Kepler Mission uses a NASA space telescope of Earth-like planets orbiting other stars. This mission launches date March 07, 2009. And time 03:49:47.465UTC. Kepler Mission Launch Form Space Launch Complex 17-B Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. This Mission time taken: 3.5 Years, 6 months and 11 days.
The mission named in honor of German astronomer Johannes Kepler. Kepler will use a photometer incessantly monitor the intensity of more than 1,00,000 stars in a fixed filed of view. This project administer by Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The importance of investigating the planet:
Kepler Mission is purposely designed to gather the extended solar neighborhood to detect and typify hundreds of terrestrial and larger planets in or near the habitable zone and make significant progress and the great leap in our understanding of planetary systems. The results will provide a broad understanding of planet formation, the regularity of the arrangement, structure of individual planetary systems and generic characteristics of stars with terrestrial planets.
Probable Results:
This mission works a census of planets with periods form days to a little year.
About 50 planets if most have radii about equal to the Earth (R ~ 1.0 R ?)
About 185 planets if most have R ~ 1.3 R ?
About 640 planets if most have R ~ 2.2 R ?
