Kepler Mission: A search for habitable planets
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Continuing Education |
| Discipline(s): |
Aerospace Engineering Engineering Mechanics |
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Reference - General |
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| Author(s): |
Alan Gould David Koch |
| Description: | NASA website for the Kepler spacecraft. Kepler was successfully launched on March 6, 2009; NASA's first mission capable of finding Earth-size and smaller planets around other stars. The Kepler Mission, NASA Discovery mission #10, is specifically designed to survey our region of the Milky Way galaxy to discover hundreds of Earth-size and smaller planets in or near the habitable zone and determine how many of the billions of stars in our galaxy have such planets. The website has images and videos from Kepler along with frequent updates. There is also an in-depth portion that goes into the technical details of the mission. Photo caption: Photo below by Jacques Amable: mosaic of 6 pictures taken between the liftoff and 120s after of the Kepler telescope on a Delta Rocket II 2009 Mar 07, Cape Canaveral, FL. We can see the light in the PAD 17, the smoke, the separation of the boosters (in red) and the Big Dipper in the sky. www.deepskyjam.com |
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| Related ABET Criteria: |
(b) Design and conduct experiments, analyze and interpret data |
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Great case for engineering dynamic or spacecraft design. Also useful for K-12 outreach. |
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Medium |
| Interactivity Level: |
Low |
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| Publication Date: | May 2009 |
| Platform/Format: |
WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://kepler.nasa.gov/ |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
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