Kepler Press Conference

Jon Morse, Astrophysics Division Director, NASA Headquarters, left, is seen Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009 at a press conference at NASA Headquarters in Washington where he along with William Bo-Ricki, principal investigator, Sara Seager, professor of Planetary Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Alan Boss, an astrophysicist at the Carnegie Institution at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, far right, discussed the scientific observations coming from the Kepler spacecraft that was launched this past March. Kepler is NASA's first mission that is capable of discovering earth-sized planets in the habitable zones of stars like our Sun. Photo Credit: (NASA/Paul E. Alers)