Pandora, a new space telescope, will study exoplanets' atmospheres to search for signs of life. The mission will use long-duration multiwavelength observations to analyze the chemical composition of these planets and look for biosignatures, particularly water. Pandora will focus on planets detected by other missions, including the James Webb Space Telescope, and will help to disentangle star signals from planetary signals. This will allow for more precise atmospheric measurements.
have been confirmed in 4,346 star systems, while thousands more await confirmation. The vast majority of these planets were detected in the past twenty years, owing to missions like theIn the meantime, astronomers will soon have another advanced observatory to help search for potentially habitable exoplanets. It’s called.
In particular, Pandora will be looking to determine the presence of hazes, clouds, and water. The data it obtains will establish a firm foundation for interpreting measurements byand future missions to search for habitable worlds.
The concept for the telescope emerged to address a specific problem with Transit Spectroscopy. During transits, telescopes capture far more than just the passing through the planet’s atmosphere. They also capture light from the star itself. In addition, stellar surfaces are not uniform and have hotter, brighter regions and cooler, darker regions that change in size and position as the star rotates.
EXOPLANETS SPACE TELESCOPE ATMOSPHERE BIOSIGNATURES WATER
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