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NASA's Kepler spacecraft has

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successfully completed the first year of

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its mission to search for earth-like

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planets in our galaxy to celebrate the

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occasion Kepler team members gathered it

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aims as exploration center here they

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spent the evening sharing memories the

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first years milestones and discoveries

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it's been the greatest year of my life

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we have produced so much new science we

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have found so many candidate planets so

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it's just been wonderful to see all that

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results come out of out of this mission

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zero and liftoff of the Delta two rocket

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with Kepler Kepler was launched march

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six two thousand nine from Florida's

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cape canaveral air force station with a

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dramatic night time display just a few

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weeks later on April sixteenth the first

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set of images taken by the spacecraft

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were released they showed its complete

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search area near the constellation Lyra

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the composite image of unprecedented

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detail demonstrated that all 42 CCD

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photo sensors were working as designed

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by August of 2009 Kepler's first science

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results were announced the telescope

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sensors had detected properties of the

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atmosphere around a distant planet

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called hat p7b in January of 2010

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principal investigator Bill berukhi

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revealed that Kepler had discovered five

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previously unknown planets what we're

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looking for is even more exciting

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discoveries we're now beginning to find

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the small planets the planets they're

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like Earth we still haven't gone in

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habitable zone but these are the

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discoveries that are coming in the next

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couple of years because Kepler team

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members are spread around the world the

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event was a rare opportunity to renew

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friendships and celebrate the year's

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events but they are just as excited

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about discoveries yet to come in this

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first year we've really only

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skimmed the cream Rowley just beginning

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we have so many exciting things to the

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overton so I really am starting to get

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into that mode of keno really exploring

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and discovering new worlds that were