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Kepler spacecraft

author: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ Ball/Novapix

reference: e-sou01-49201

Image Size 300 DPI: 20 * 30 cm

NASA's Kepler spacecraft in a clean room at Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colorado. Kepler is a spaceborne telescope launched in march 2009 and designed to search the nearby region of our galaxy for Earth-size planets orbiting in the habitable zone of stars like our sun.

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2008 - 2009 - ARTIFICIAL SATELLITE - ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITE - ASTRONOMY - EXOPLANET - EXTRASOLAR PLANET - KEPLER - MAN - PERSON - PREPARATION - SPACE -