United Launch Alliance\’s Delta II launch vehicle, carrying Kepler, lifted off from Space Launch Complex 17B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday, March 6, 2009, at 10:49 PM EST.
Kepler is the first NASA mission capable of finding terrestrial exo-planets. Of particular interest are the planets orbiting in the so-called habitable zone, where conditions are met so that liquid water can exist on the surface of the planet.
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