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Planet Quest

  • September 9, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

The Kepler telescope is an orbiting instrument designed to find terrestrial planets, or planets capable of supporting life like that found on Earth. It constantly scans about 100,000 stars at once, looking for small changes in the light that may indicate a planet in orbit.

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