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The Search for Terrestrial Planets: What Do we Need to Know?
Charles Beichman
The goal of finding and characterizing habitable planets in other solar systems represents one of humanity's greatest scientific challenges. NASA and ESA have initiated studies of…
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Captain Cook, the Terrestrial Planet Finder and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Charles Beichman
Over two hundred years ago Capt. James Cook sailed up Whitsunday Passage, just a few miles where we now sit, on a voyage of astronomical observation and discovery that remains an i…