Kepler Mission to find earth-size habitable planets

Q.  What is the aim of the Kepler mission?
- Published on 08 Jun 16

a. Study Pluto
b. Discover new planets
c. Discover Earth-size planets
d. Study and observe rings of Saturn

ANSWER: Discover Earth-size planets
 
  • Kepler is a space observatory launched by NASA to discover Earth-size planets orbiting other stars.
  • The spacecraft, named after the Renaissance astronomer Johannes Kepler.
  • Designed to survey a portion of our region of the Milky Way to discover Earth-size exoplanets in or near habitable zones and estimate how many of the billions of stars in the Milky Way have such planets, Kepler's sole science instrument is a photometer that continually monitors the brightness of over 145,000 main sequence stars in a fixed field of view.

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