From: Ramez Naam (mez@apexnano.com)
Date: Thu Jan 30 2003 - 01:44:21 MST
From: Mike Lorrey [mailto:mlorrey@yahoo.com]
> Once the planned space based interferometer is built, it
> should be relatively easy to spot earth-like worlds directly
> rather than by doppler inferences.
So I'm rather excited about the space-based planet finding
interferometer. Here's a rather naïve question: Will we be able to
use this device to perform spectroscopy on the light reflected off the
planets we find, and thus get a sense for the compositions of their
atmospheres? If not, how far away is a device that could do this?
cheers,
mez
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