Planet Ceres is an 'ocean world' with sea water beneath surface, mission finds
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#2Ceres is one of the more interesting candidates for life in our solar system. Ceres is in the habitable zone for our solar system (although just barely), it's surface temperature is -30 F (eq. to winter in Greenland), and it's detected that the water on the surface is 20% carbon by mass (though that can mean a lot of things).
Re: Planet Ceres is an 'ocean world' with sea water beneath surface, mission finds
#3It's not a planet is it? If Pluto is not a planet, Ceres certainly is not either.
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#4It's not a planet is it? If Pluto is not a planet, Ceres certainly is not either.
The first paragraph uses the term “dwarf planet”.
Re: Planet Ceres is an 'ocean world' with sea water beneath surface, mission finds
#5man, so many planets have subsurface oceans, there must be a lot of species of eyeless space whales across the universe
Re: Planet Ceres is an 'ocean world' with sea water beneath surface, mission finds
#6Ceres is one of the more interesting candidates for life in our solar system. Ceres is in the habitable zone for our solar system (although just barely), it's surface temperature is -30 F (eq. to winter in Greenland), and it's detected that the water on the surface is 20% carbon by mass (though that can mean a lot of things).
The question is whether there is a source of energy for that subsurface ocean. If it's geologically dead the entire thing could be uniformly quite cold. Unlike some of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn it's not headed by gravitational tidal effects.
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#7spaceX when? 2048?
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#8Ceres is one of the more interesting candidates for life in our solar system. Ceres is in the habitable zone for our solar system (although just barely), it's surface temperature is -30 F (eq. to winter in Greenland), and it's detected that the water on the surface is 20% carbon by mass (though that can mean a lot of things).
I had to stand around waiting for a bus in 0 F for a few years of my life. Did not detect any life around that bus stop.
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#9man, so many planets have subsurface oceans, there must be a lot of species of eyeless space whales across the universe
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Re: Planet Ceres is an 'ocean world' with sea water beneath surface, mission finds
#10Ceres is one of the more interesting candidates for life in our solar system. Ceres is in the habitable zone for our solar system (although just barely), it's surface temperature is -30 F (eq. to winter in Greenland), and it's detected that the water on the surface is 20% carbon by mass (though that can mean a lot of things).
I had to stand around waiting for a bus in 0 F for a few years of my life. Did not detect any life around that bus stop.
This is an excellent microcosm of the problems searchers of extraterrestrial intelligence face.