Astronomy
How Visiting Venus Will Help Us Find Life on Distant Planets
What Venus can teach us about planets far beyond our own solar system
M. Darby Dyar is a mineral spectroscopist who studies extraterrestrial minerals and glasses from the moon, Mars, comets and asteroids. She is a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute and Kennedy-Schelkunoff Professor of Astronomy at Mount Holyoke College. Credit: Nick Higgins
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