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Sara Seager on searching for Earth-like planets
Sara Seager, the Ellen Swallow Richards Associate Professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
MIT planetary scientist discusses projects that aim to discover distant planets similar to our own, and what we can learn when we find them
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