launches atop a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida this evening at 7:48 pm PST. Its 3.5 year mission is to census potentially habitable exoplanets in a small patch of sky, and to determine their structure and diversity.
Link to Kepler mission home page. And in case you want to watch the liftoff, here's a link to NASA-TV.
My prediction: terrestrial (rocky) planets will be found to be common around Population I G-class stars such as our Sun.
Friday, March 6, 2009
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