Friday, March 21, 2014

drag2share: NASA's prettiest spaceship yet will take actual photos of alien worlds

Source: http://sploid.gizmodo.com/nasas-prettiest-spaceship-yet-will-take-actual-photos-1548786806/@barrett

NASA's prettiest spaceship yet will take actual photos of alien worlds

PlanetQuest is NASA's effort to search for new Earths, exoplanets like ours that would probably contain life too. They're doing some really cool stuff, like this sunflower-telescope combo spaceship—"a cutting-edge effort to take pictures of planets orbiting stars far from the sun." Imagine that—seeing the actual planets!

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