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Terrestrial planets under the young Sun

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Are we alone in the Universe? Is life unique to Earth or a common phenomenon? These fundamental questions represent major puzzles of contemporary science, and were inspiration for a NASA conference on the prebiotic conditions of the early Solar System.

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Airapetian, V.S. Terrestrial planets under the young Sun. Nat Astron 2, 448–449 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-018-0490-4

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