The school included lectures on planetary habitability and the connections
between planetary interior and the atmosphere, hands - on activities, and a field trip.
Professor Ray Burgess, co-author and also from The University of Manchester, added: «The new simplified model we have developed is a big step forward in understanding how key ingredients essential for life were brought to our planet, including water that probably helped distribute the halogens
between the planetary interior and surface.»
Not exact matches
Planetary scientists hope that analysis of Phobos's regolith will shed light on the nature of the satellite's deep
interior because of the turnover
between the surface and the
interior over the eons.
Because the
interiors of icy
planetary bodies might also be salty, due to interactions
between the ice and the surrounding rocks or a liquid ocean, lead author Livia Eleonora Bove of the CNRS & Université Pierre et Marie Curie in France and the Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne in Switzerland and the rest of the team studied the effects of salts on the formation of the ice X from ice VII.