An artist's depiction of our world when the Earthshine measurements were taken, enhanced to show the red edge from vegetation. A distant astronomer on another planet would see the spectral signatures of our oxygen atmosphere, water, and chlorophyll from land plants. Credit: John Walker's Earth Viewer, Christine Lafon, (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics).

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