This artist's view shows the COROT satellite, consisting of a 30-centimetre space telescope to be launched in late 2006. Credit: CNES 2006 - D. Ducros. A telescope designed to find earth-like planets outside our solar system was launched on a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome inside the country of Kazakhstan . The project, which is known as COROT or COnvection ROtation and planetary Transits, is led by the French. The telescope will remain in space for at least 2 years to hunt down and find other planets. The telescope will begin to first monitor the Milky Way . After approximately 150 days of monitoring, the telescope will then begin to watch the constellation Orion . Every 150 days the telescope is expected to monitor a new area of space. The COROT Telescope. Credit: CNES. "These create a 'starquake' that sends ripples across the star’s surface, altering its brightness. The exact nature of the ripples allows astronomers to calculate the star’s precise mass, age and chemical composition," said a European Space Agency spokesman.
This artist's view shows the COROT satellite, consisting of a 30-centimetre space telescope to be launched in late 2006. Credit: CNES 2006 - D. Ducros. A telescope designed to find earth-like planets outside our solar system was launched on a from inside the country of . The project, which is known as or COnvection ROtation and planetary Transits, is led by the French. The telescope will remain in space for at least 2 years to hunt down and find other planets. The telescope will begin to first monitor the . After approximately 150 days of monitoring, the telescope will then begin to watch the constellation . Every 150 days the telescope is expected to monitor a new area of space. The COROT Telescope. Credit: CNES. "These create a 'starquake' that sends ripples across the star’s surface, altering its brightness. The exact nature of the ripples allows astronomers to calculate the star’s precise mass, age and chemical composition," said a spokesman.
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