KEPLER SPACE TELESCOPE

Image 1: Artist's concept of the Kepler Space Telescope. The Kepler Mission is specifically designed to survey our area of the Milky Way Galaxy to detect and characterize hundreds of Earth-size and larger planets in or near the habitable zone. Image Credit: NASA/ARC More Information: Kepler mission home page Image 2: Image of the Kepler primary mirror processing. The proposed launch date is June 2008. Image Credit: NASA/ARC More Information: NASA Discovery Missions