Oh, the #Irony. There are Likely #Water #Worlds Everywhere, but They're Covered in #ice and Impossible to Investigate

 

Oh, the Irony. There are Likely Water Worlds Everywhere, but They're Covered in ice and Impossible to Investigate

It's looking like there are many worlds across the Solar System with a large volume of water underneath a thick shell of ice. Not just Europa and Enceladus, but these conditions could be at Ganymede, Titan, and even Pluto and either Kuiper Belt Objects. And if you extrapolate this to the rest of the Milky Way, it means that most habitable places in the galaxy are liquid oceans under ice shells. The irony, of course, is trying to explore an ocean that's under kilometers of ice.

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