Tracing the planet like the earth

The first mission to find the planet of human life like the earth was launched yesterday, starting the journey lasting 2 and a half years.

The unmanned Corot satellite worth £ 50 million has a telescope with a 30-cm-wide mirror to track 120,000 stars in the galaxy.

Corot satellites are launched from Soyuz missiles.(Photo: AFP)

Astronomer Malcolm Fridlund of the European Space Center said: "This will change the way mankind sees himself, because we will find out whether we are alone in this universe. Here. just the beginning of the journey ".

More than 200 other worlds that exist outside our solar system are known - but they are giant gas spheres that cannot be lived, such as Jupiter.

Mission scientist Ian Roxburgh at Queen Mary University in London, UK, said: "Corot will be able to find much smaller planets than ever before - double the size. land".

"The small worlds will have as much rock as our planet, and if at a suitable distance from the parent planet, that place will be able to live."

Corot was launched from Russia's Soyuz rocket from Baikonur space airport in Kazakhstan. It will fly 828.8 km out of the world within 2.5 years and will track 5 areas in the sky every 6 months to learn about the change in appearance.

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