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It is difficult to overstate the profundity of the change in our perception of the planets during a single generation in the latter part of the twentieth century. The revolution is second only to that in the generation from Copernicus to Kepler at the end the sixteenth century. The very character of the scientific questions changed as the planets went from being astronomical objects to geological objects.
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Hartmann, W.K. (2001). The terrestrial planets at the dawn of the space age. In: Bleeker, J.A.M., Geiss, J., Huber, M.C.E. (eds) The Century of Space Science. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0320-9_10
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