Images to be used in relation to the present Press Release

For questions please email: hans@phys.au.dk

All images and links can be found via: http://astro.phys.au.dk/KASC/im2009

Kepler is a NASA Discovery mission. NASA's Ames Research Center is the home organization of the Science Principal Investigator and is responsible for the ground system development, mission operations and science data analysis. Kepler mission development is managed by JPL. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo., is responsible for developing the Kepler flight system and supporting mission operations. More information about the Kepler mission is at http://www.nasa.gov/kepler

More images via: http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/search.cfm?cat=194

Kepler Images and animations: http://kepler.nasa.gov/media

http://kepler.nasa.gov/media/animations.html

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/L-14-press-conference.html

Kepler Presskit: http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/314268main_Kepler_presskit_2-19_print.pdf

November 2008: As dawn lights the sky on Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the first stage of the Delta 2 launch vehicle that will carry the Kepler spacecraft into orbit waits for the installation of the final solid rocket boosters.

Details: http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=38253

December 2008: On Complex 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the second stage of the Delta 2 rocket for the launch of NASA's Kepler spacecraft is moved inside the mobile service tower. Details: http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=38875

Janaury 2009: NASA's Kepler spacecraft that will be launched in March aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket. Details: http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=39501

February 2009: At the Hazardous Processing Facility at Astrotech in Titusville, Florida, a scale on the crane is moved into place above the Kepler spacecraft. The spacecraft will be lifted and weighed. Details: http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=39687

The area in the sky where Kepler will observe 170,000 stars simultaneously and continuously for a period of 3.5 years.

Details: http://kepler.nasa.gov/sci/basis/images/MilkyWay+FOV-CRoberts%20copy.jpg

and http://kepler.nasa.gov/media/art.html

Mission Logo at:

http://kepler.nasa.gov/media/images/Kepler_logo_transp.jpg

The Kepler Target Region in Milky Way (the part of our galaxy that will contain the stars observed by the Kepler Spacecraft). Details at: http://kepler.nasa.gov/media/images/LombergA1600.jpg

The Kepler Spacecraft in orbit around the Sun. Kepler will be able to determine if a planet orbiting a given star passes in front of the star. Such an event will cause the observed brightness to decrease a tiny fraction.

Details at: http://kepler.nasa.gov/media/images/Kepler+bkgdHR.jpg

An oscillating star (standing sound waves) is illustrated at left. With periods from minutes to months a given star will oscillate and change its brightness periodically. A star will oscillate in several periods simultaneously and through mathematical analysis the Kepler scientists will construct a diagram where all the individual periods can be measured from the measurements of brightness variations over the length of the Kepler mission. Such a diagram is shown at right for our own Sun and for another star. As can be seen the periods of oscillations are different for the two stars reflecting the different size, age and structure of those stars.

Check http://astro.phys.au.dk/KASC/seismology for more details.

Oscillations (standing sound waves) in the Sun will if we speed them up 100,000 times have frequencies that we are able to listen to. Real sound data from the Sun (speeded up by a factor of 100,000) may be found via the BiSON webpage: http://bison.ph.bham.ac.uk/sounds/wideband.wav

More details at: http://bison.ph.bham.ac.uk/sounds/solarsounds.html

More animations, images and information via:

Kennedy Space Center: http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/search.cfm?cat=194

Kepler: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/main/index.html

Kepler: http://kepler.nasa.gov/

Images and animations: http://kepler.nasa.gov/media

http://kepler.nasa.gov/media/animations.html

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/L-14-press-conference.html

Kepler Presskit: http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/314268main_Kepler_presskit_2-19_print.pdf

Asteroseismology: http://astro.phys.au.dk/KASC/seismology/

KASC: http://astro.phys.au.dk/KASC

The sound of the Sun: http://bison.ph.bham.ac.uk/sounds/wideband.wav

http://bison.ph.bham.ac.uk/sounds/solarsounds.html

More links: http://astro.phys.au.dk/KASC/Links.htm

Follow the launch of Kepler via:

NASA TV: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv

NASA TV DIGITAL: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/digital.html