| Despite being closest to the sun, Mercury is the most ignored terrestrial planet in the solar system. |
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| This terrestrial planet is roughly 2.82 times the mass of Earth and orbits within the star's habitable zone. |
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| Liquid water is one of the most important materials affecting the climate and habitability of a terrestrial planet. |
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| First is the classical scenario in which the giant planets begin roughly in their final locations and the disk of planetesimals and embryos in the terrestrial planet region extends all the way into the outer asteroid belt region. |
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| Even if there is no native Mars life, still, it's our only chance to see what happens to a terrestrial planet, left to billions of years, if it doesn't develop life. |
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| Statistically speaking, this means that a randomly placed alien outside the solar system has a 1 in 40 chance of observing a single terrestrial planet in our solar system. |
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| Scientists see Titan as a complex world, closer to a terrestrial planet than a moon typical of the outer planetary systems. |
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| Even if a terrestrial planet does exist in the Goldilocks zone it would be peppered with asteroid impacts. |
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| The question that excites many researchers is whether we will find some small terrestrial planet that is long past its gaseous stage. |
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| Jupiter is orbited by Io, a body wracked by intense volcanism, while Saturn's largest moon, Titan a body larger than the terrestrial planet Mercury exhibits a primitive atmosphere denser than that of Earth. |
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| Anglada-Escudé and his colleagues estimate that Proxima b is at least 1.3 times as big as Earth and is most likely a terrestrial planet, with a surface. |
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