Pavel + 384 PP April 12, 2018 NASA has a planet hunter to research a new world. Scientists expect Tess to find thousands of exoplanets — the term for planets outside our solar system. Tess (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) is the heir apparent to the wildly successful Kepler Space Telescope , the pioneer of planetary census. Kepler’s fuel tank is running precariously low after nine years of flight, and NASA expects it to shut down within several months. Still on the lookout from on high, Kepler alone has discovered more than 2,600 confirmed exoplanets. About 50 are believed to potentially habitable. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Petar + 76 PP April 12, 2018 What if it find a extraterrestrial civilization? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
franco + 96 FM April 12, 2018 Who knows, everything is possible. Good - we might be in need of a new one before too long! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pinto + 293 PZ April 12, 2018 The Earth is flat Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
damirUSBiH + 327 DD April 12, 2018 Many people thinks that everything NASA does is a fake reality. A distraction method for mass. CGI, Green screens, a ship on a pool, a not real Earth pics, just a Blue Marble Photoshop Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jpZelabal + 63 jj April 12, 2018 What's the point of Tess ? The nearest exo-planet is 20 light year away ? It would take 40000 years to get there ? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
franco + 96 FM April 12, 2018 19 minutes ago, Pavel said: Looks like a flying megaphone Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ThunderBlade + 231 TB April 12, 2018 Anniversary. On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, made history at the age of 27 by completing a single orbit of Earth in approximately 108 minutes. After more than 50 years, Gagarin’s journey is still regarded as a key moment in space history that paved the way for all future space endeavors that followed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites