Not exact matches
But a few billion years ago a slightly fainter sun might have allowed for a relatively cool Venus, one
where liquid water could have pooled in vast
oceans that were friendly to life.
These three exoplanets orbit in the star's habitable zone, the narrow corridor
where temperatures are mild enough to permit
liquid lakes and
oceans that don't boil away or freeze.
Martian colonies could pack up the spaceship and relocate to Jupiter's moon Europa,
where scientists believe a large
ocean of
liquid water hides beneath an icy crust.
That such a lake can even exist lends empirical support to a seemingly blue - sky proposal: Inject excess atmospheric CO2 deep into the
ocean,
where the high pressure would trap the gas in a
liquid form.
The study, according to Valley, strengthens the theory of a «cool early Earth,»
where temperatures were low enough for
liquid water,
oceans and a hydrosphere not long after the planet's crust congealed from a sea of molten rock.
You state in the response to # 10, ``... There is no surprise that the CO2 in the atmosphere winds up partially in the
oceans, nor that the amount of CO2 going into or coming out of the
oceans varies in time and space — that's simple equilibrium chemistry between the
liquid (that is, dissolved) and gaseous phases...» Are the buffers a part of simple equilibrium chemistry, and
where can I go to read up on this and how it pertains to the Models.
Turbulence in both the
ocean and the inviscid mantle (the part that flows freely like a
liquid), as well as frictional drag at the core - mantle and mantle - crust boundaries
where the mantle starts to solidify due respectively to increasing pressure and decreasing temperature, should account for most of this dissipation.
Sound travels in air like waves in the fluid
liquid water of the
ocean, the sound will cause a molecule to vibrate more energetically
where it is, it then causes its neighbour to vibrate more energetically and itself will go back to ground state, like a mexican wave the energy of the sound is passed along through the volume of air.
Could there be something like «CO2 weather» on the bottom of the
ocean,
where it rains
liquid CO2?
I recall reading an article
where a team of Japanese Scientists found a pool of
liquid CO2 in the deep
ocean.