Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Bathing In The Sunset Of An ‘Earth-Like’ Alien World

In the above rendering, scientists at the Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo have rendered a very familiar scene here on Earth but usedreal data from the recently identified “habitable” exoplanet Kepler-186f.

This “Earth-like”* world is 10 percent larger than Earth, so depending on its mass Kepler-186f could indeed support an atmosphere that is many times the density of Mars’ (and indeed Earth’s) modern day atmosphere. source


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