Spacecraft could continue to hunt for planets — or take on alternative tasks, such as asteroid spotting.
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05 September 2013
This article originally inflated the size of asteroids that Kepler could watch for — they would be several hundred metres in diameter rather than several hundred kilometres. The text has now been corrected.
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Cowen, R. NASA ponders Kepler’s future. Nature 501, 16–17 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/501016a
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