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111 - Spectrometry in Space: What Every Planet Is Telling Us
We've never touched Mars. We've never scooped up Pluto's frost or sifted through Jupiter's cloud layers. And yet scientists can describe the chemistry of every planet in our solar system with remarkable precision. This episode is about how that's possible — and why the colors you see when you look up at the night sky are some of the most information-rich things in the universe.
The Philosopher Who Said It Was Impossible In 1835, French philosopher Auguste Comte declared that the physical composition of stars and distant worlds would forever lie beyond human knowledge. Within 25 years, he had…
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