
A novel technique has enabled a team of IAC researchers to be the first to analyse in detail the Earth’s atmosphere during a lunar eclipse The study determines those features that permit the existence of life on Earth and suggests that the search for life on other planets might be easier than previously thought A team of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has been the first to make a detailed study of the sunlight transmitted through the Earth’s atmosphere and reflected back to Earth by the Moon during a lunar eclipse. The method consists in analysing the
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