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... exoplanets -- only a handful are known to be rocky. "Astronomers are just beginning to confirm thousands of planet candidates uncovered by Kepler so far," said Doug Hudgins, Kepler program ... -based telescope measurements, the team used modeling techniques to confirm the planet discoveries. Prior to these confirmed planets, only six other planets had been confirmed using the Kepler public data. NASA& 39;s ...

... scientists believed that a precipitation of liquid methane fills Ontario Lacus. ''Jeanna Bryner, “Giant Lake Confirmed on Saturn’s Moon Titan,” Space.com, 31 July 2008, http://www.space.com/5673-giant-lake-confirmed-saturn-moon-titan.html (accessed 18 May 2011); NASA, “NASA Confirms Liquid Lake in Saturn Moon,” new release 08-193, 30 ... September 2008. ''Kenneth Chang, “Test of Mars Soil Sample Confirms Presence of Ice,” New York Times, 1 August 2008; NASA, “NASA Spacecraft Confirms Martian Water, Mission Extended,” news release 08-195, 31 ...

... research hinted at the existence of near-Earth-size planets in habitable zones, but clear confirmation proved elusive. Two other small planets orbiting stars smaller and cooler than our sun recently ... habitable zone planet candidates reported in February 2011, Kepler-22b is the first to be confirmed. This milestone will be published in The Astrophysical Journal. The Kepler team is hosting its ...

... as hot Jupiters because of their enormous size and orbits close to their stars, were confirmed. Results from Kepler data continue to expand our understanding of planets and planetary systems. Highlights from the prime mission include: -- In August 2010, scientists confirmed the discovery of the first planetary system with more than one planet transiting the same ...

... orbiting planet -- of a G2-type star, like our sun. The confirmation of Kepler-452b brings the total number of confirmed planets to 1,030. "On the 20th anniversary year of the ... , should all the necessary ingredients and conditions for life exist on this planet.” To help confirm the finding and better determine the properties of the Kepler-452 system, the team conducted ... reporting this finding has been accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal. In addition to confirming Kepler-452b, the Kepler team has increased the number of new exoplanet candidates by 521 ...

... peak. He believed it was the result of volcanic activity. However, his observations were never confirmed despite many others carefully observing the crater in later years. In October, 1963, James Greenacre ... had ever plotted a lunar feature which was not later confirmed by another observer."(3) Thus was reported the first sighting, confirmed by two observers, of a lunar transient event and, most ...

... Washington correspondent and moderator of "Face the Nation." ''RELEASE: 11-304 NASA'S Kepler DISCOVERY CONFIRMS FIRST PLANET ORBITING TWO STARS'' WASHINGTON -- The existence of a world with a double sunset ... in our galaxy. Previous research has hinted at the existence of circumbinary planets, but clear confirmation proved elusive. Kepler detected such a planet, known as Kepler -16b, by observing transits, where ...

... passage casts a small shadow toward Earth and the Kepler spacecraft. Each of the new confirmed planetary systems contains two to five closely spaced transiting planets. In tightly packed planetary systems ... verified without requiring extensive ground-based observations, accelerating confirmation of planet candidates. The TTV detection technique also increases Kepler& 39;s ability to confirm planetary systems around fainter and more distant stars ...

... using the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites. She confirmed that MODIS showed unusually high temperatures and that melt was extensive over the ice sheet ... has successfully adjusted its orbital location to be in a better position to provide prompt confirmation of the August landing of the Curiosity rover. The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft carrying ...

... Joe rocket off Wallops Island, and then, of course, you have the actual mission to confirm your original estimates. But the kind of coefficients you came up with were very different ... can't recall just exactly how. It was mainly in the environmental control system, in confirming the proposed work-arounds that Houston were coming up with: the control of the carbon ... a member of the acceptance and check-out team, Rockwell-NASA, helping to produce or confirm the satisfactory production of all the orbiters, the /Enterprise/ and the five space orbiters. I ...

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