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Can Viruses Travel Between Planets?
Season 6
Episode 18
In the midst of a pandemic, we sure are thinking about viruses a lot. That’s right, even astrophysicists are pondering these bizarre little critters. In fact, astrovirology, although very new, is actually an emerging subfield of astrobiology. And that’s because it turns out viruses don’t just influence organisms - they’re incredibly important on a planetary scale. Perhaps an interplanetary scale.
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