Searching for Additional Planets in the EPOXI Data
Ballard et al. analyze data acquired with EPOXI to search for additional planets in five systems with known planets.
Ballard et al. analyze data acquired with EPOXI to search for additional planets in five systems with known planets.
Assuming that we have acquired the spectrum of a distant terrestrial planet, what would it look like? Would we able to resolve surface features? More excitingly, would we be able to detect biomarkers in the atmospheres of alien Earths?