The James Webb Space Telescope, which can produce high-resolution infrared images, will play a pivotal ... Read also: Webb Telescope discovers water vapor on a nearby planet A mysterious entity ...

This image shows blue spheres representing relative ... Some fast facts: About 3,100 mi 3 (12,900 km 3) of water, mostly in the form of water vapor, is in the atmosphere at any one time.

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 116, No. 823 (September 2004), pp. 876-885 (10 pages) ABSTRACT Water vapor, while usually a small contributor to the atmospheric ...