Describe one of the future planned space missions to search for extrasolar planets. How will it improve on current observations?
What will be an ideal response?
There are several possibilities here, described in Section 13.4. E.g., GAIA will use space-based interferometry to measure the miniscule movements of stars as they are tugged by planets orbiting around them. TESS will use the same strategy as Kepler but cover the whole sky. CHEOPS will measure the properties of known extrasolar planets.
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