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The Role of Magma Oceans in Maintaining Surface Water on Rocky Planets Orbiting M-Dwarfs

by Keith Cowing

Earth-like planets orbiting M-dwarf stars, M-Earths, are currently the best targets to search for signatures of life. Life as we know it requires water. The habitability of M-Earths is jeopardized […]

Posted inAstrogeology, Atmospheres, Climate, Weather, Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Lava / magma ocean / Volcanic Worlds, Status Report

Solubility Of Water In Peridotite Liquids And The Prevalence Of Steam Atmospheres On Rocky Planets

by Keith Cowing

Atmospheres are products of time-integrated mass exchange between the surface of a planet and its interior. On Earth and other planetary bodies, magma oceans likely marked significant atmosphere-forming events, during […]

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