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Oct 2021
56m 17s

Cosmic Queries – Space Volcanoes: Fire a...

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
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What’s a supervolcano? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Matt Kirshen discover all types of volcanoes in the solar system with cosmochemist and author of Fire and Ice, Natalie Starkey. Is there such a thing as an ice volcano? 
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