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The Kepler Mission Scientist: Part 2
Season 1 · Episode 2

The Kepler Mission Scientist: Part 2

Shirtloads of Science · Karl Kruszelnicki

October 30, 201620m 39s

Show Notes

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.