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NASA Team Looks to Ancient Earth First to Study Hazy Exoplanets
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“We like to say that Archean Earth is the most alien planet we have geochemical data for,” For astronomers trying to understand which distant planets might have habitable conditions, the role of atmospheric haze has been hazy. To help sort it out, a team of researchers has been looking to Earth – specifically Earth during the Archean era, an epic 1-1/2-billion-year period early in our planet’s history.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineNASA Team Looks to Ancient Earth First to Study Hazy Exoplanets. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000132.
