Detail Lost and Found; Planetary Science   Oleh:  [s.n] Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 407 no. 8839 (Jun. 2013), page 71. Topik: Space Telescopes; Space Exploration; Planets Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel The Kepler telescope was launched into space in 2009 to look for extrasolar planets, those that circle stars other than the sun. Since then it has spotted more than 2,700 potential alien worlds, including some that appear to be small, rocky and far enough from their stars for liquid water to exist on the surface--rather like Earth, in other words, and thus, just possibly, hospitable to life. In doing so it made "exoplanet" research one of the busiest areas of astronomy. On May 15th, the telescope's minders at NASA announced that the device was in trouble. One of the three components, known as reaction wheels, that help keep it pointing in the right direction (specifically, at a patch of stars between the constellations Lyra and Cygnus) had jammed. With its sole spare reaction wheel already damaged, things did not look good. After two weeks of trying, NASA's boffins have been unable to restore Kepler to working order. Earlier this year NASA confirmed that in 2017 it plans to launch the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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