Search begins for ‘Earth’ beyond solar system
A European spacecraft took off today to spearhead the search for another “Earth” among the stars.The Corot space telescope blasted off aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan shortly after 2.20pm.
Corot, short for convection rotation and planetary transits, is the first instrument capable of finding small rocky planets beyond the solar [...]
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