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


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    Titel :

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


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    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2009-02-18


    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch


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