{"id":7222,"date":"2020-09-28T11:13:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T10:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=7222"},"modified":"2020-09-28T11:13:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T10:13:30","slug":"the-first-result-from-esas-cheops-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/the-first-result-from-esas-cheops-mission\/7222\/","title":{"rendered":"The first result from ESA\u2019s CHEOPS mission"},"content":{"rendered":"
CHEOPS was developed as part of a partnership between ESA and the University of Bern<\/a>, Switzerland. The consortium of more than a hundred scientists and engineers from 11 European states was involved in a five-year construction project for the satellite<\/a>. Using data from CHEOPS, scientists have recently carried out a detailed study of the exoplanet WASP-189b.<\/p>\n WASP-189b orbits the star HD 133112, one of the hottest stars known to have a planetary system. “The WASP-189 system is 322 light years away and located in the constellation Libra (the weighing scales),” explains Monika Lendl, lead author of the study from the University of Geneva, and member of the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS<\/a>.<\/p>\n Monika Lendl further explains that planetary objects like WASP-189b have a permanent day side, which is always exposed to the light of the star. This means that its climate is completely different from that of the gaexos giants Jupiter and Saturn in our solar system.<\/p>\n