04-11-2016, 06:22 AM
Kepler is back online! Scientists have not determined what caused the spacecraft to go into Emergency Mode, but one non-scientist suggested it may have entered into an uncharted and newly constructed Black Roundabout Hole. After circling the cosmic interchange for several days, it has now safely emerged:
While it’s certainly good news to have Kepler back among the living, its brief sojourn into darkness may yet have lasting effects. For now Kepler is back in its lowest fuel-burning mode, while NASA performs checks on the spacecraft to see if its ready to shift back into Science Mode.
http://gizmodo.com/nasa-just-recovered-i...1770284600
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While it’s certainly good news to have Kepler back among the living, its brief sojourn into darkness may yet have lasting effects. For now Kepler is back in its lowest fuel-burning mode, while NASA performs checks on the spacecraft to see if its ready to shift back into Science Mode.
http://gizmodo.com/nasa-just-recovered-i...1770284600
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." -Annie Dillard
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