The search for another Earth
It?s the turn of the Kepler telescope after Hubble telescope for deeper peep into our galaxy.Kepler, NASA's $600 million telescope is believed to revolutionise our knowledge about Universe. It'll be launched this week from the Kennedy Space Centre
NASA IS ready to launch the Kepler telescope, far bigger than Hubble telescope, to search for Earth-size planets having water on their surface in our galaxy. It is believed that Kepler will revolutionise our knowledge about the universe.
These planets are too small and too difficult to be seen but they could be the ones on which life could exist.
Kepler is NASA's $600 million telescope that will be launched this week from the Kennedy Space Centre.
The other features of the new mission are as follows.
Kepler is NASA's $600 million telescope that will be launched this week from the Kennedy Space Centre.
The other features of the new mission are as follows.
- It will take a full census of the kind of planets that exist around other stars in our galaxy.
- Kepler's telescope will work by detecting starlight and its variations
- It will analyze minute changes in brightness in the galaxy while scanning space for planets like Earth
- It will also trail Earth as it orbits the sun.
- The mission will last from three-and-a-half to six years.
During the mission, Kepler will measure changes in the brightness of more than 100,000 stars, every 30 minutes to review the structure and formation of galaxies.
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