Initial imagery from France's COROT planet finding probe suggest the spacecraft may be capable of detecting extrasolar planets equivalent in size to our own.
French space agency CNES said on May 3 that COROT (Convection, Rotation and planetary Transits), launched on Dec. 27, had provided the first image of a giant planet orbiting a star in another solar system - a yellow dwarf in the direction of the constellation Unicorn some 1,500 light years from Earth. The planet, named COROT-Exo-1b, is a gas giant with a radius 1.78 times that of Jupiter, and 1.3 times more massive, with an orbital period of 1.5 days.
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