HTTP:: Kepler Carries Human Messages into Space
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The Kepler Space Telescope, launched earlier this year, is, arguably, one of the best telescopes in the world today, especially when it comes to detecting small exoplanets around other stars. Its mirrors are high-tech enough to observe periodical variations in a star's brightness, which may only be caused by a planet or comet moving in front of it. But, as mission controllers reveal, scientific instruments are not the only payload aboard the observatory. A DVD containing tens of thousands of messages, from average people all around the world, is also attached to Kepler, and it is meant to be a reminder for whoever finds the telescope millennia from now of this generation's hopes and dreams. A significant number of those who have left messages for this project have expressed their doubts about the Kepler actually finding other inhabitable worlds among the stars. Certainly, they say, other exoplanets will be revealed, as the 400 discovered until now have been. But the odds o!
f finding one that can sustain life as we know it are very small. Other participants have been more optimistic, and have expressed their excitement about this mission, which is the first-ever telescope to be launched with the specific goal of finding other planets, Space reports. “If Kepler finds many terrestrial-style planets we can ...
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