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NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Designed to Detect Earth-size Planets
NASA's new Kepler spacecraft will greatly expand the quest for planets orbiting stars - not just giant, Jupiter-size planets -- but smaller, Earth-size worlds that might well contain liquid water, and so could harbor life.
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Kepler
Kepler is a special purpose space mission in the NASA Headquarters Discovery Program for detecting terrestrial planets, that is, rocky and Earth-size around other stars.
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Kepler Briefing for News Media
Images taken April 12, 2006, at briefing for news media during the second day of the two-day Kepler science meeting at the SETI Institute, Mountain View, Calif.
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Kepler Artist Composites
Kepler mission artist composites.
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Kepler mission sensors at NASA Ames Research Center.
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