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Monday, May 07, 2012
 
Hubble cannot look at the Sun directly, so astronomers are planning to point the telescope at Earth’s Moon and use...
Hubble cannot look at the Sun directly, so astronomers are planning to point the telescope at Earth’s Moon and use it as a mirror to capture reflected sunlight. During the transit a small fraction of that light will have passed through Venus’s atmosphere and imprinted on that light astronomers expect to find the fingerprints of the planet’s atmospheric makeup.

Originally shared by Kiril Serebnik
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/05/weekend-feature-beyond-seti-using-genomics-neutrino-astrophysics-in-search-for-advanced-alien-life.html

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