Exoplanets’climate – it takes nothing to switch from habitable to hell (IMAGE)

Université de Genève

Exoplanets’climate – it takes nothing to switch from habitable to hell

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Runaway greenhouse effect can transform a temperate habitable planet with surface liquid water ocean into a hot steam dominated planet hostile to any life.

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© Thibaut Roger / UNIGE

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