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Nature 415, 570-571 (7 February 2002) | doi:10.1038/415570a
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Planetary portraits
Tony Reichhardt1
Abstract
The list of known planets outside our Solar System grows by the week. Thanks to new technologies, a host of pictures of these worlds could soon be available. Tony Reichhardt investigates.
Soon after the first planet orbiting a Sun-like star was discovered, Dan Goldin, then administrator of NASA, issued a challenge. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in San Antonio, Texas, in January 1996, he called on the assembled scientists to find a way, within 25 years, to take a picture of an Earth-sized planet orbiting a nearby star with a resolution good enough to see oceans, clouds, continents and mountain ranges.
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