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Originally Posted by troutman
I don't think we'll see photo evidence. The existence of these planets is inferred as they pass in front of their suns.
Kepler will detect planets indirectly, using the "transit" method. A transit occurs each time a planet crosses the line-of-sight between the planet's parent star that it is orbiting and the observer. When this happens, the planet blocks some of the light from its star, resulting in a periodic dimming. This periodic signature is used to detect the planet and to determine its size and its orbit.
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Right and they talked about identifying water, carbon dioxide etc.. whatever method they are using to detect this, that is what I am looking forward to seeing. There has to be some kind of reading, some kind of data they can produce, picture was a general and a bad term I should have just said proof. Whatever they are using as proof, that is what I look forward to seeing.