Kepler Mission |
Kepler Mission |
Sep 24 2005, 04:23 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 147 Joined: 3-July 04 From: Chicago, IL Member No.: 91 |
This NASA Discovery mission is to be launched in June 2008 and will search for Earth-size and smaller planets. Launch was originally scheduled in 2007 but delayed by 8 months due to "funding constraints".
Here's the official web site: http://www.kepler.arc.nasa.gov/ |
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Oct 31 2018, 01:32 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
One of the greatest revelations in human history is the fact that, indeed, endless worlds beckon. For generations people were labeled insane or as hopeless dreamers for even harboring the thought.
Dreamers--yes. But dreams can be made real by those who dare, as our eyes open here in our cradle. That is the true legacy of this mission and the people who made it happen. Thank you, Kepler team. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Oct 31 2018, 01:23 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2530 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 321 |
If you get a clear night after sunset this month, you may find Vega and Deneb in the high-to-western part of the sky and between them, give a thought to the Kepler field, where >150K stars were stared at for four years, and where most known exoplanets currently lie.
Kepler was a mission of firsts like few between it, and there's no way to summarize all those firsts briefly. Suffice it to say that thousands of new worlds were discovered. It also gave us a definitive answer about the frequency of earth-sized planets getting earth-like warming from their stars (about 0.5 per red dwarf and about 0.125 per sunlike star). That was all in a pinch under a decade (launched March 2009). Cheers, Kepler and Kepler team! |
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