Tides, planetary companions, and habitability: habitability in the habitable zone of low-mass stars [PDF]
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2014 Earth-scale planets in the classical habitable zone (HZ) are more likely to be habitable if they possess active geophysics. Without a constant internal energy source, planets cool as they age, eventually terminating tectonic activity and rendering the planet sterile to life.
Richard Greenberg +3 more
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Habitable Zones in Binary Star Systems: A Zoology
Galaxies, 2020 Several concepts have been brought forward to determine where terrestrial planets are likely to remain habitable in multi-stellar environments. Isophote-based habitable zones, for instance, rely on insolation geometry to predict habitability, whereas ...
Siegfried Eggl +2 more
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Habitability Models for Planetary Sciences
, 2020 Habitability has been generally defined as the capability of an environment to support life. Ecologists have been using Habitat Suitability Models (HSMs) for more than four decades to study the habitability of Earth from local to global scales. Astrobiologists have been proposing different habitability models for some time, with little integration and ...
Méndez, Abel +34 more
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Survival of habitable planets in unstable planetary systems [PDF]
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2016 Accepted to ...
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Energetics of the Citric Acid Cycle in the Deep Biosphere
Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 303-327., 2020 This book is Open Access. A digital copy can be downloaded for free from Wiley Online Library.
Explores the behavior of carbon in minerals, melts, and fluids under extreme conditions
Carbon trapped in diamonds and carbonate-bearing rocks in subduction zones are examples of the continuing exchange of substantial carbon ...
Peter A. Canovas III, Everett L. Shock
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Spectroscopic Detection of Biosignatures in Natural Ice Samples as a Proxy for Icy Moons
Life, 2023 Some of the icy moons of the solar system with a subsurface ocean, such as Europa and Enceladus, are the targets of future space missions that search for potential extraterrestrial life forms.
Francisco Calapez +6 more
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Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists, 2023 Tectonics is the scientific discipline that studies the relationship between planetary convection and surface deformation and magmatism. In recent years global tectonic regimes and planetary evolution have become foci of astronomical and planetological ...
Robert Stern, Taras Gerya, Paul Tackley
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THE ROLE OF CARBON IN EXTRASOLAR PLANETARY GEODYNAMICS AND HABITABILITY [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2014 9 pages, 9 figures; Formatting fixed for figure ...
Cayman T. Unterborn +4 more
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Degassing of CO2 triggers large-scale loss of helium from magma oceans
Communications Earth & EnvironmentThe moon-forming impact caused widespread melting and vaporization of the proto-Earth, leading to the formation of a protolunar disk1,2. Volatile elements trapped in the inner parts of the disk condensed together with heavier elements into a global magma
Anne H. Davis, Razvan Caracas
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Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2020 Icy moons in our solar system are targets of interest to search for signs of life and habitability beyond Earth. They are the astrobiological aim for several developing space missions (JUICE, Europa Clipper, and Europa Lander). A further understanding of
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