Blue Dots is organized around a core team coordinating groups of experts in several planetary characterization themes:
Targets and their environments
Formation and evolution of planetary systems
Habitability criteria
Observations of planetary atmospheres
as well as relevant detection (...)
The goal of Blue Dots is to prepare a roadmap towards the detection and characterization of habitable exoplanets, recognizing that this ambitious goal will require several intermediate steps. The scope of the initiative is science oriented and not restricted to a particular detection technique, (...)