The NASA Kepler Mission
Title | The NASA Kepler Mission PDF eBook |
Author | Steve B.. Howell |
Publisher | IOP Publishing Limited |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2020-09-15 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780750322942 |
This book covers the numerous, paradigm changing scientific discoveries in exoplanets and other areas of astrophysics made possible by the NASA Kepler and K2 Missions. It is suitable for the interested layperson, pupils of science and space missions, and advanced science students and researchers.
The NASA Kepler Mission
Title | The NASA Kepler Mission PDF eBook |
Author | Howell Steve B. |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | SCIENCE |
ISBN | 9780750322959 |
The NASA Kepler and K2 missions have made fundamental, paradigm changing advances in essentially every area of astrophysics and planetary science. While known for their breakthrough discoveries in exoplanets--especially small rocky worlds orbiting in the Habitable Zone of their host suns--these missions have also continued to make numerous scientific advances in solar system science, stellar astrophysics and extragalactic astronomy. This book is devoted to the Kepler and K2 missions and covers the tremendous new discoveries made in the areas of spacecraft engineering, asteroseismology, binary and variable stars, stellar astrophysics, white dwarfs, asteroids and comets, active galaxies, supernovae, black holes, and of course exoplanets of all types. It is suitable for the interested layperson, pupils of science and space missions, and advanced science students and researchers wishing for an introduction and highly focused memoir of the NASA Kepler mission and its amazing accomplishments.
The NASA Kepler Mission
Title | The NASA Kepler Mission PDF eBook |
Author | Steve B. Howell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Milky Way |
ISBN | 9780750322966 |
01 Prelude - 02 The NASA Kepler and K2 Missions - 03 Exoplanets - 04 Stellar Astrophysics with Kepler and K2 - 05 The Solar System as Observed by K2 - 06 Extragalactic Studies from the Kepler/K2 Missions.
Exoplanet Science Strategy
Title | Exoplanet Science Strategy PDF eBook |
Author | National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 187 |
Release | 2019-01-17 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 030947941X |
The past decade has delivered remarkable discoveries in the study of exoplanets. Hand-in-hand with these advances, a theoretical understanding of the myriad of processes that dictate the formation and evolution of planets has matured, spurred on by the avalanche of unexpected discoveries. Appreciation of the factors that make a planet hospitable to life has grown in sophistication, as has understanding of the context for biosignatures, the remotely detectable aspects of a planet's atmosphere or surface that reveal the presence of life. Exoplanet Science Strategy highlights strategic priorities for large, coordinated efforts that will support the scientific goals of the broad exoplanet science community. This report outlines a strategic plan that will answer lingering questions through a combination of large, ambitious community-supported efforts and support for diverse, creative, community-driven investigator research.
Hidden in the Heavens
Title | Hidden in the Heavens PDF eBook |
Author | Jason Steffen |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2024-10-29 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 069124247X |
"This popular-level book offers an insider's account of NASA's Kepler Mission - a space telescope found nearly 1300 planets outside our solar system during its years of operation (2009-18) - including how it was conceived, operated, what it found, and how it forever changed what we know about planets in our galaxy"--
Universal Life
Title | Universal Life PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Boss |
Publisher | |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0190864052 |
The Kepler space telescope spent four years looking for Earth-like planets in our galaxy. A revolution in thinking about our place in the universe resulted. Are Earths commonplace, or rare? Are we likely to be alone in the universe? Only Kepler could answer these questions. Author Alan Boss, the Chair of NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program Analysis Group, presents what the Kepler mission found.
Continuing Kepler's Quest
Title | Continuing Kepler's Quest PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 82 |
Release | 2012-09-06 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0309261457 |
In February 2009, the commercial communications satellite Iridium 33 collided with the Russian military communications satellite Cosmos 2251. The collision, which was not the first recorded between two satellites in orbit-but the most recent and alarming-produced thousands of pieces of debris, only a small percentage of which could be tracked by sensors located around the world. In early 2007, China tested a kinetic anti-satellite weapon against one of its own satellites, which also generated substantial amounts of space debris. These collisions highlighted the importance of maintaining accurate knowledge, and the associated uncertainty, of the orbit of each object in space. These data are needed to predict close approaches of space objects and to compute the probability of collision so that owners/operators can decide whether or not to make a collision avoidance maneuver by a spacecraft with such capability. The space object catalog currently contains more than 20,000 objects, and when the planned space fence radar becomes operational this number is expected to exceed 100,000. A key task is to determine if objects might come closer to each other, an event known as "conjunction," and the probability that they might collide. The U.S. Air Force is the primary U.S. government organization tasked with maintaining the space object catalog and data on all space objects. This is a complicated task, involving collecting data from a multitude of different sensors-many of which were not specifically designed to track orbiting objects-and fusing the tracking data along with other data, such as data from atmospheric models, to provide predictions of where objects will be in the future. The Committee for the Assessment of the U.S. Air Force's Astrodynamic Standards collected data and heard from numerous people involved in developing and maintaining the current astrodynamics standards for the Air Force Space Command (AFSPC), as well as representatives of the user community, such as NASA and commercial satellite owners and operators. Preventing collisions of space objects, regardless of their ownership, is in the national security interested of the United States. Continuing Kepler's Quest makes recommendations to the AFSPC in order for it to create and expand research programs, design and develop hardware and software, as well as determine which organizations to work with to achieve its goals.