RocketSTEM Issue #7 - May 2014 | Page 16

Using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have disorbiting a star in the “habitable - en, 13 and 22 days, respectively, - - - they are all at least 40 percent - every 130 days and receives one- Division director at the agency’s and the James Webb Space Telescope, will discover the nearest their composition and atmospher- is known, its mass and composi- their chemical compositions. The Kepler Space Telescope, which star at high noon is only as bright does not mean we know this planon the planet is strongly depenclay, research scientist at the Bay sion operations, and science data managed Kepler mission development. Ball Aerospace & Technolo- and Space Physics at the Univerin Baltimore archives, hosts and Kepler is NASA’s 10th Discovery agency’s Science Mission Directorate. be rocky. many properties that resemble ets with characteristics that mimic - 14 14 Kepler-186b, Kepler-186c, Ke- - Kepler mission, visit: www.nasa. gov/kepler. www.RocketSTEM .org