18:00 05.03.2009
T-1 Day for Kepler Launch, Search for Alternative Earths [Searching For ET]
What looks like a large burrito wrapped in tin foil, is designed to find habitable planets, and is sitting—inside a Delta II rocket—on Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral AFS, ready for launch tomorrow night? The new Kepler spacecraft, the first telescope specifically designed to find planets like Earth, planets that can have live like our own in our region of the Milky Way. According to... read more
