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Illustration of Earth and Venus

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Since Earth, right, and Venus, left, are so close in size and yet so different in terms of their prospects for habitability, Stephen Kane, an exoplanets expert at the University of California, Riverside, is interested in developing methods for distinguishing Earth- and Venus-analogs in other planetary systems, as a way of identifying potentially habitable terrestrial planets.

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