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Ep. 626: Terrestrial Planets - Mercury, Venus, Earth & Mars

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The Water on Mars Could Be a Game Changer

The water on mars could be a total game changer, both in the search for life, but also just in the support of exploration of the planet. I think instead of viewing planets as following some goldy locks scenario of this one's too hot or that one's too cold, it is much more like an avacato,. And it's how long a world is habitable. If you wait, even our world is going to become no longer habitable en and so the question becomes, how big is the window? Is the worlds with the biggest window, the biggest period of being not too hard and not too mushy? That's when we'll find them.

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