Could They See Us Like We Can See Them?

We can see these planets out there, and you can actually almost take pictures of it, right? Its not just being detected by the gravity there. And so if we use earthlike technology, we can tell that those planets are there. And now we can make some measurements of what's in the atmosphere of those planets. It's a really vibrant and fast moving field of study right now. What can you learn about potential life on the surface just from understanding the atmosphere? But in about ten or 15 years, some of these other devices, like the 30 meter telescope or the giant magellan telescope, will turn on to give us much better resolving power. They might be able to take direct