55 Cancri e/Janssen Atmosphere

[Spaceception]

So 55 Cancri e/Janssen was recently found to have an atmosphere of H2 and He (http://www.apextribune.com/tag/55-canri-e/) and a temperature of 1999 c, the planet has a mass of 8.3 Earths and a radii of 2 Earths, it's 40 ly away, and I was wondering when you guys think we'll detect the atmosphere of an Earth-like exoplanet.

Edited February 21, 2016 by Spaceception

[Findthepin1]

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Edited February 20, 2016 by Findthepin1

[Spaceception]

11 minutes ago, Findthepin1 said:

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[Wjolcz]

SOmeone enlihten me if I'm wrong, but won't JWST be able to do that? Seems like it's going to be a pretty powerful space telescope.

[Spaceception]

11 minutes ago, Veeltch said:

SOmeone enlihten me if I'm wrong, but won't JWST be able to do that? Seems like it's going to be a pretty powerful space telescope.

Yeah, That's why the poll starts at 2018, when JWST goes up

[Mitchz95]

Even when JWST come online, it won't be able to dedicate all of its time to studying exoplanets. And we haven't even discovered all of the exoplanets close enough to detect.

I think it'll be after 2025, personally. Not long after, but after. (Maybe add such an option to your poll?)

[Bill Phil]

I'll say 2025, since we currently know of 2000+ planets, and we'll get more over time, it'll take a long time to study each one's atmosphere.

[Spaceception]

7 hours ago, Mitchz95 said:

Even when JWST come online, it won't be able to dedicate all of its time to studying exoplanets. And we haven't even discovered all of the exoplanets close enough to detect.

I think it'll be after 2025, personally. Not long after, but after. (Maybe add such an option to your poll?)

This will likely be one of the first Exoplanet systems JWST looks at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_1061

Alright, I'll go up to 2030, I don't think it'll take longer than 13 years to study a habitable exoplanets atmosphere.