Metal Earth Kepler Spacecraft

Metal Earth is a collection of intricately designed 3D model building kits. Each kit consists of remarkably detailed laser etching cut onto one or more four-inch square sheets of thin metal.

Kepler is a space observatory launched by NASA to discover Earth-size planets orbiting other stars. Named after astronomer Johannes Kepler, the spacecraft was launched on March 7, 2009, into an Earth-trailing heliocentric orbit.