Kepler 452b – Earth’s twin
There’s nothing sweeter than home. What about an Earth-like home? A new found world, last July 23, 2015 researchers announced that a group of pioneers transported to the surface of Kepler 452b which is 1,400 light years away and it can be considered as “Earth’s Twin”.
Kepler 452b is 60 percent wider than the earth. I bet it can handle the next coming generations. Aside from that there is a probability that it is five times heavier than the earth to where the surface gravity is stronger than usual. If that’s the case I won’t ask why Mr John Grunsfeld said the following lines: “If we were there, we’d get stronger.” “Our bones would actually get stronger.
Photo by: http://www.iflscience.comMr. Grunsfeld is a former astronaut, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. What about the insights of Mr. Jon Jenkins the who is a data analysis lead for Kepler spacecraft which discovered Kepler-452b. He is from NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffety Field, California. The following statements are from Mr. Jenkins: “It might be challenging at first.” “The high -gravity environment would probably lead to significant changes in the bodies of Kepler 452b colonist over longer time spans.” “I suspect that, over time, we would adapt to the conditions, and perhaps become stockier over a long period of many generations.” “It would feel a lot like home, from the standpoint of the sunshine that you would experience.” Earth plants “would photosynthesize, “just perfectly fine. Suspicion from the researchers arise that it would be also rocky like the Earth, it has a thick atmosphere, liquid water, and active volcanoes based on the modeling work. The star that can be found there is 6 billion years older than the sun, unlike to a 4.5 billion years, It is undeniable that the star is approximately 10 percent larger and 20 percent brighter than the Earth’s sun. Lastly, Mr. Jenkins said that ” The stronger gravity of larger planets allows them to hang on to their surface water for longer periods of time in such situations than smaller worlds can.” “But,you know, we don’t know exactly.” After all, another additional information’s are given to us although with no exact accuracy but it gives an overview or idea what lies behind.
Unfortunately we wont be visiting this planet on the near future until humans can be able to make “wormholes”. To give you an idea how far Kepler 452 to Earth: New horizons satellite reach Pluto after 9.5 years at a speed of around 160,000 km/h when it leaves Earth and Pluto is only around 0.0008 light years away from us. Kepler is 1400 light years away from Earth so it is impossible to visit this planet without the breakthrough in space travel technology.