Detection of mountains in exoplanets
Over the years, the study of exoplanets has been carried out frequently, but this practice has increased enormously in recent years, evidencing this in the different discoveries that could lead us to know the worlds beyond the Solar System in a more efficient way. so much so that there is even the possibility of detecting mountains in exoplanets.
The existence of 3,726 exoplanets in 2,792 systems has already been confirmed and this has been due to the help of terrestrial and space telescopes, such as Kepler.
Of all of them, 622 have more than one planet, this information being obtained on January 1, 2018, signaling that the next generation telescopes will come into operation in the next few years, making it possible to continue discovering exoplanets and even more, giving us a consequence that seems very promising
Thanks to the arrival of new telescopes, such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JSWT) from NASA and other terrestrial observatories, we can discover many details about these worlds. We're not just going to discover more exoplanets. A recent study indicates that the transit method could give us great surprises. It is one of the main methods of discovery of exoplanets.
So great will be the capacity of these new telescopes, that it is thought that it could help us to detect the elevations in the surface of these worlds, being based on several models. For it, they have recreated some objects of the Solar System. The team has used them to determine if the transit method analyzes could allow us to know topographic data of exoplanets.
It is highlighted that what is proposed is that mountains can be detected in exoplanets. Do not confuse it with being able to observe them. We will not be able to photograph the mountains of other worlds, but we will intuit their presence thanks to the transit method. As you may know, it is the most popular and reliable to detect exoplanets, which has the function of analyzing the light curve of a star over time and observe its brightness.
