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The Search for Terrestrial Planets: What Do we Need to Know?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

Charles Beichman
Charles Beichman*
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, U.S.A.

Abstract

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The goal of finding and characterizing habitable planets in other solar systems represents one of humanity's greatest scientific challenges. NASA and ESA have initiated studies of missions that could accomplish this goal within the next ten years. What precursor knowledge do we need before we can initiate such a mission? How large should the first steps be in a program whose ultimate aim is to detect life on other planets? This talk describes different concepts for NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder and discusses potential precursors in a program that balances scientific return, technological advance, and programmatic risk.

Type
Part V: Discovery and study of extrasolar planets - future
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 202: Planetary Systems in the Universe – Observation, Formation and Evolution , 2004 , pp. 432 - 441
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004 

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