Water Ice Clouds

Water-Ice Clouds Detected on a Distant Exo-Jupiter Challenge Exoplanet Atmosphere Models

Using JWST data, researchers detected water-ice clouds in the atmosphere of the exoplanet Epsilon Indi Ab, a gas giant much more massive than Jupiter, overturning previous assumptions that such distant atmospheres lack clouds and refining models of exoplanet atmospheres for future Earth-like planet searches.