NASA has decided to move forward with two complementary Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) missions, a visible coronagraph and an infrared formation flying interferometer in collaboration with ESA. These missions are major missions in the NASA Office of Space Science Origins Theme. The primary science objectives of the TPF missions are to search for, detect, and characterize planets and planetary systems beyond our own Solar System, including specifically Earth-like planets.


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    Title :

    NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder missions


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Space Telescopes ; 2004 ; United States


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2004-10-12





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English