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Newfound 'Water Worlds' Could Support Life

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Post by Lurker Fri Apr 19, 2013 3:19 am

NASA's Kepler planet-hunting probe has identified two potentially habitable planets only a little bigger than Earth, circling a star that's 1,200 light-years away. The planets could conceivably be covered by a global ocean, and they may well lead the growing list of alien worlds that can host life as we know it.
"These two planets are our best candidates for planets that might be habitable," said Bill Borucki, a space scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center who is the principal investigator for the $600 million Kepler mission.

http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/18/17811465-super-earth-search-newfound-water-worlds-could-be-just-right-for-life?lite
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