Saturday 31 August 2019

Earth’s chemical fingerprint could help identify habitable exoplanets

Earth’s chemical fingerprint could help identify habitable exoplanets

Canadian astronomers at McGill University, using satellite data collected over the past decade, have come up with a spectral “fingerprint” of Earth that could be compared to atmospheric signatures from exoplanet transits to help determine their ability to support life.

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