12 Apr
2007

NASA researchers believe they have found a way to predict the color of plants on planets in other solar systems. Green, yellow or even red-dominant plants may live on extra-solar planets, as per researchers whose two scientific papers appear in the recent issue of the journal, Astrobiology. The researchers studied light absorbed and reflected by organisms on Earth, and determined that if astronomers were to look at the light given off by planets circling distant stars, they might predict that some planets have mostly non-green plants........