Kepler Mission's field of view,diagram. NASA's Kepler Mission is designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars. A 0.95 metre diameter telescope called a photometer will scan 100,000 stars in the Milky Way for evidence of Earth-sized terrestrial planets that transit the star's path. This is an example of how it analyses a targeted star field. The mission was launched on March 7th,2009,and will orbit the Sun for at least 3.5 years. The mission is named in honour of German astronomer Johannes Kepler | |
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