January 4, 2010

NASA's Kepler Telescope Scores

Kepler launched around 9 months ago.  Designed to find Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars, Kepler discovered its first five planets beyond our solar system.  These planets are unhabitable, but hopes are for finding planets similar to our own.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mars!

Keith said...

Coast to Coast!