COLLECTION NAME:
Ames Image Gallery
Record
Title:
Kepler Spacecraft Arrives
Creator:
NASA
Description:
In a clean room at the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., workers prepare to rotate NASA's Kepler spacecraft before it is uncovered and prepared for initial testing. A NASA Discovery mission, Kepler is specifically designed to survey our region of the Milky Way galaxy to discover hundreds of Earth-size and smaller planets in or near the habitable zone and determine how many of the billions of stars in our galaxy have such planets. After processing at Astrotech, Kepler will be transported to its launch pad at Cape Canaveral where it will be launched atop a Delta II rocket. Image credit: NASA/Chris Rhodes Jan. 6, 2009
Date:
1/7/09
Identifier:
300732main_kepler-lg_full
MediaType:
Image
Year:
2009
What:
Discovery
What:
Earth
Where:
Milky Way Galaxy
Collection Name:
Ames Image Gallery
