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Figure caption: First image from the Kepler spacecraft!
Taken 2009 Apr 09,
this image contains approximately 4.5 million stars. Kepler will observe
100,000 of these to search for an Earth-like planet.
[credit: NASA Mission News: Kepler:
NASA's Kepler Captures First Views of Planet-Hunting Territory
].
Figure caption: Saturn's moon Enceladus is shown on the left, with the
"tiger stripes" region near the south pole. The two other panels show plumes
of ice ejected from the tiger stripes region. The geyser plumes are thought to
originate from pressurized subsurface reservoirs of liquid water. [credit:
NASA/JPL Cassini Mission]
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Some good references for this course
Course poster in .jpeg format (note
classroom location & time are no longer correct)
The last major update of this page was on 2009
Apr 22.