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
Suzanne E. Smrekar studies the different evolutionary paths for rocky planets, with occasional fieldwork at volcanoes. She is a senior research scientist and deputy principal investigator of the InSight and VERITAS Missions at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where the mountain biking is awesome. Credit: Nick Higgins
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