Kepler

Models and Simulations—Kepler Mission

Planet Families: Build-a-Solar System Interactive webpage
Exoplanet Transit Hunt, a Flash interactive simulation of Kepler mission. Explore a simulated star field, record data, make measurements and do calculations to discover new planets.
LEGO orrery and model of Kepler mission concept to demonstrate the principle of how Kepler will find extrasolar planets by the transit method.
The Dierking transit detector model
Paper model of the Kepler spacecraft
Finding Exoplanets (A Simulation) Part of Interactive Science Activities on the Web series, directed by Dr. Richard L. Bowman, at Bridgewater College, VA. This is a web-based version of a portion of the Kepler interactive simulator Hyperstudio program (below) to detect planets. It includes a classroom activity plan based on the web site. There is also a Lab Exercise by Philip Blanco, of Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA. The Lab Exercise is based on the above online simulation.
Planet Quest—The Search for Another Earth an overview of exoplanet search programs at JPL. Multi-media Gallery - see 4 Ways to Find A Planet Venus Transit Simulation
*How Kepler* finds planets** This animation requires flash plugin
Extra-solar Planets. STEM Software (Java Applets) at University of Colorado. A visualization of how astronomers fit model Doppler velocity curves to data representing actual extra-solar planetary systems.
Celestia—an open source, real time and space simulation. Tour the solar system. As open source - objects can be added. Extrasolar systems could be added. Time element can be speeded up to observe planetary orbits, moons' orbits.
Astro-Venture An educational, interactive, multimedia Web environment where students in grades 5-8 role-play NASA occupations, as they search for and build a planet with the necessary characteristics for human habitation.
Hans Deeg's animation of HD209548 transit The Transatlantic Exoplanet Survey (TrES) website has a model "Light Curve of a Star During Planetary Transit" Dan Bruton's "Binary Star simulations and programs"

Discovery Missions

Last Modified:
19 June, 2008