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A 2011 study found that not only are life-sustaining desert planets possible, but that they may even be more common than Earth-like planets. Models made by the scientists in the study found that desert planets had a much larger Goldilocks Zone than watery planets. The study also suggested that Venus may once have been a habitable desert planet, as recently as a billion years back, and that the Earth may become a desert planet within a billion years due to the Sun’s increasing luminosity. Perhaps, we’d best pay Rey’s survival skills more attention.
The Science of Star Wars: The Scientific Facts Behind the Force, Space Travel, and More!
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