A New Way to Characterize Habitable Planets
December 29, 2023
December 29, 2023
PASADENA, California, Dec. 29 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news:
For decades, science fiction authors have imagined scenarios in which life thrives on the harsh surfaces of Mars or our Moon, or in the oceans below the icy surfaces of Saturn's moon Enceladus and Jupiter's moon Europa. But the study of habitability--the conditions required to support and sustain life--is not just confined to the pages of fiction. As more planetary bodies in . . .
For decades, science fiction authors have imagined scenarios in which life thrives on the harsh surfaces of Mars or our Moon, or in the oceans below the icy surfaces of Saturn's moon Enceladus and Jupiter's moon Europa. But the study of habitability--the conditions required to support and sustain life--is not just confined to the pages of fiction. As more planetary bodies in . . .