Claire Guimond
Dr. Claire Marie Guimond is a planetary scientist and exogeoscientist at ETH Zurich and a Brownlee Junior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, where she uses mantle convection models to study exoplanet geology, lava worlds, and rocky planet evolution.
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Jul 28, 2026
Claire GuimondGUEST
Well, it comes down to the fact that rocks behave the same anywhere in the universe, and this is actually the, this principle of geology that you're taught as an undergraduate geology students, where the whole reason why we can study Earth and the past is because we know that rocks are behaving the same way four billion years ago as they are today.
Claire GuimondGUEST
We know that mantles are conducting, so this is the solid rock that's making up most of the interior of the planet.
Claire GuimondGUEST
It's conducting just like a kettle on the stove because it's heated and it has to, um, become buoyant and rise.
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