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How Can We Know if We're Looking at Habitable exo-Earths or Hellish exo-Venuses?


The differences between Earth and Venus are obvious to us. One is radiant with life and adorned with glittering seas, and the other is a scorching, glowering hellhole, its volcanic surface shrouded by thick clouds and visible only with radar.

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