Even finding nothing in such places is important, because these new data have predictive power, narrowing the field of planets, or moons, that might harbor life. Nature has the critical experimental data that we need to finally place Earth in context, within a zoo of worlds emerging from ice ages, worlds descending into greenhouse hells, young worlds, old worlds, barren worlds, and possibly worlds teeming with life.
即使在这些地方什么都没发现也很有意义，因为这些新的数据具有预测性，能够缩小可能存在生命的行星或卫星范围。大自然能够提供人类所需要的与地球构成参照的重要实验数据，包括刚走出冰河期的世界、跌入温室气体地狱的世界、年轻的世界、古老的世界、荒芜的世界和可能充满生命的世界。而这意味着人类将有新的数据来引导行星管理工作。