Habitability

Another thing to remember is the faint early Sun paradox: the Sun was substantially fainter early it its life.

That means that its luminosity and temperature were lower, which means that the temperature at Earth would have been substantially lower (except for the fact of the CO2 atmosphere).

In other words, the habitable zone moves as a function of time in the Solar System.

The last term to learn is the continuous habitable zone, the region of the Solar System where liquid water has always been possible throughout the entire age of the Solar System.

This stuff will be on Homework 5 (I think) for you to calculate and understand the details of.

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