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NASA's Pandora mission, which aims to help study the atmospheres of at least 20 known exoplanets orbiting distant stars, is scheduled to launch in the fall of 2025.
The Pandora spacecraft is equipped with a special telescope with a diameter of 45 centimeters, which will observe each of the selected exoplanets for 24 hours, simultaneously studying the starlight and the spectrum of the distant planet in the visible and near-infrared ranges.
Such a strategy will provide detailed data collection that is unavailable to other observatories and telescopes due to limited observation times.
Pandora will, among other things, allow us to determine the composition of exoplanets' atmospheres and find out whether there are clouds and water there.
