Dr. Jon Jenkins, head of the Data Analysis team on the Kepler Mission, will discuss the current status of the Kepler mission and the ailing spacecraft, and will also discuss the recently selected TESS Mission, which will follow on from Kepler in detecting planets by observing the dimming of starlight as planets pass in front of the parent star.
The Once and Future Kepler
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Date
Tuesday, June 11 2013 - 12:00 pm, PDT
Speaker
Jon Jenkins
Affiliation
SETI Institute
Description
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