David Kipping

And so if they don't get that time, it's hard.

That's it.

If it conflicted with another proposal that wants to use another time-critical element.

It's much easier for planets like these hot planets or these close-in planets because they transit so frequently.

there's maybe a hundred opportunities.

And so then the TAC can say, okay, they want 10 transits.

There's a hundred opportunities here.

It's easier for us to give them time.

We're almost in the worst case scenario.

We're proposing to look for exomines around two cool planets.

And so we really only have one bite of the cherry for each one.

And so our sales pitch has been that these are extremely precious events.

And more importantly, JWST,

is the only telescope, the only machine humanity has ever constructed, which is capable of finding moons akin to the moons in our solar system.

Kepler can't do it, even Hubble can't do it.

Jupiter sees the first one.

And so there is a new window to the universe because we know these moons exist.

They're all over the place in the solar system.

You have the moon, you have Io, Callisto, Europa, Ganymede, Titan.

Lots of moons are fairly similar size, sort of 30% the size of the Earth.