SOSC 1000 Chapter Notes -Ames Research Center, Jack J. Lissauer
31 Mar 2014
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Several years ago, the research team and the scientist were astonished from the discovery of one new planet made by nasa"s kepler spacecraft, research team who is co led by. Since that was not enough, recently the team announced that the kepler spacecraft has discovered a whopping 715 new planets, opening up. Nasa is using a spacecraft called kepler, whose main goal is to look for extra celestial bodies that may be lurking in outer space. Lissauer and his team came up with a technique known as verification by multiplicity which goes in hand with the probability. By using this technique kepler found 715 planets orbiting 315 stars. Dr. tony, 2014) from those planets, the researcher do not really know what the surface may be made of, it may be either completely solid or may be composed of gases or may be similar to our home planet.
