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Kepler Missions
Kepler Missions
Exoplanets:
Key Science
Results from the
Kepler Mission
Jon M. Jenkins
SETI Institute/NASA Ames Research Center
Thursday September 22, 2011
SAO STScI
Do there exist many worlds or is there but a single one? This is one of the most noble
and exalted questions in the study of Nature
Jupiter:
Jupiter
Neptune
Earth
Kepler Candidates as of June 2010
Jupiter
Neptune
Earth
Kepler Candidates as of February 1, 2011
Jupiter
Neptune
Earth
Kepler Candidates as of February 1, 2011
Jupiter
Neptune
Earth
Kepler-11: Simply Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Kepler: Big Data, Big Challenges
Big Data:
>150,000 target stars
6x106 pixels collected and stored per ½ hour
~40 GB downlinked each month
>40×109 points in the time series over 3.5 years