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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.

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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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Pierrehumbert, R. Strange news from other stars. Nature Geosci 6, 81–83 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1711

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