{"id":26108,"date":"2009-03-05T20:49:02","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T20:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/03\/05\/kepler-launches-tomorrow-frida\/"},"modified":"2009-03-05T20:49:02","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T20:49:02","slug":"kepler-launches-tomorrow-frida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/05\/kepler-launches-tomorrow-frida\/","title":{"rendered":"Kepler Launches Tomorrow (Friday)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0mFRLCCMmjY&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NASA&#8217;s planet-hunting space telescope Kepler is slated to launch the night of March 6 from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission to find Earth-sized planets that could have liquid water at the surface and potentially harbor life. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not just another science mission. This one has historical significance built into it,&#8221; said Ed Weiler of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA headquarters. &#8220;It very possibly could tell us that earths are very, very common, that we&#8217;ve got lots of neighbors out there. Or it could tell us that Earths are really, really, really rare.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2009\/03\/keplerlaunch.html\">More here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s planet-hunting space telescope Kepler is slated to launch the night of March 6 from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission to find Earth-sized planets that could have liquid water at the surface and potentially harbor life. &#8220;It&#8217;s not just another science mission. This one has historical significance built into it,&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/05\/kepler-launches-tomorrow-frida\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kepler Launches Tomorrow (Friday)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6N6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}