COROT Mission Completes Third Year
In a paper available online here, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) COnvection ROtation and planetary Transits (COROT) mission released a summary of its results to date. The paper also provides an excellent review of the mission and its goals, as well as its success in monitoring over 100,000 stars, and discovering some seven exoplanets. The exoplanets are reviewed and the possibilities for COROT discovering “even smaller, Earth sized planets” in its now extended mission, are discussed.