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It causes a greenhouse effect on steroids, trapping heat from the sun and scorching the planet's surface.
The reality totally contradicted initial perceptions of this planet.
From these lessons from our own solar system, we've learned that a planet's atmosphere is crucial to its climate and potential to host life.
So I use computer models to calculate the kind of atmosphere a planet would need to have a suitable climate for water and life.
Here's an artist's concept of the planet Kepler-62f, with the Earth for reference.
So I'd like future telescopes to follow up on this planet to look for signs of life.
Ice on a planet's surface is also important for climate.
On the other hand, virtually all the atoms you come in to contact with through the course of your life, the ones in the ground beneath you, the air you breath, the food you eat, those that make up every living thing, including you, have existed for billions of years and were created in places very unlike our planet.
So, even though carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and so on made up only two percent of the gas cloud from which Earth was formed, these heavier elements form the bulk of our planet and everything on it.
But as it turns out, we know a lot more about space than we do about the underground waterways coursing through our planet, the very lifeblood of Mother Earth.
In 2000, this was the largest moving object on the planet.
If he were the size of a cat, he'd be the most dangerous thing on our planet.
They can take rocks within the caves, and they can slice them and look at the layers within with rocks, much like the rings of a tree, and they can count back in history and learn about the climate on our planet at very different times.
Our water planet is not just rivers, lakes and oceans, but it's this vast network of groundwater that knits us all together.
And when we can understand our human connections with our groundwater and all of our water resources on this planet, then we'll be working on the problem that's probably the most important issue of this century.
If you're wondering why our planet doesn't seem to be glowing, it's because the Earth doesn't emit visible light.
Water is essential to life on this planet.
Its gross wastefulness, all this idle cash, should be energized to improve lives, to develop human talents, and indeed to finance all these technologies, green technologies, which are absolutely essential for saving planet Earth.
So if you think about it, the ocean is 71 percent of the planet, and blue light can extend down to almost a 1,000 meters.
This is the largest single monochromatic blue environment on our planet.
It may surprise you that NASA does not know exactly where their probes are going to touch down on another planet.
So life appeared on Earth within half a billion years of it being possible, which is short compared to the 10-billion-year lifetime of a planet of Earth type.
Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.
Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain inward-looking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.
You worry about the overpopulation of the planet.
It was tweeted more than nine million times last year, and it is deeply hurtful to me and my four and a half million fellow athletes around the planet.
But to understand how this precious metal became embedded in our planet to start with, we have to gaze upwards at the stars.
Instead of arising from the planet's rocky crust, it was actually cooked up in space and is present on Earth because of cataclysmic stellar explosions called supernovae.
And there are a lot of great, sustainable fishing initiatives across the planet working towards better practices and better-managed fisheries.
And you can farm fish in a very healthy manner that's good for us, good for the planet and good for the fish.
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