What Can We Actually Find on an Exoplanet? Part 3: Reading the Face of a Planet

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A single pixel of light holds astonishing detail.

How ocean glint, rotational mapping, and the vegetation red edge let us read a distant planet's oceans, continents, and even forests, all without ever resolving it as more than a point.