Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are
part of a research team that has detected water vapor in the atmosphere of a
planet outside our solar system. The team, including scientists from California
Institute of Technology, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
Pennsylvania State University, and University of Arizona, applied a
sophisticated Doppler technique to the infrared to directly detect the planet
and demonstrate the presence of water in its atmosphere.