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Kepler: NASA's First Mission Capable of Finding Earth-Size Planets

Year: 2009

Type: article

Abstract: Kepler, a NASA Discovery mission, is a spaceborne telescope designed to search a nearby region of our galaxy for Earth-size planets orbiting in the habitable zone of stars like our sun. The habitable zone is that region around a start where the temperature permits water to be liquid on the surface of a planet. Liquid water is considered essential forth existence of life. Mission Phases: Six mission phases have been defined to describe the different periods of activity during Kepler's mission. These are: launch; commissioning; early science operations, science operations: and decommissioning

Source: NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

Author: W. J. Borucki

Institution: Ames Research Center

Language: English

Topic: Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies

Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Kennedy Space Center

OpenAlex ID: W850127438

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