TESS Reaches Fifth Anniversary of Extraordinary Mission, but its Work is Far from Over - by ET_Exists
on April 18, 2018, aboard a SpaceX Falcon rocket. During its five years in space, TESS’s four 24 degrees by 24 degrees field-of-view CCD cameras have successfully mapped greater than 93% of the cosmos.
To create its sky map, TESS scans large portions of the sky known as sectors, with each sector encompassing 24 by 96 degrees and taking approximately one month to complete. The size of each sector is approximately one hand’s width and spans from the horizon to the sky’s highest point, also called the zenith, with each full-frame image consisting of 192 million pixels. TESS’son July 4, 2020, during which time it was able to record each sector once every 30 minutes.
“The volume of high-quality TESS data now available is quite impressive,” said Dr. Knicole Colón, who is TESS’s project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center . “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.”
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