{"id":11490,"date":"2016-05-14T08:56:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T08:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=11490"},"modified":"2016-05-14T08:56:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T08:56:30","slug":"kepler-mission-announces-largest-collection-planets-ever-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/kepler-mission-announces-largest-collection-planets-ever-discovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Kepler Mission Announces Largest Collection of Planets Ever Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Question: Under which of the following mission of NASA the largest collection of exoplanets (Trove) ever were discovered ?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Lunar Orbiter-1<br \/>\n(b) Kepler<br \/>\n(c) Pioneer-1<br \/>\n(d) Hubble Space Telescope<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (b)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>On 10 May 2016 NASA\u2019s Kepler mission has announced the largest collection of exoplanets ever discovered.<\/li>\n<li>NASA&#8217;s Kepler mission has verified 1,284 new planets &#8211; the single largest finding of planets to date this is more than doubles the number of confirmed planets from Kepler.<\/li>\n<li>The mission was launched in March 2009; Kepler is the first NASA mission to find potentially habitable Earth-size planets.<\/li>\n<li>This discovery has given hope that they may eventually discover another Earth-like planet that could harbour life.<\/li>\n<li>Of the 1,284 discovered, nearly 550 could be rocky planets like Earth, based on their size.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasas-kepler-mission-announces-largest-collection-of-planets-ever-discovered\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasas-kepler-mission-announces-largest-collection-of-planets-ever-discovered<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/over-1200-new-planets-discovered\/article8587045.ece\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/over-1200-new-planets-discovered\/article8587045.ecehttp:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/over-1200-new-planets-discovered\/article8587045.ece<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/spaceref.com\/extrasolar-planets\/kepler-announces-largest-collection-of-planets-ever-discovered.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/spaceref.com\/extrasolar-planets\/kepler-announces-largest-collection-of-planets-ever-discovered.html<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Under which of the following mission of NASA the largest collection of exoplanets (Trove) ever were discovered ? (a) Lunar Orbiter-1 (b) Kepler (c) Pioneer-1 (d) Hubble Space Telescope Ans: (b) Related facts: On 10 May 2016 NASA\u2019s Kepler mission has announced the largest collection of exoplanets ever discovered. NASA&#8217;s Kepler mission has verified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1131],"tags":[2336],"class_list":["post-11490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dssn","tag-defensescience-short"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}