French-Led Mission To Search for Terrestrial Extra-solar Planets

Credit: CNES
Scientists may soon get a glimpse of the first terrestrial planets beyond our Solar System, thanks to a European mission launched last week. The Corot mission was orbited from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Dec. 27 atop an Arianespace/Starsem Soyuz 2.1b booster--the first time this more...

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