Messages From Earth Ride on Planet-Hunting Spacecraft

Thursday, October 1, 2009 - 13:21 in Astronomy & Space

Although the main payload onboard the Kepler spacecraft consists of instruments to detect other worlds, a second package reminds anyone who may intercept the craft millennia from now of the hopes of the generation that launched it.

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