NASA NTRS · 20120004201
Kepler Mission Development Challenges and Early Results
Abstract
Kepler is NASA s first mission capable of detecting Earthsize planets orbiting in Habitable Zone of Sun-like stars. Objective is to measure how frequently planets of various sizes and orbits form around stars in the Milky Way. Kepler detects planets by measuring drop in brightness of star due to "transit" of a planet Earth-size planet transiting Sunlike star causes drop in brightness of only 84 parts per million
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Fanson, James, Frerking, Margaret, Duren, Riley. 2011-03-05. Kepler Mission Development Challenges and Early Results. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20120004201
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