SETI's Allen Telescope Array Resumes Listening Duties

摘要

After hibernating for more than seven months, a set of radio telescopes run by the SETI Institute has once again begun listening for signals from the many alien planet candidates discovered by NASA's Kepler space telescope, researchers announced Dec. 5. "This morning, at 6:18, we began re-observing the Kepler worlds," Jill Tarter, director of the Center for SETI Research at the SETI Institute, said during the Kepler Science Conference at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. "We're just extremely excited to be back on the air today." SETI's Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is a set of 42 radio dishes located about 500 kilometers northeast of San Francisco.