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 |  Subject: Today! NASA To Announce Discovery... Have They Found A Twin Earth?  Thu Apr 17, 2014 6:43 am | |
|  Today! NASA To Announce Discovery... Have They Found A Twin Earth?
NASA will host a news teleconference at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) Thursday, April 17, to announce a new discovery made by its planet-hunting mission, the Kepler Space Telescope. The journal Science has embargoed the findings until the time of the news conference, but the officials participating in the announcement could be suggestive, including Douglas Hudgins, exoplanet exploration program scientist, NASA's Astrophysics Division in Washington, Elisa Quintana, research scientist, SETI Institute at NASA's Ames Research Centerin Moffett Field, Calif, and Victoria Meadows, professor of astronomy at the University of Washington, Seattle, and principal investigator for the Virtual Planetary Laboratory, a team in the NASA Astrobiology Institute at Ames. Launched in March 2009, Kepler is the first NASA mission capable of finding Earth-size planets in or near the habitable zone -- the range of distance from a star in which the surface temperature of an orbiting planet might sustain liquid water. The telescope has since detected planets and planet candidates spanning a wide range of sizes and orbital distances, including those in the habitable zone. |
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