Kavli Affiliate: Laura Schaefer | Summary:Seven rocky planets orbit the nearby dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, providing a unique opportunity to search for atmospheres on small planets outside the Solar System (Gillon et al., 2017). Thanks to the recent launch of JWST, possible atmospheric constituents such as carbon dioxide (CO2) are now detectable (Morley et al., 2017, […]
Continue.. No thick carbon dioxide atmosphere on the rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 c