Kepler's First Peek - Natalie Batalha (SETI Talks)

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The Kepler Mission is designed to find Earth-sized exoplanets by staring at the same star field for the entire mission and continuously and simultaneously monitoring the brightnesses of more than 100,000 stars for the life of the mission—3.5 or more years. In this way, it will determine the fraction of stars that have habitable planets - a key part of the Drake Equation. Kepler was launched on March 6th on a Delta II rocket. Dr. Batalha will talk about the first stunning results from Kepler showing the phases of the atmosphere of a known gas giant planet with incredible accuracy.

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• natalia batalha kepler
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[sbergman27]

@Ullbritt : 2010 will likely yield more hot Jupiters. The Earth-like planets will likely show up in 2012. It takes 3 transits (planetary years) to confirm a planet. So a planet exactly like Earth would take three years.

[Ullbritt]

yeah thx this is quite fantastic, cant wait to hear more on this in 2010 when they actually find the earthlike planets and can find out more about them.

[JamboyStu]

Interesting and educational.

Thanks for sharing this with us SETI