Quicker than you can say “Sarah Connor”, Michael Franco has found compelling research proving a science fiction trope for tidally-locked planets. Y’know the ones where one side faces the parent star and the other has constant night, but the crepuscular band known as the terminator is human-habitable? Ana Lobo and pals turned Earth into one in a simulation, and quite possibly turned the search for exoplanets on its ear. Our solar system kinda-sorta has a tidally-locked planet — Venus. She has many secrets hidden beneath her nebulous veils, but geophysicist Robert Herrick has detected Proof Of Active Volacnos On Venus at long last! A remarkable revelation thirty years in the making and David Rothery has the 411 on this momentous development. (CS)
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