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Can we detect plate tectonics on exoplanets?

Posted on January 2, 2020 by Chris Rowan

As celebrated in this Ars Technica piece, the 2010s was ‘the decade of the exoplanet’. Largely thanks to the Kepler telescope, the past ten years has seen an explosion in exoplanet discoveries. More than 4000 planets have now been identified orbiting other stars, … Continue reading →

Categories: geology, planets, tectonics, volcanoes