Science and Exploration

JPL Proposes FINESSE Mission for Exoplanets Atmosphere Detection

By Marc Boucher
Status Report
May 18, 2012
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JPL Proposes FINESSE Mission for Exoplanets Atmosphere Detection
FINESSE Spacecraft.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory has released the following video to market it’s proposed FINESSE Exoplanet mission. The mission, proposed as part of NASA’s Explorers Program, would according to JPL “take the first family portrait of exoplanets” by trying to determine what exoplanet atmospheres are made of including “what conditions or processes are responsible for their composition, and how our own solar system fits into the larger family of planets”.

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