Animations -||- Movie clips

	Video-Podcast Overview of Kepler mission		Med-res (122 Mb)	Low-res (50 Mb)	Text
JPL podcast	Kepler: Are There Other Earths Out There?
Animations	(by Dana Berry —without sound*)
	The Optical Path in the Kepler Photometer	Fullscreen (1.7 Mb mp4)	Med-res (11 Mb .avi)	Low-res (7 Mb .mov)
	Kepler Field of View	Fullscreen (14 Mb)	Med-res (5 Mb)	Low-res (3 Mb)	Text
	View of the Galaxy	Fullscreen (28 Mb)	Med-res (15 Mb)		Text
	Lost in the Glare	Fullscreen (19 Mb)	Med-res (4 Mb)		Text
	Transit Graph	Fullscreen (4 Mb)	Med-res (1 Mb)		Text
	Kepler's Orbit	Fullscreen (58 Mb)	Med-res (23 Mb)	Low-res (4 Mb)	Text
	Comparative Life Zones of Stars (without text)	Fullscreen (11 Mb)	Med-res (5 Mb)	Low-res (2 Mb)	Text
	Comparative Life Zones of Stars (with text)	Fullscreen (11 Mb)	Med-res (5 Mb)	Low-res (2 Mb)	Text
	Ball Aerospace team assembles Kepler spacecraft	Fullscreen (92 Mb)
LAUNCH	ANIMATIONS
	Kepler Launch and Deployment (a single edited version of all 6 animations below)	Fullscreen (23 Mb)		Low-res (3 Mb)
	Delta 2 on Launchpad at night	Fullscreen (35 Mb)	Med-res (5 Mb)	Low-res (1.5 Mb)	Text
	Kepler Launch at night	Fullscreen (33 Mb)	Med-res (5 Mb)	Low-res (2 Mb)	Text
	Fairing Separation	Fullscreen (20 Mb)	Med-res (4 Mb)	Low-res (1 Mb)	Text
	Second Stage	Fullscreen (12 Mb)	Med-res (4 Mb)	Low-res (1 Mb)	Text
	Second Stage Separation	Fullscreen (12 Mb)	Med-res (4 Mb)	Low-res (1 Mb)	Text
	Third Stage	Fullscreen (24 Mb)	Med-res (6 Mb)	Low-res (2 Mb)	Text
	Ejection of the Dust Cover	Fullscreen (24 Mb)	Med-res (7 Mb)
PLANETARY ZOO	(what we CAN'T see yet)				Text
	Hot Jupiter	Fullscreen (6 Mb)	Med-res (6 Mb)
	Kuiper Belt World	Fullscreen (92 Mb)	Med-res (22 Mb)
	Earth-like World	Fullscreen (232 Mb)	Med-res (45 Mb)
	Water World	Fullscreen (49 Mb)	Med-res (11 Mb)
	Diversity of Life possible on other planets		Med-res (75 Mb)

* Sample scripts for these animations are put in the right-most column of the chart, as they become available.

Links to transit animations on the web:

• Transit animation by Hans-Jorg Deeg: http://www.iac.es/galeria/hdeeg/ Available as animated gif file and as a downloadable mpeg.
• Simple transit/light curve animation (animated gif on TReS site at CalTech): http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~ftod/tres/tres.html

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Below are some animations for the Kepler Mission that you are free to use in any publication.

Simple animation illustrating how Kepler discovers planets.

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Animations -||- Movie clips

Movies/Video/Podcasts:

2009 July 7. NOVA Science Now: Hunt for Alien Earths - Learn how astronomers find planets around other stars, and how they may be on the brink of finding Earth-like planets beyond our solar system.

2009 May 31. Interview on KNTV-TV (NBC) Channel 11 "Press:Here" program in 4 parts:

• Part 1, Episode 17, "Flip and NASA Kepler"
• Part 2, Episode 17, "Flip and NASA Kepler"
• Part 3, Episode 17, "Flip and NASA Kepler"
• Part 4, Episode 17, "Flip and NASA Kepler"

2009 April 4 at 07:05 UT: Kepler Mission webcast—part of Around the World in 80 Telescopes. See alternative archive of recorded movie featuring Natalie Batalha.

LAUNCH:

• MPEG-4 podcast of Kepler launch (12 Mb download), also on NASA podcast page.
• Kepler Lifts Off on Planet Finding Mission (YouTube—KSCvideo) ... atop a Delta II rocket to search for Earth-like planets.
• More videos at Kennedy Space Center Media Gallery (Windows Media Player - streaming video) click on "Videos" under Search Media Gallery and put "Kepler" as key word.
• Video by Todd Kaus from Jetty Park, Cape Canaveral.

2009 Mar 10. Colbert Report focusing on Kepler—interview with Bill Gerstenmaier.

2009 Mar 5 Kepler Mission Webcast.

2009 Feb 19. CNN page. Has link to excerpt from Kepler L-14 Press Conference (featuring Bill Borucki)

2009 Feb 6. Mission Update: Kepler (on YouTube).

2009 Jan 23. Kepler arriving at the Kennedy Space Center.

2009 Jan 23. Geoff Marcy - The Search for Habitable Planets and Life in the Universe - 1:08:31 [UC Berkeley - http://astro.berkeley.edu/iya ]

2009 January. 3 minute segment (YouTube) from the last History Channel Universe show "Another Earth".

2008 March. Search for Second Earths segment on the Science Channel. The program was mostly about Geoff Marcy's wobbly planet theories but has nice segment on Kepler.

2007 Nov 7. News Hour podcast about planet discovery 7. Astronomers Spy New Planet in Distant Solar System. (PBS News Hour)

2007 April 12. NASA press conference to discuss its plans for using its new spacecraft, called Kepler, to search for planets that may have extraterrestrial life. Features Natalie Batalha, Jack Lissauer. YouTube clip of C/NET