Shirtloads of Science
Shirtloads of Science
Dr Karl Kruszelnicki
The Kepler Mission Scientist: Part 2
20 minutes Posted Oct 30, 2016 at 4:33 am.
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Part Two reveals what happened when one, and then two (!!) of the Kepler Spacecraft reaction wheels went to lunch, how the news almost drove Dr Karl to whiskey, and how the engineers found a brilliant solution and continued on with Kepler Mission 2. A jaw-dropping discussion about the discoveries made, including potentially habitable earth-sized planets, the inconstancy of stars, and the probability of finding evidence of life beyond planet Earth.