Carl Sagan, NASA (IMAGE)

Georgia Institute of Technology

Carl Sagan, NASA

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Famed late NASA astronomer Carl Sagan first hypothesized that the reason early Earth stayed warm although the sun shone dimly had to do with a greenhouse effect involving a gas mixture different from that in Earth's atmosphere today.

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