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Distant Planet Imaging Project Gets More Funding
It doesn't come easy writes "NASA's Institute for Advanced Concepts has chosen a proposal by the University of Colorado (UC) at Boulder to image distant planets around other stars for a second round of funding. Known as the New Worlds Observer, the UC project is for an orbiting, soccer-field sized "starshade" shaped like a daisy that would funnel light from distant planets between its petals to a second spacecraft trailing 50,000 miles behind. If the concept proves feasible, it could 'identify planetary features like oceans, continents, polar caps and cloud banks, and even detect biomarkers like methane, water, oxygen and ozone [...]'"
Not posting this anonymous despite the hit it may take:
Go through CyricZ's post history. You'll find it chock full of vague refernces to things that he has absolutely no idea about. Yet 9 times out of 10 it gets modded insightful. He takes a holier-than-thou approach despite the fact that he truly hasn't a clue.
Yet karma +2. Says a lot about Slashdot.
(ofcourse my karma is absolutely deserved )
See my journal for slashdot ID's by year. Mine created in 2005. http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year