David Sing

It definitely tells us exoplanets are very diverse and their composition is diverse, since we now know water is common on hot Jupiters – they are not devoid of water – that does lead to the prospect that other smaller planets may have lots of water as well.

The way we are going to do that is to look for gases in the atmosphere and associate those with conditions of life, in order to do that, we are going to have to compare many different planets to really understand what is going on.

Now that we are able to see a lot of planets, 10 planets and see the full broad spectrum, we are able to see planets that have clear atmospheres and a lot of water and those that show little features are the cloudy ones, it definitely tells us exoplanets are very diverse and their composition is diverse.