This is Marissa:
I really enjoyed the movie at the Observatory on exoplanets. I had never heard that term before and to hear the recent discoveries as well as the methods and technology that was used to locate all these new solar systems and various other cosmological entities was quite amazing. The math, different systems (i.e. the examples given), and telescopes/satellites used to determine presence, size, chemical makeup, etc. of orbiting planets through transit and the wobble method was impressive. I also thought the technology to display the video itself was quite impressive so that an entire visual could be displayed without any overlap or shadows from the machine.
I also was impressed by the cameras visual arrangement since it must have taken awhile to align the cameras just right so no overlap occurred. The number of potential earth like planets that might be out there was starting though. It's weird to think there might be a planet with life out there that is pretty much exactly like ours.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the technology allowing for the full display of the star-scape was really awesome. It is amazing how they are able to accurately project it upon a dome and still have it look like it is supposed to. It could be kinda neat to see what it looked like projected onto a flat plane.
ReplyDeleteI was impressed that it is possible to use the light passing through the planet's atmosphere to basically perform spectroscopy and determine the chemical compositon of the atmosphere.
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