Illustration of How a Habitable Planet Might Appear in Future Exoplanet Observations (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Illustration of How a Habitable Planet Might Appear in Future Exoplanet Observations

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Left, an image of Earth from the DSCOVR-EPIC camera. Right, the same image degraded to a resolution of 3-by-3 pixels, similar to what researchers will see in future exoplanet observations.

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