{"id":20148,"date":"2025-04-04T10:49:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T05:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20148"},"modified":"2025-04-05T22:42:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T17:12:13","slug":"what-is-transiting-exoplanet-survey-satellite-tess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-transiting-exoplanet-survey-satellite-tess\/","title":{"rendered":"Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers recently detected a new warm Jupiter exoplanet located more than 1,000 light years away.<\/p>\n<h2>About Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>TESS is a <strong>NASA mission<\/strong> that was launched in March 2018.<\/li>\n<li>It is a small space telescope designed to<strong> discover <\/strong>thousands of <strong>exoplanets in orbit around the brightest dwarf stars<\/strong> in the sky.<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>follow-up to NASA&#8217;s<\/strong> highly successful <strong>Kepler space telescope,<\/strong> which found thousands of exoplanets during a decade of work after its launch in 2009.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In its prime mission,<\/strong> a <strong>two-year survey<\/strong> of the solar neighborhood, <strong>TESS monitored <\/strong>the <strong>brightness of stars for periodic drops caused by planet transits.\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>This method <strong>reveals <\/strong>the <strong>diameter of the planet<\/strong> and the <strong>size of its orbit.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Orbits within a certain range lie in the \u201chabitable zone<\/strong>\u201d, where liquid water can exist on the surface of an Earth-like world.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>prime mission ended on July 4, 2020,<\/strong> and TESS is <strong>now in an extended mission.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>TESS is finding planets ranging from small, rocky worlds to giant planets, showcasing the diversity of planets in the galaxy.<\/li>\n<li>TES<strong>S finished its primary mission<\/strong> by <strong>imaging about 75% of the starry sky<\/strong> as part of a two-year-long survey. In capturing this giant mosaic, TESS found 66 new exoplanets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What is the purpose of the transiting exoplanet survey satellite?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. To discover exoplanets around the brightest stars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Which earlier NASA mission did TESS succeed?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Kepler<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What does TESS measure to identify the presence of an exoplanet?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Periodic dips in a star\u2019s brightness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-04-distant-jupiter-tess.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PHYS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), launched in March 2018, explores the sky to discover exoplanets orbiting nearby stars using the transit method.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}