Planetary Science - Is There a Climate in the Range of Water?

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Cameron Bellamy: What aspects of a planet's climate are planetary scientists looking for when evaluating planets for potential to support life? He says the basic factor that we're always very focused on is a climate in the range where water would be predominantly liquid. And what was the second part of the question? What do we look for to? Oh, how far away? How far away?Yeah. I like it. I think we should just like start that world right now. That's great.

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