NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over Tropical Depression Nora on October 14 and saw strong wind shear pushing the bulk of clouds and showers northeast of the center.
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Kepler’s Full Field of View
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This image zooms into a small portion of Kepler’s full field of view – an expansive, 100-square-degree patch of sky in our Milky Way galaxy.
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Kepler Mission Star Field
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Ready to Roar
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Kepler Solar Array Assembly
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Delta Soars
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Techs Check Out Kepler
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Artist’s Rendering Of Kepler’s Target Region In The Milky Way
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Technicians from Ball Aerospace inspected the honeycomb structure of the Kepler Space Telescope’s primary mirror. The mirror has been 86% light-weighted; that is, it only weighs 14% of amount that a solid mirror of the same dimensions would. The mirror blank was made by Corning Glass works out of ultra-low expansion glass, or ULE.
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