China is currently looking for a planet with Earth-like environments. Beijing is looking for another home planet for beings who have life-sustaining conditions. Scientists are planning a mission to hunt exoplanets beyond our solar system. In the Milky Way galaxy, a planet in its star’s habitable zone could be suitable.
According to a report in the news Nature, the Chinese Academy of Sciences designed Earth 2.0, the name of the mission. Earth 2.0 is still in its infancy. While a team of experts is reviewing the plan, this operation will be carried out in June. After they approve the plan, the mission’s development and financing phase begins. This will result in the satellite building process.
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From Africa to the whole earth!
Now from Earth to Earth 2.0.— Dr. Devi PhD (@itzmedevi) Apr 14, 2022
The mission will be assisted by seven telescopes that will scan the sky for exoplanets. This is similar to NASA’s Kepler mission. “The Kepler field is low-hanging fruit because we have very solid information from it. In terms of sky surveys, our satellite could be 1015 times more powerful than NASA’s Kepler telescope.” – Jian Lee, Chief Astronomer, Earth 2.0.
Six of the seven telescopes will analyze 1.2 million stars over a 500-square-degree sky region. Earth 2.0 will be able to see more stars and galaxies than NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which sees only bright stars close to Earth.
The seventh instrument will be a gravitational lens telescope that will be used to study rogue celestial bodies. The Chinese scientists hope to discover at least a dozen Earth 2.0 planets in the first few years of operation.
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Another space mission to discover exoplanets, led by the European Space Agency, will be launched in 2026. Planetary Transits and Star Oscillations is the name of the mission (PLATO). PLATO will also have 26 telescopes and a much larger field of view than Earth 2.0, but it will orbit different regions of space every two years.
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