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Sep 2023
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Subsurface oceans: The hidden potential ...

The Planetary Society
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Lujendra Ojha, assistant professor at Rutgers University, joins Planetary Radio to discuss how subsurface liquid water on exoplanets orbiting red dwarf stars could increase the likelihood of finding habitable worlds beyond our Solar System. 
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