The Study of Climate on Alien Worlds
Characterizing atmospheres beyond our Solar System is now within our reach.
Space and ground telescopes have located thousands of planets outside of our solar system. Such exoplanets can still only be seen as little more than pinpoints of light. Nonetheless, astronomers are now able to decipher some details of these distant worlds, such as the basic structures of their atmospheres.
Read the article in the American Scientist.
