Water Found in Extrasolar Planet's Atmosphere


	Water Found in Extrasolar Planet's Atmosphere

rmowery

4-10-2007 3:54 PM

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planets, space, water, nasa, life

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Amazing how fast a civilizations perspective on things can change with each new discovery.

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</TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070410_water_exoplanet.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.space.com/img/DED1CCE0-6DBF-4971-8CD7-B26632C2DA53" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070410_water_exoplanet.html"><P class="style2">Astronomers have detected water in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system for the first time.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070410_water_exoplanet.html"><P class="style2">The finding, to be detailed in an upcoming issue of <EM>Astrophysical Journal</EM>, confirms previous theories that say water vapor should be present in the atmospheres of nearly all the known extrasolar planets. Even <A href="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070109_superwind_planets.html">hot Jupiters</A>, gaseous planets that orbit closer to their stars than Mercury to our Sun, are thought to have water.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070410_water_exoplanet.html"><P class="style2">The discovery, announced today, means one of the most crucial elements for <A href="http://www.space.com/searchforlife/">life as we know it</A> can exist around planets orbiting other stars.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070410_water_exoplanet.html"><P class="style2">“We know that water vapor exists in the atmospheres of one extrasolar planet and there is good reason to believe that other extrasolar planets contain water vapor,” said Travis Barman, an astronomer at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona who made the discovery.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/31C20C48-B633-4FAF-B9CC-CEA11DB6E6A8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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