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April 21, 2013

NASA'S Kepler Discovers Smallest 'Habitable Zone' Planets To Date

Three Planets Considered To Be 'Super Earth' Size That Could Sustain Liquid Water

NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone," the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of an orbiting planet might be suitable for liquid water. The Kepler-62 system has five planets; 62b, 62c, 62d, 62e and 62f. The Kepler-69 system has two planets; 69b and 69c. Kepler-62e, 62f and 69c are the super-Earth-sized planets.

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