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Even if we find an earth-sized exoplanet, how can we be so sure that we're looking at earth 2.0? It might come down to how fast it's spinning.
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eso.org/public/news/eso1414/#:~:text=Using%20the%20CRIRES%20instrument%20on,100%20000%20kilometres%20per%20hour.
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iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac36ce/pdf
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commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Extremely_Large_Telescope_progress,_January_2022.png
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gettyimages.com/detail/video/interior-shot-spinning-globe-slowly-turning-round-and-news-footage/506139986?phrase=rotating%20globe&adppopup=true
nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-juno-mission-to-remain-in-current-orbit-at-jupiter
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gettyimages.com/detail/photo/milky-way-beautiful-summer-night-sky-with-stars-royalty-free-image/1417982034?phrase=star%20sky&adppopup=true
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artist%E2%80%99s_impression_of_the_planet_Beta_Pictoris_b.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Messier_30_(captured_by_the_Hubble_Space_Telescope).jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hurricane_Isabel_from_ISS.jpg
sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/ocean-observation/understanding-climate/oceans-and-continents
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PIA02863_-_Jupiter_surface_motion_animation.gif
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap980122.html
exoplanets.nasa.gov/discovery/how-we-find-and-characterize
Even if we find an earth-sized exoplanet, how can we be so sure that we're looking at earth 2.0? It might come down to how fast it's spinning.
Hosted by: Reid Reimers (he/him)
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Sources:
education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/coriolis-effect
eso.org/public/news/eso1414/#:~:text=Using%20the%20CRIRES%20instrument%20on,100%20000%20kilometres%20per%20hour.
eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso1414/eso1414a.pdf
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac36ce/pdf
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016ApJ...817..106B/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011A%26A...531A..29H/abstract
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aa63e9/pdf
nature.com/articles/s41550-022-01626-x
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/743/1/41
Images
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap980122.html
svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3609
nasa.gov/ames/kepler/nasas-kepler-discovers-first-earth-size-planet-in-the-habitable-zone-of-another-star
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Extremely_Large_Telescope_progress,_January_2022.png
svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12313
nasa.gov/feature/jpl/day-of-discovery-7-earth-size-planets
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venus_globe.jpg
gettyimages.com/detail/video/interior-shot-spinning-globe-slowly-turning-round-and-news-footage/506139986?phrase=rotating%20globe&adppopup=true
nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-juno-mission-to-remain-in-current-orbit-at-jupiter
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PIA23791-Venus-NewlyProcessedView-20200608.jpg
gettyimages.com/detail/photo/milky-way-beautiful-summer-night-sky-with-stars-royalty-free-image/1417982034?phrase=star%20sky&adppopup=true
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artist%E2%80%99s_impression_of_the_planet_Beta_Pictoris_b.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Messier_30_(captured_by_the_Hubble_Space_Telescope).jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hurricane_Isabel_from_ISS.jpg
sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/ocean-observation/understanding-climate/oceans-and-continents
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PIA02863_-_Jupiter_surface_motion_animation.gif
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap980122.html
exoplanets.nasa.gov/discovery/how-we-find-and-characterize
