STScI Joins the Search for Other Earths in Space
The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md., is partnering
on a historic search for Earth-size planets around other stars. STScI is the data
archive center for NASA's Kepler mission, a spacecraft that is undertaking a
survey for Earth-size planets in our region of the galaxy. The spacecraft sent its
first raw science data to STScI on June 19. The Institute's role is to convert the raw
science data into files that can be analyzed by Kepler researchers and to store the files
every three months in an archive.
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