# PlanetQuest

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**PlanetQuest** is [NASA](/source/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](/source/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.

Begun in January 2002 and based at NASA's [Jet Propulsion Laboratory](/source/Jet_Propulsion_Laboratory), PlanetQuest is funded by the Exoplanet Exploration Program, a long-term suite of NASA missions designed to detect and characterize of Earth-like planets. The main components of Navigator include two ground-based and two space based missions:

On Earth:

- The [Keck Interferometer](/source/Keck_Interferometer). Initial interferometeric work began in 2005.
- The [Large Binocular Telescope](/source/Large_Binocular_Telescope) Interferometer. Instrument that is part of the Large Binocular Telescope, which has been operational since 2005.

In space:

- [SIM PlanetQuest](/source/SIM_PlanetQuest). SIM Lite cancelled in 2010.
- The [Terrestrial Planet Finder](/source/Terrestrial_Planet_Finder) observatories. *De facto* cancelled.

## References

- [NASA's Planet-Finding Roadmap (PDF file)](https://web.archive.org/web/20060928221332/http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/documents/RdMp273.pdf)
- [Navigator Program Public Engagement Plan (PDF file)](https://web.archive.org/web/20061005173548/http://science.hq.nasa.gov/research/overviews/nav_plan.pdf)

## External links

- [PlanetQuest website](https://web.archive.org/web/20020119150729/http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/)
- [Exoplanet Exploration Program](https://web.archive.org/web/20080409142327/http://exep.jpl.nasa.gov/)
- [SIM PlanetQuest mission](https://web.archive.org/web/20070116003158/http://sim.jpl.nasa.gov/)
- [Terrestrial Planet Finder](https://web.archive.org/web/20070117000049/http://tpf.jpl.nasa.gov/)

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