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Latest News for August 16th, 2016

A planet's starting temperature may be crucial for habitability

A new paper by Alternative Earths Co-I Jun Korenaga, "Can mantle convection be self-regulated?" was published this month in "Science Advances." Research suggests that simply being in the habitable zone isn’t sufficient to support life. For decades, it was thought that planets are able to self-regulate their internal temperature via mantle convection. A planet might...
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