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Spitzer maps climate patterns on a Super-Earth

4 April 2016

Observations from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have led to the first temperature map of a super-Earth planet - a rocky planet nearly two times as big as ours. The map reveals extreme temperature swings from one side of the planet to the other, and hints that a possible reason for this is the presence of lava flows.






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