Kepler Spacecraft Blasts Off to Hunt Earth-Like Worlds# Aviation - 航空航天
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NASA's new planet-hunting Kepler telescope launched into space late Friday,
lighting up the night sky above Florida as it began an ambitious mission to
seek out Earth-like planets around alien stars.
Kepler blasted off atop a Delta 2 rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force
Station in Florida at 10:49 p.m. EST (0349 March 7 GMT). The $600 million
spacecraft will gaze at a single region of our Milky Way galaxy for at least
three years in a planetary census that, scientists say, could fundamentall
lighting up the night sky above Florida as it began an ambitious mission to
seek out Earth-like planets around alien stars.
Kepler blasted off atop a Delta 2 rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force
Station in Florida at 10:49 p.m. EST (0349 March 7 GMT). The $600 million
spacecraft will gaze at a single region of our Milky Way galaxy for at least
three years in a planetary census that, scientists say, could fundamentall