Launchpad: Kepler
Join NASA on the Kepler Mission as this traveling telescope images the light from faraway stars to locate Earth-sized and smaller planets. Using the transit method, the Kepler telescope measures the brightness of a star and uses the data to predict habitable zones.
Background Information
Grades 6 through 8
- Kepler Mission: A search for habitable planets Classroom Activities on Planet Finding
Grades 9 through 12
- NASA Kepler Videos
- NASA Kepler: A Search for Potentially Habitable Planets
- NASA NASA Kepler Mission Education
- University of California, Berkeley Kepler Star Wheels
Activities
Grades 9 through 12
- Astronomical Society of the Pacific Kepler Mission: A First Step Toward Finding Other Earths
- NASA Extreme Planet Makeover
- NASA Eyes on the Exoplanets
- NASA Kepler 3D Model
- NASA Transit Tracks
Mathematics
Grades 9 through 12
- NASA Space Math Kepler: The hunt for Earth-like planets
- NASA GSFC Space Math IX
- NASA Space Math Kepler Spies Five New Planets
- NASA Space Math Kepler's First Look at 700 Transiting Planets