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...Spirit—have led researches to conclude that the concentrations of minerals in Mars’s water makes the planet inhospitable for even the heartiest of organisms, according to Andrew Knoll, a professor of natural history in the Earth and planetary sciences department and a member of NASA??s Mars Exploration Rover science team...
...Charbonneau and his team studied one such transiting planet with NASA??s Hubble Space Telescope and detected its atmosphere, marking the first discovery of the kind...
...findings were made using NASA??s Spitzer Space Telescope, the “infrared cousin of the Hubble,” which is able to see the infrared spectrum of faraway stars, Charbonneau said...
...second planet, HD 209458b, studied by L. Jeremy Richardson of NASA??s Goddard Space Flight Center, shows signs of silicates in the atmosphere, according to a press release from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics...
...within a week of each other, and a handful detected in previous years, the CfA is positioning itself at the forefront of the search for planets outside our solar system. According to Stephen S. Murray, CfA’s deputy director for science, the center is also involved in NASA??s Kepler Mission, which will send a telescope to search for habitable planets. TrES-2 is in the same region that Kepler will peruse. O’Donovan wrote that a series of disappointments before the final confirmation of TrES-2’s existence at the Keck...