Comment Re:Couple of clarifications (Score 1) 169
Yep. All made good sense.
I saw a program a little while ago (I think it might have been on the Open University, I'm not sure), where they stated that it should be possible (albeit with space bourne spectrometers, far more sensitive than the ones we have up there at the moment), to work out the compisition of the atmosphere of said planets, by differencing the spectra of the light of the parent star against the spectra of the light shining through the atmosphere of the intervening planet.
Dan
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I saw a program a little while ago (I think it might have been on the Open University, I'm not sure), where they stated that it should be possible (albeit with space bourne spectrometers, far more sensitive than the ones we have up there at the moment), to work out the compisition of the atmosphere of said planets, by differencing the spectra of the light of the parent star against the spectra of the light shining through the atmosphere of the intervening planet.
Dan
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