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Two Concepts for the Terrestrial Planet Finder

Posted by timothy on from the hey-there's-on-terra dept.

EccentricAnomaly writes: "This NASA press release and this space.com story discuss two concepts for the terrestrial planet finder, a mission that will look for Earth sized planets around other stars. One concept is an infrared interferometer the will nullify starlight while amplifying the infrared light from any planets. The other concept is a visible light coronagraph - basically a larger version of Hubble that will block out the light from stars so that it can see any pale blue dots."

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  1. Related article in Discover Magazine... by BMazurek · · Score: 3, Informative
    There is/was a related article in the March 2002 issue of Discover Magazine.

    There is an online version of that story.