Icy Moons Are Ocean Worlds
45 points by worldvoyageur 13 hours ago | 4 comments
exhilaration 3 hours ago
Great read, other than Europa I wasn't aware of these other candidate ocean moons.
replymiohtama 6 hours ago
TIL
reply> The radiation environment around Europa is punishing; an astronaut standing on the surface would get a fatal dose in about a day
pvaldes 5 hours ago
Beautifully designed article. Very cool images and diagrams.
reply> We want rocks in contact with water,
But there is ice compressed between the water column and the xenoceanic bottom, ok. I see the problem.
What about rocks in the surface of the water?. Some volcanic rocks can float.