The Kepler Mission is a space mission designed to detect and characterize hundreds of Earth-size planets in the Habitable Zone of a wide variety of stars. The method will look for periodic dimming caused by transits of planets in front of their stars.

K e p l e r m i s s i o n . c o m Kepler Mission A first space mission to find Earth-size planets. This is a personal webpage of NASA's KeplerMission, created by Margus H im. Main page Characteristics Illustrations First Words: Scheduled for launch in sometime 2007 (may change in the future), the Kepler Mission will use a unique spaceborne photometer specifically designed to search for ...