Trappist 1e - Visions of the Future NASA solar system Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI

Mars Exploration Rovers

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The sharp rocks

Trappist 1e - Visions of the Future NASA solar system Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSISome 40 light years from Earth, a planet called TRAPPIST 1e offers a heart stopping view: brilliant objects in a red sky, looming like larger and smaller versions of our own moon. But these are no moons. They are Earth sized planets in a spectacular planetary system outside our own. These seven rocky worlds huddle around their small, dim, red star, like a family around a campfire. Any of them could harbor liquid water, but the planet shown here,