NASA Hosts Media Teleconference to Announce Latest Kepler Discoveries
NASA Kepler Teleconference: 1 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014.
From the post:
NASA will host a news teleconference at 1 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Feb. 26, to announce new discoveries made by its planet-hunting mission, the Kepler Space Telescope.
The briefing participants are:
— Douglas Hudgins, exoplanet exploration program scientist, NASA’s Astrophysics Division in Washington
— Jack Lissauer, planetary scientist, NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
— Jason Rowe, research scientist, SETI Institute, Mountain View, Calif.
— Sara Seager, professor of planetary science and physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
Launched in March 2009, Kepler was the first NASA mission to find Earth-size planets in or near the habitable zone — the range of distance from a star in which the surface temperature of an orbiting planet might sustain liquid water. The telescope has since detected planets and planet candidates spanning a wide range of sizes and orbital distances. These findings have led to a better understanding of our place in the galaxy.
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The public is invited to listen to the teleconference live via UStream, at: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-arc
Questions can be submitted on Twitter using the hashtag #AskNASA.
Audio of the teleconference also will be streamed live at: http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio
A link to relevant graphics will be posted at the start of the teleconference on NASA’s Kepler site: http://www.nasa.gov/kepler
If you aren’t mining Kepler data, this may be the inspiration to get you started!
Someone is going to discover a planet of the right size in the “Goldilocks zone.” It won’t be you for sure if you don’t try.
That would make nice bullet on your data scientist resume: Discovered first Earth sized planet in Goldilocks zone….