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Strange news from other stars

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The dawn of exoplanet discovery has unearthed a rich tapestry of planets different from anything encountered in the Solar System. Geoscientists can and should be in the vanguard of investigating what is out there in the Universe.

The frontispiece chosen for Gerard Kuiper's 1949 book The Atmospheres of the Earth and Planets1 was an aerial photograph of the Earth from a sounding rocket, labelled “The Earth as a Planet.” The book recognized the commonality in physics governing the Earth and other planets of the Solar System. With its publication, the subject of comparative planetology was born.

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Figure B1: The radius of the planet, relative to Earth's, is shown on the vertical axis.

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  1. Raymond T. Pierrehumbert is in the Department of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago, 5734 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA,

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