John M. Grunsfeld Associate Administrator
Science Mission Directorate
7 May 2013
Comparative Cl imatology
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ARTIST’S CONCEPTS
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Habitable Zone Line Up
NASA SDO Observes Earth, Lunar Transits in Same Day
03.11.13
The James Webb Space Telescope
. . . go ing where no Hubble has gone before
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
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Predicted Planet Yield from TESS Mission
TESS Will Discover ~300 Earths & Super-Earths
TESS Targets Enable Comparative Planetology with JWST
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TESS Finds the Best and Brightest Targets for JWST
15 Discovering New Earths and Super-Earths in the Solar Neighborhood
TESS Enables Atmospheric Characterization
Suomi-NPP “Blue Marble”
2012