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WEBB: Exoplanet with a nitrogen-detected atmosphere. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 13 July 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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0:00.0

This is a CBSI in the world. Behind the Black, 14 years of watching very carefully the birth of and now maturing commercial space. However, the payoff is

0:15.9

exploring and that's what the James Webb's Space Telescope is doing. It's found

0:20.6

another exoplanet of promise. What kind Bob?

0:23.2

This is actually an exoplanet that has been well known. It's one of the very first

0:27.4

exoplanets have been found. But Webb looked at it with its infrared capabilities,

0:33.4

these spectroscopy, and determined that he has an atmosphere

0:36.8

that is nitrogen-rich, or planet has a nitrogen-rich

0:40.9

atmosphere in ourselves of the earth.

0:43.2

I know the answer Bob go ahead.

0:45.4

Okay well I want to just be clear and so this is interesting they think that this

0:49.7

planet it's a Neptune's many Neptune- planet. So it's rock it's probably rocky, but it's bigger than earth

0:56.2

But it's in the habitable zone of this particular star. It's a red dwarf star it orbits its point star every, what is it, five days, I think.

1:05.0

And so this is a planet that needs to be looked at more and more closely, with

1:10.6

wet, because we could find that a lot more things about it if we get a closer look.

1:15.0

And earthquakes on the moon. Moon quakes, what's the significance?

1:19.0

Well, understanding the moon better is the key, but what's interesting about this story is that

1:24.8

it we have now discovered 22,000 additional quakes that occurred on the moon

1:31.0

during the Apollo era.

1:33.0

These were seismographs that were put on seismometers

1:37.3

that were put on the moon during the Apollo missions.

1:40.0

And during the period of about five years

1:42.0

that they operated

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