NASA's Hubble Telescope has located extraterrestrial clouds on two exoplanets Fox News reported Friday. The exoplanets are space bodies that go around a star other than the sun according to information from Observatoire de Paris.
The planets are called Super earth and Warm Neptune, and teach scientists how to group conditions similar to Earth, based on what they see Fox News reported.
"Both planets are telling us something about the diversity of planet types that occur outside of our own solar system; in this case we are discovering we may not know them as well as we thought," Heather Knutson from the California Institute of Technology said in a statement Fox News reported.
"Either this planet has a high cloud layer obscuring the view, or it has a cloud-free atmosphere that is deficient in hydrogen, which would make it very unlike Neptune," Knutson said in the statement Fox News reported. "Instead of hydrogen, it could have relatively large amounts of heavier molecules such as water vapor, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide, which would compress the atmosphere and make it hard for us to detect any chemical signals," Knutson said in the statement.
Information from the telescope listed in the science journal Nature, also assisted Laura Kreidberg, and Jacob Bean from the University of Chicago in finding out more about surroundings on super-earth and warm neptune. They found that the clouds hover around the planets.
"You would expect very different kinds of clouds to form on these planets than you would find, say, on Earth," Kreidberg said in a statement Fox News reported.
Kreidberg and Bean also found it was difficult to see the bottom clouds closer to the surface Fox News reported.
"We really pushed the limits of what is possible with Hubble to make this measurement-our work devoted more Hubble time to a single exoplanet than ever before," Kreidberg said.
"This advance lays the foundation for characterizing other Earths with similar techniques."
