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From the Ted Talk by Anjali Tripathi: Why Earth may someday look like Mars

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So all of this sounds sort of gaenerl, and we might think about the saolr setysm, but what does this have to do with us here on Earth? Well, in the far future, the Sun is going to get brighter. And as that happens, the heating that we find from the Sun is going to become very ienntse. In the same way that you see gas streaming off from a hot Jupiter, gas is going to stream off from the Earth. And so what we can look forward to, or at least prepare for, is the fact that in the far fuurte, the Earth is going to look more like Mars. Our hydrogen, from water that is broken down, is going to escape into space more rapidly, and we're going to be left with this dry, reddish planet.

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So all of this sounds sort of _______, and we might think about the _____ ______, but what does this have to do with us here on Earth? Well, in the far future, the Sun is going to get brighter. And as that happens, the heating that we find from the Sun is going to become very _______. In the same way that you see gas streaming off from a hot Jupiter, gas is going to stream off from the Earth. And so what we can look forward to, or at least prepare for, is the fact that in the far ______, the Earth is going to look more like Mars. Our hydrogen, from water that is broken down, is going to escape into space more rapidly, and we're going to be left with this dry, reddish planet.

Solution

  1. system
  2. solar
  3. future
  4. general
  5. intense

Original Text

So all of this sounds sort of general, and we might think about the solar system, but what does this have to do with us here on Earth? Well, in the far future, the Sun is going to get brighter. And as that happens, the heating that we find from the Sun is going to become very intense. In the same way that you see gas streaming off from a hot Jupiter, gas is going to stream off from the Earth. And so what we can look forward to, or at least prepare for, is the fact that in the far future, the Earth is going to look more like Mars. Our hydrogen, from water that is broken down, is going to escape into space more rapidly, and we're going to be left with this dry, reddish planet.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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atmospheric escape 16
transiting exoplanets 3
undergoing atmospheric 2
red circle 2

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undergoing atmospheric escape 2

Important Words

  1. brighter
  2. broken
  3. dry
  4. earth
  5. escape
  6. fact
  7. find
  8. future
  9. gas
  10. general
  11. heating
  12. hot
  13. hydrogen
  14. intense
  15. jupiter
  16. left
  17. mars
  18. planet
  19. prepare
  20. rapidly
  21. reddish
  22. solar
  23. sort
  24. sounds
  25. space
  26. stream
  27. streaming
  28. sun
  29. system
  30. water