The NASA Kepler Mission

This book covers the numerous, paradigm changing scientific discoveries in exoplanets and other areas of astrophysics made possible by the NASA Kepler and K2 Missions. It is suitable for the interested layperson, pupils of science and space missions, and advanced science students and researchers.

About the author

Steve B Howell is a senior research scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. He was formerly the head of the Space Science and Astrobiology Division and the project scientist for NASA's premier exoplanet finding missions: Kepler and K2. Howell has written more than 800 scientific publications, numerous popular and technical articles, and has authored and edited 10 books on astronomy and astronomical instrumentation.

Product details

• Authors: Steve B. Howell
• Assisted by: Steve B. (NASA Ames Research Center Howell (Editor)
• Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2020
• EAN: 9780750322942
• ISBN: 978-0-7503-2294-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 691 g
• Illustrations: With figures in colour and in black and white
• Series: AAS-IOP Astronomy
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy