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If a long-lost cousin from Venus were to visit, how warm would we have to keep the house? If we tuned into radio station MARS, what would the weather report be like? On Jupiter, would our enormous weight allow us to do pushups? How long would we have to wait in cold darkness before we celebrated our first birthday on Pluto?
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© 1997 David H. Levy, Larry A. Lebofsky, and Nancy R. Lebofsky
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Levy, D.H., Lebofsky, L.A., Lebofsky, N.R. (1997). Planets as Places. In: Sharing the Sky. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6371-0_9
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