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The Kepler Mission Searches for Earth-Like Planets by Looking for the Dip

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The Kepler mission searches for Earth-like planets by looking for the dip in the brightness of a star as such a planet transited across it.Why does this technique actually miss the vast majority of planets?

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By searching for transits,Kepler can onl...

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