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BBC News - Alien oceans could be detected by telescopes
This is really awesome and can't wait to see what they come up with. I recommend reading the entire article as well, much longer than what I posted due to copyright.
The next generation of telescopes could reveal the presence of oceans on planets outside our Solar System.
Detecting water on Earth-like planets offers the tantalising prospect they could sustain life.
Scientists hope the reflection of light, or "glint", from mirror-like ocean surfaces could be picked up by a US space telescope set for launch in 2014.
The goal is to find something Earth-like in almost every sense of the world so we can even prove it has liquid oceans on its surface."
This kind of ocean could be the signature of a planet where life had developed in the same way as it did on our own planet.
This is really awesome and can't wait to see what they come up with. I recommend reading the entire article as well, much longer than what I posted due to copyright.