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Exoplanet Terra Incognita

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Exoplanet surface imaging, cartography, and the search for exolife are the next frontiers of planetology and astrophysics. Here we present an overview of ideas and techniques to resolve albedo features on exoplanetary surfaces. Albedo maps obtained in various spectral bands (similar to true-color images) may reveal exoplanet terrains, geological history, life colonies, and even artificial mega-structures or planet-engineering projects of advanced civilizations.

Keywords

  • Exoplanets
  • Surface imaging
  • Exolife
  • Biosignatures
  • Technosignatures
  • Civilizations

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  1. Kiepenheuer Institut für Sonnenphysik, Freiburg, Germany

    Svetlana V. Berdyugina

  2. PLANETS Foundation, Kula, HI, USA

    Svetlana V. Berdyugina & Jeff R. Kuhn

  3. Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Pukalani, Honolulu, HI, USA

    Jeff R. Kuhn

  4. Space Science and Astrobiology, NASA Ames, Mountain View, CA, USA

    Ruslan Belikov

  5. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA

    Slava G. Turyshev

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Berdyugina, S.V., Kuhn, J.R., Belikov, R., Turyshev, S.G. (2019). Exoplanet Terra Incognita. In: Hargitai, H. (eds) Planetary Cartography and GIS. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62849-3_20

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