China new plan to find 'Earth 2.0 ET' - WION

The Chinese mission statement claimed that the transit and the microlensing telescopes will revolutionise our understandings of terrestrial planets across a large swath of orbital distances and free space.

According to reports, the Chinese  Academy of Sciences (CAS) has launched a project called Earth 2.0 ET which seeks to find a planet similar to Earth orbiting a Sun-like star. The Chinese white paper… [+1345 chars]

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