Kepler 7b (left), which is 1.5 times the radius of Jupiter (right), is the first exoplanet to have its clouds mapped. The cloud map was produced using data from NASA’s Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes. IMAGE: NASA/JPL-CALTECH/MIT
Scientists Generate First Map of Clouds On An Exoplanet
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Kepler 7b (left), which is 1.5 times the radius of Jupiter (right), is the first exoplanet to have its clouds mapped. The cloud map was produced using data from NASA’s Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes. IMAGE: NASA/JPL-CALTECH/MIT
