Animations -||- Movie clips
* 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:
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:
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
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