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Detecting Water on Extrasolar Planet Surfaces
February 14, 2008 / Posted by: Marco Boldt
New work from NAI’s University of Hawai’i Team in Icarus indicates that astronomers will eventually be able to discriminate between extrasolar Earth-like planets with surface oceans and those without using the shape of phase light curves in the visible and near-IR spectrum. Their results suggest several new ways of directly identifying water on distant planets.
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