May 13, 2013

Twelve hundred light years from Earth, we're deep in the Kepler 62 star system, closing in on Kepler 62f, a planet remarkably similar to Earth in size and in its position well within the habitable zone of its star. We've found no evidence of intelligent life, but there's no doubt there are living forms on this planet –- its land masses, at least, are covered with plant-like organisms which in some ways resemble ones on Earth, but in other ways are very different. By the end of this Earth month we hope to land and get a close-up look at them.