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Eggshell Exoplanets: Rocky Worlds with Ultra-Thin Brittle Lithospheres Could Theoretically Exist

Added: 11.11.2021 20:38 | 202 views | 0 comments

Source: www.jpl.nasa.gov
Source: www.jpl.nasa.gov

The thickness of the brittle lithosphere - the outer portion of a planetary body that fails via fracturing - plays a key role in the geological processes of that body. The properties of both a planet and its host star can influence that thickness, and the potential range of those properties exceeds what researchers see [...]

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