Ceres is an ocean world, astrobiology implications

[notFritzArgelander]

https://phys.org/news/2020-08-dwarf-pla ... world.html

[helicon]

I just saw this article in my facebook feed. Pretty cool and not really expected!

[KingNothing13]

I just saw this article in my facebook feed. Pretty cool and not really expected!

Me too - I haven't actually read it yet - but was blown away by the headline. Some interesting implications there, if true.

[jrkirkham]

I didn't expect this. It is an interesting article. I imagine we will hear more about this study.

[notFritzArgelander]

Here's another article from physics.org on the same topic:

https://phys.org/news/2020-08-mystery-b ... salty.html

[KingNothing13]

I wonder if it would be worth it for NASA (or ESA, or other agency) to try and plan an actual mission to land on it. Seems like there could be a lot to unlock there - certainly a lot more complicated than previously thought.

[notFritzArgelander]

I wonder if it would be worth it for NASA (or ESA, or other agency) to try and plan an actual mission to land on it. Seems like there could be a lot to unlock there - certainly a lot more complicated than previously thought.

I wholeheartedly agree.

[ThinkerX]

I wonder...suppose Ceres was a bit more massive than Mars and orbiting a shade closer to the Sun than the red planet. Perhaps a really cold but mostly unfrozen ocean planet?

[Greenman]

Very interesting articles; thanks for posting a whole new dwarf plant of possibilities out there. Any Idea what the surface temperature is, I didn’t see that.

[notFritzArgelander]

Very interesting articles; thanks for posting a whole new dwarf plant of possibilities out there. Any Idea what the surface temperature is, I didn’t see that.

Day temperatures are around -73 C.