Kepler Opens Its Eye
April 8, 2009
Kepler Flips Its Lid; Soon Ready for Planet Hunt
Written by Nancy Atkinson
Engineers successfully ejected the dust cover from NASA’s Kepler telescope last night and the space observatory will soon begin searching for Earth-like planets.
“The cover released and flew away exactly as we designed it to do,†said Kepler Project Manager James Fanson from JPL.
“This is a critical step toward answering a question that has come down to us across 100 generations of human history — are there other planets like Earth, or are we alone in the galaxy?â€
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