in our Solar System and Beyond. |
Exoplanets: The Next Frontier | An interview with Sara Seager Published on June 21, 2013 Video 6:11 | + Watch on YouTube Sara Seager sits down with Sky & Telescope's Editor in Chief Robert Naeye to talk about the future of exoplanet studies and the exotic worlds we might find. Her cover story on what 20 years of exoplanet studies has taught us appears in the August 2013 issue of Sky & Telescope.Sara Seager sits down with Sky & Telescope's Editor in Chief Robert Naeye to talk about the future of exoplanet studies and the exotic worlds we might find. |
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Spotlight Live: TESS & the Search for Exoplanets Streamed live on May 1, 2013 Video 33:33 | + Watch on YouTube 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. |
Transiting Exploplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) (George Ricker) Uploaded on Nov 17, 2011 Video 8:03 | + Watch on YouTube Using an array of telescopes, TESS would perform an all-sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets, ranging from Earth-sized to gas giants, in orbit around the nearest and brightest stars in the sky. The mission's primary goal would be to identify terrestrial planets in the habitable zones of nearby stars. |
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NASA | The Search for New Worlds is Here Published on Mar 20, 2015 Video 1:44 | + Watch on YouTube The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is an astrophysics Explorer-class mission between NASA and MIT. After launching in 2017, TESS will use four cameras to scan the entire sky, searching for planets outside our Solar System, known as exoplanets. The mission will monitor over 200,000 of the brightest stars in the sky, searching for dips in their brightness that would indicate a planet transiting across. TESS is predicted to find over 3,000 exoplanet candidates, ranging from gas giants to small rocky planets. About 500 of these planets are expected to be similar to Earth's size. The stars TESS monitors will be 30-100 times brighter than those observed by Kepler, making follow-up observations much easier. Using TESS data, missions like the James Webb Space Telescope can determine specific characteristics of these planets, including whether they could support life. |
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Fact Sheet by NASA GSFC + Download | PDF | 662KB | 2 Pages |
Fact Sheet by Orbital ATK + Download | PDF | 1.2MB | 2 Pages |
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Lithograph by NASA GSFC + Download | PDF | 1.6MB | 2 Pages |
Lithograph with Line Art by NASA GSFC + Download | PDF | 1.5MB | 2 Pages |
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TESS Poster Version 1 + Download | PDF | 1 Page | 50MB |
TESS Poster Version 2 + Download | PDF | 1 Page | 164.2MB |
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TESS Oval Decal in Black + Download | High Resolution | 372KB + Download | Low Resolution | 188KB |
TESS Decal with Partners + Download | High Resolution | 420KB + Download | Low Resolution | 115KB |
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TESS Logo with White Background + Download | High Resolution | 251KB + Download | Low Resolution | 107KB |
TESS Logo with Black Background + Download | High Resolution | 238KB + Download | Low Resolution | 98KB |
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TESS Logo with Transparent Background + Download | High Resolution | 617KB + Download | Low Resolution | 138KB |
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TESS Logo Wallpaper + Download | Starfield Background | 1.4MB + Download | Black Background | 365KB + Download | White Background | 392KB + Download | Transparent Logo | 439KB For Iphone + Download | Starfield Background | 1MB + Download | Black Background | 143KB |
TESS Spacecraft Wallpaper + Download | Starfield Background | 400KB + Download | Black Background | 232KB + Download | White Background | 230KB For Iphone + Download | Starfield Background | 534KB + Download | Black Background | 349KB + Download | White Background | 163KB |
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Imagination of Exoplanets |
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Exoplanet Coloring Book A fun journey to learn about exoplanets, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) project has this coloring book for children (and those young at heart). The coloring book has some examples of the types of new planets around other stars than our own sun (exoplanets) that have been discovered and allows space for your imagination to color and create your own exoplanet. + Download | PDF | 28 Pages | 4.9MB + Descargar | PDF | 28 Páginas | 4.9MB |
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TESS Paper Model [1:20 scale] Model Design by John Jagerst (Version Dated 1/23/2015) + Download | PDF | 8 Pages | 1.6MB |