NASA is blowing out the birthday candles as its TESS explorer marks five years of discovery.
From the first discoveries by TESS to its most recent, the probe has played a tremendous role in mapping the cosmos. During its mission, TESS has also contributed in collaboration with other spacecraft to discover a trove of new cosmic phenomena, including NASA's Swift, NuSTAR and Spitzer Space Telescopes, as well as the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton satellite.
"We have more than 251 terabytes just for one of the main data products, called full-frame images. That's the equivalent of streaming 167,000 movies in full HD," said mission project scientist Knicole Colón in a"We're celebrating TESS's fifth anniversary at work — and wishing it many happy returns!" Colón added.
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