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This proget is designed to search out planets around stars that could possibly have Life.
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Kepler arrives at at Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. (http://astronautics.posterous.com/untitled-25051)
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Feb 19, 2009: The truck carrying NASA's Kepler spacecraft, enclosed in a canister and protective cover, arrives at Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The liftoff of Kepler aboard a Delta II rocket is currently targeted for 10:48 p.m. EST March 5 from Pad 17-B. Kepler is designed to survey more than 100,000 stars in our galaxy to determine the number of sun-like stars that have Earth-size and larger planets, including those that lie in a star's "habitable zone," a region where liquid water, and perhaps life, could exist. If these Earth-size worlds do exist around stars like our sun, Kepler is expected to be the first to find them and the first to measure how common they are. - courtesy of NASA; image credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller
This proget is designed to search out planets around stars that could possibly have Life.
They'd do well to let it do a few orbits around Earth first and see what it finds.
oldmarine
20-Feb-09, 02:18
They'd do well to let it do a few orbits around Earth first and see what it finds.
Any idea of what you think would be found?
Great news and nice to see Kepler honoured in this way. The next auto-truck delivery to the space station is also named after Kepler. I was interested to see that after these trucks deliver their load they are sent to burnup safely in the atmosphere. Considering their enormous size and cost I fail to understand why they aren't incorporated into the space station as new modules. :eek:
Great news and nice to see Kepler honoured in this way. The next auto-truck delivery to the space station is also named after Kepler. I was interested to see that after these trucks deliver their load they are sent to burnup safely in the atmosphere. Considering their enormous size and cost I fail to understand why they aren't incorporated into the space station as new modules. :eek:
You have a very good point there, I assume that there must be a reason but what I have no idea. I will ask and try to find out but I am not sure if "Astronautics" will answer me. They didn't last time.
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