PlanetQuest
PlanetQuest is NASA's education and public outreach program centered on the science and technology of NASA's long-term search for habitable planets beyond the Solar System.
Major components of the PlanetQuest outreach program include:
- PlanetQuest: the Search for Another Earth, a continuously updated public news and multimedia Internet site;
- The Night Sky Network, a national coalition of amateur astronomy clubs who do astronomy education and public outreach on behalf of NASA;
- The Center for Astronomy Education, which provides professional development resources for instructors who teach introductory astronomy course, including a series of national “Teaching Excellence” workshops;
- Informal education initiatives, including “PlanetQuest Updates” provided to more than 60 museums nationwide, and interactive multimedia kiosks.
On Earth:
- The Keck Interferometer. Initial interferometeric work began in 2005.
- The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer. Instrument that is part of the Large Binocular Telescope, which has been operational since 2005.
- SIM PlanetQuest. SIM Lite cancelled in 2010.
- The Terrestrial Planet Finder observatories. De facto cancelled.