Kepler
has fulfilled the first part of its mission, prove capable of finding Earth's twin. The information provided by this satellite are looking smaller habitable planets with his telescope NASA serve to confirm the discovery of Kepler-10b, a planet only 40% higher than ours.
The purpose of this mission is to locate terraqueous sized exoplanets thanks to a sophisticated light meter that is able to see when a planet crosses in front of a star, only to detect a slight reduction in the light that radiates.
This device has ultra-10b Kepler found in only eight months because it is close to its star and completes one orbit around it every 20 hours, which helps greatly to foreign exchange. More complicated is to find planets like Earth around its star once every 365 days.
Because the planet discovered by NASA terraqueous dimensions, but it is far from offering their comfort: so close to the star Kepler-10 to daily temperature of its surface easily surpasses the thousand degrees Celsius.
"It melted into a ball," sums up Mercedes López-Morales, an astrophysicist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. This CSIC researcher dares to venture to the end of 2012 or early 2013, Kepler will begin to find planets like Earth, reasonably away from the hot sun. "With data from eight months has shown that it has the sensitivity to detect small planets. When you have information gathered during three years may begin to detect planets with transits over," said López-Morales.
investigator Institut de Ciències de l'Espai Ignasi Ribas is optimistic for this "good prelude." "Although we have not yet arrived, is a very important step towards the holy grail that we're looking for, the Earth's twin," said Ribas. He believes, are finding "the planets easy quotes, those with small orbits, but the discovery of a habitable planet" is still far away. "Among other things, because although Kepler do its job currencies, the confirmation should arrive yet technologically observations can be made from Earth.
Controversial French-NASA says the new planet is the smallest found beyond the solar system and also the first test has "solid" to be rocky. A statement that has angered his fellow Gauls much of the French Space Agency, who led the discovery of Corot-7b. so far considered this planet found in February 2009 as the first terrestrial material compound, but NASA is now trying to detract from the consistency of evidence supporting it.
"The discovery of Corot-7b is solid, and Kepler-10b reinforces the existence of such planets," says a French Public AnnieBaglin, head of the Corot mission. "They're trying to minimize our finding advantage of our scientific spirit, which is only to confirm their best each discovery. The characteristics of the star facilitate their detection, but that does not mean that Corot-7b is not confirmed!" Spits Baglin .
The purpose of this mission is to locate terraqueous sized exoplanets thanks to a sophisticated light meter that is able to see when a planet crosses in front of a star, only to detect a slight reduction in the light that radiates.
This device has ultra-10b Kepler found in only eight months because it is close to its star and completes one orbit around it every 20 hours, which helps greatly to foreign exchange. More complicated is to find planets like Earth around its star once every 365 days.
Because the planet discovered by NASA terraqueous dimensions, but it is far from offering their comfort: so close to the star Kepler-10 to daily temperature of its surface easily surpasses the thousand degrees Celsius.
"It melted into a ball," sums up Mercedes López-Morales, an astrophysicist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. This CSIC researcher dares to venture to the end of 2012 or early 2013, Kepler will begin to find planets like Earth, reasonably away from the hot sun. "With data from eight months has shown that it has the sensitivity to detect small planets. When you have information gathered during three years may begin to detect planets with transits over," said López-Morales.
investigator Institut de Ciències de l'Espai Ignasi Ribas is optimistic for this "good prelude." "Although we have not yet arrived, is a very important step towards the holy grail that we're looking for, the Earth's twin," said Ribas. He believes, are finding "the planets easy quotes, those with small orbits, but the discovery of a habitable planet" is still far away. "Among other things, because although Kepler do its job currencies, the confirmation should arrive yet technologically observations can be made from Earth.
Controversial French-NASA says the new planet is the smallest found beyond the solar system and also the first test has "solid" to be rocky. A statement that has angered his fellow Gauls much of the French Space Agency, who led the discovery of Corot-7b. so far considered this planet found in February 2009 as the first terrestrial material compound, but NASA is now trying to detract from the consistency of evidence supporting it.
"The discovery of Corot-7b is solid, and Kepler-10b reinforces the existence of such planets," says a French Public AnnieBaglin, head of the Corot mission. "They're trying to minimize our finding advantage of our scientific spirit, which is only to confirm their best each discovery. The characteristics of the star facilitate their detection, but that does not mean that Corot-7b is not confirmed!" Spits Baglin .
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