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NASA approves two-year mission for planet-hunting Kepler telescope

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By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. (Reuters) – NASA plans to revive its planet-hunting Kepler space telescope for a new mission after a positioning system problem sidelined the observatory last year, officials said on Friday. The telescope was launched in 2009 to search for Earth-sized planets suitably positioned around their parent stars for liquid water, a condition believed necessary for life. Kepler scientists are still analyzing data to find a true Earth analog but already […] Reported by Raw Story 36 minutes ago.

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