Hubble Examines Earth’s Reflection as an ‘Exoplanet’ During a Lunar Eclipse

Hubble Examines Earth’s Reflection as an ‘Exoplanet’ During a Lunar Eclipse
By David Dickinson

What would we look for in a distant exoplanet in the hunt for Earth-like worlds, and perhaps life? A recent observation carried out by the Hubble Space Telescope found tell-tale signatures from our home planet by looking at a familiar source under extraordinary circumstances: Earth’s Moon, during a total lunar eclipse. The experiment was carried …

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August 12, 2020 at 08:12PM
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