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Ames Coronagraph Experiment: Enabling Missions to Directly Image Exoplanets

Belikov, Ruslan
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Technology to find biomarkers and life on other worlds is rapidly maturing. If there is a habitable planet around the nearest star, we may be able to detect it this decade with a small satellite mission. In the 2030 decade, we will likely know if there is life in our Galactic neighborhood (1000 nearest stars). The Ames Coronagraph Experiment is developing coronagraphic technologies to enable such missions.

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Belikov, Ruslan. 2014-01-01. Ames Coronagraph Experiment: Enabling Missions to Directly Image Exoplanets. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20140013237

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