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NASA’s project
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TESS is designed to find potential planets orbiting stars close to Earth.
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It will identify such planets by spotting decreased brightness of stars after planet passes in front of it.
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The primary mission objective of TESS is to survey brightest stars near Earth for transiting exoplanets over two-year period.
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With help of TESS, it will be possible to study mass, size, density and orbit of large cohort of small planets, including sample of rocky worlds in habitable zones (goldilocks zone) of their host stars.
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This will reveal whether planets are rocky (like Earth), gas or jovian giants (like Jupiter) or something even more unusual.
