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A needle in countless haystacks: Finding habitable worlds - Ariel Anbar

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Out of billions of galaxies and billions of stars, how do we find Earth-like habitable worlds? What is essential to support life as we know it? Ariel Anbar provides a checklist for finding life on other planets.

What keeps the oceans in their place? Explain, in your own words, what would happen if the earth didn't have a strong enough gravitational pull.

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  • Educator Ariel Anbar
  • Director Jeremiah Dickey
  • Animator Lisa LaBracio
  • Producer TED-Ed
  • Narrator Ariel Anbar

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