Outer Planets
Outer Planets
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Outer Planets
Beneath Europa’s fractured ice may be an ocean containing more liquid water than all of Earth’s oceans combined, kept warm in complete darkness by the gravitational pull of Jupiter
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Juno survives repeated dives through Jupiter’s lethal radiation belts by hiding its electronic brain inside a 180-kilogram titanium vault — because an ordinary spacecraft computer would quickly fail in the storm of high-energy particles
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Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, is sealed beneath a shell of ice, but the ocean hidden below may contain twice as much liquid water as every ocean on Earth combined — and Jupiter’s gravity may have kept it liquid for billions of years
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The discovery at the Solar System's frozen edge that deepened a long-running astronomical puzzle, casting new doubt on 'Planet Nine' — the giant, unseen world some astronomers believe is quietly tugging at the most distant orbits
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Astronomers at Cambridge have proposed that the galaxy may contain a vast and previously unrecognised population of habitable planets, characterised by a global liquid water ocean beneath a hydrogen atmosphere, that exist across a far wider range of stellar conditions than Earth-like worlds and that may be substantially easier to detect signs of life on than the Earth analogues that astronomers have been searching for over the past three decades
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There is a planet 63 light-years from Earth where the rain is made of molten glass, the winds blow at 7,000 kilometres per hour, the daytime temperature is over 1,000 degrees Celsius, and the planet itself, viewed from space, is the same deep blue as Earth.
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Simple collapse may build cosmic snowman worlds
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Europa ice delamination may deliver nutrients to hidden ocean
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Jupiter size refined by new radio mapping
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Study links Europa's quiet seafloor to hidden potential for life
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Birth conditions fixed water contrast on Jupiters moons
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Computer models let scientists peer into the mystery beneath Jupiter's clouds
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Polar weather on Jupiter and Saturn hints at the planets' interior details
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Uranus and Neptune may be rock rich worlds
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