JWST Peers at a Rocky Super-Earth's Surface for the First Time, Finding a Dark, Airless World That Looks Like Mercury
Astronomers used JWST's MIRI to directly study the surface geology of LHS 3844 b, a super-Earth 48.5 light-years away, revealing a basaltic, atmosphere-free world resembling Mercury — a first for exoplanet science.
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