This artist’s impression shows the surface of a possible exoplanet placed at exactly the right distance from its parent star for liquid water to exist on its surface.
Credits: ESA. Illustration by Medialab
What is the rationale behind the exoplanet roadmap?
Prof. Artie Hatzes, Director of the Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg (Germany), chairs the Exoplanet Roadmap Advisory Team. This task force has been appointed by ESA in Spring 2008 to provide an overview of this research field and to suggest a set of technological milestones that must be achieved before rocky planets can be analysed.
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