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