NASA's Kepler Mission was launched in March 2009 as NASA's first mission capable of finding Earth-size planets orbiting in the habitable zone of Sun-like stars, that range of distances for which liquid water would pool on the surface of a rocky planet. Kepler has discovered over 1000 planets and over 4600 candidates, many of them as small as the Earth. Today, Kepler's amazing success seems to be a fait accompli to those unfamiliar with her history. But twenty years ago, there were no planets known outside our solar system, and few people believed it was possible to detect tiny Earth-size planets orbiting other stars. Motivating NASA to select Kepler for launch required a confluence of the right detector technology, advances in signal processing and algorithms, and the power of supercomputing.


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    Titel :

    Prospecting for Habitable Planets


    Beteiligte:

    Kongress:

    KLA-Tencor Technical Seminar ; 2018 ; Milpitas, CA, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2018-03-27


    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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