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Raghnar -ITA- · 09-28-2009, 10:58 AM

First we have to het how to see the color of a tiny little thing like a planet.
Now we don't SEE extrasolar planet, simply we measure some distorsion in gravitational field or peridiodic oscillation of luminosity of the star. In this way we can find only big fat giant planets like Saturn or Neptune...
Maybe someday, maybe with JWST we will track the H concentrations so precisly that we will be able to effectivly see (in infrared) if a planet is an oceanic (or iced) one or another gas giant.

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Raghnar -ITA- Tilted Location: Milan - Italy	First we have to het how to see the color of a tiny little thing like a planet. Now we don't SEE extrasolar planet, simply we measure some distorsion in gravitational field or peridiodic oscillation of luminosity of the star. In this way we can find only big fat giant planets like Saturn or Neptune... Maybe someday, maybe with JWST we will track the H concentrations so precisly that we will be able to effectivly see (in infrared) if a planet is an oceanic (or iced) one or another gas giant. __________________ English N00b - Please help if you have time and correct my errors