TESS Coverage Animations

  • Released Wednesday, March 28, 2018
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Animation showing the TESS spacecraft and the coverage of its four cameras. Each camera covers a 24 degrees-square patch of sky and the four cameras are arranged in a vertical strip called an observation sector.

Same as the above, but without onscreen text.

Animation showing how TESS will observe the sky. TESS will watch each observation sector for at least 27 days, before rotating to the next one, covering first the south and then the north to build a map of 85 percent of the sky.

Same as the above, but with no onscreen text.

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This page was originally published on Wednesday, March 28, 2018.
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