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NASA's Next Great Observatory Could Spot Oceans on Distant Worlds

We’ve found over 5,500 exoplanets so far. Dozens of them have been in the habitable zone of their parent stars, where, at least in theory, they could host an ocean. But we’ve never definitively found a liquid ocean on another planet. A new paper from researchers Eleanor Cornish and Tyler Robinson of the University of Arizona, available in pre-print on arXiv and submitted to the Astrophysical…

NASA's Next Great Observatory Could Spot Oceans on Distant Worlds

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