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Dune: What the climate of Arrakis can tell us about the hunt for habitable exoplanets

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Dune: What the climate of Arrakis can tell us about the hunt for habitable exoplanets

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Frank Herbert’s Dune is epic sci-fi storytelling with an environmental message at its heart. The novels and movies are set on the desert planet of Arrakis, which various characters dream of transforming into a greener world – much like some envision for Mars today.

We investigated Arrakis using a climate model, a computer program similar to those used to give weather forecasts. We found the world that Herbert had created, well before climate models even existed, was remarkably accurate – and would be habitable, if not hospitable.

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