Ice moons in the outer solar system could have oceans that boil as water reaches the triple point where solid, liquid and gaseous water can coexist. The new models help us understand how surface features of moons like Mimas, Miranda or Titania are formed by internal processes. 🌌🌊❄️
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Looking Inside Icy Moons
The outer planets of the Solar System are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn’s moon Enceladus, are known to have oceans of liquid water between the ice shell and the rocky core and could be the best places in our solar system to look…
A small object past Pluto may have a thin atmosphere: « The possible atmosphere around 2002 XV93 would be a first for a small object beyond Pluto. »
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A small object past Pluto may have a thin atmosphere
A brief stellar eclipse suggests the tiny 2002 XV93 has a thin atmosphere — a first for any solar system body farther from the sun than Pluto.