Scientists Found a Fantastic Ocean Planet Close to Earth
Okay, here you are in the middle of the The Ocean it's endless, but you can't see it. Because there's a thick fog all around Your dense clouds hide the huge but dim.
Is the sun day or night? You don't know. There's only a gray haze around you. You're alone even if you try to swim. down after several hours, you still won't Be able to see the bottom of the Ocean. And that's a typical water plant for You, I know, sounded kind of dark, but it's Not that bad these water worlds are more Interesting than they may seem, so let's Take a look at them.
The ocean planet is A planet that consists as you might have guessed mainly of water ice and maybe Some rocks think of the Earth's oceans. Its horrifying depths, the Mariana Trench and all that, and now can you. Guess how much space all the water on Earth takes up 0.025 percent exactly now.
Just try to Imagine a world of 40 to 60 where water. If you dive in there, the depth can Exceed 60 miles compared to the Six The mile depth of our Mariana Trench sounds like nothing, and yeah, the pressure there It will be enormous.
It can reach up to 20 000 Earth's atmosphere is very crushing now It may sound scary, but it still would be great to find out more about these planets, fortunately, according to Scientist calculations show there may be a a lot of such planets in our galaxy alone Well, you don't have to go far.
You can Find these water guys even in our solar the system, not planets, of course, but moons Jupiter has Ganymede and Callisto and Saturn has Titan and Enceladus, the Ocean. can reach up to 30 percent of the mass Of these moons, although it is unclear.
Whether these oceans are covered with a a Thick crust of ice, but we've discovered quite a few full-fledged ocean planets This is because the conditions in which These planets may exist very. Specifically, for example, this Planet should Be somewhere six to eight times larger.
Then the Earth. If it's smaller, it'll Have a rocky surface, but if it's bigger. It'll turn into a gas giant at the same. The time it must be in the habitable zone of its star a little further, and the Planet immediately turns into an icy giant or a Cold super-Earth, so yeah, these guys are very picky We first started exploring these planets.
Back in the 1970s however, since then we Found only a couple of them, but they're still very interesting, the first Planet It is legalized in 1214 b. It was the very first Ocean planet that we discovered Initially, the scientists noticed only a Small dim dot. This dot turned out to be the red dwarf star lease 1214 an unremarkable, completely ordinary star That's five times smaller than our Sun.
and 300 times dimmer, scientists wouldn't I do not worry about it at all, but back in 2009 They noticed that this star had one. Single Planet and this Planet turned out. To be quite strange, this super-Earth was two and a half times bigger than our Earth and six and a half times heavier But at the same time, it had a very, very.
Small density and about the same gravity As our Planet. In other words, there were almost no rocks and metals on it but it It wasn't a gas giant either, so there was Only one option left. It was covered in Water and eyes, and that's how we discovered the first ocean planet well Actually, we can only assume that it.
Consists of water. That's what the Mathematical calculations say in reality. This Planet is quite confusing. It's difficult to explore and so far Scientists haven't been able to find anything there, no hydrogen, no helium, no Water NADA that's because of the router.
A layer of the atmosphere of this Planet It is very dense, and it is perfectly High its Composition, but even so, it's probably a water world Glis 1214b is very close to its star. It's only 0.014 astronomical units away.
Which is less than the distance between The Moon and us, the year there last about 36 hours, and the temperatures to To put it mildly, they are just wild scientists. Suggest that the average temperature There can reach 250 to 535 degrees.
Fahrenheit that's hot. Remember the creepy description from the beginning well actually spending time on Khaleesi 1214b would be a little different, more like swimming in a steam boiler because of such gigantic temperatures of the Ocean on the surface will constantly be in a state close to Boiling without actually reaching it so Imagine that you're descending to the the surface of this Planet flying through clouds of Steam, and then you suddenly Find yourself in the water, but when Did it happen?
Well, that's because the boundary between Steam and water on Gliese 1214b will be very blurred of Course you won't be able to swim to the bottom of this Ocean, but most likely This bottom is covered with a very thick a Layer of so-called hot eyes, it's like Regular eyes, but it doesn't really care.
About the laws of physics, so it just doesn't melt even at gigantic temperatures and the thickness of this Ice can reach as much as 3 000 miles so I hope that's it for the creepy glossy. 1214b, and not an Airbnb in sight now although we can't 100 guarantees that It's a water world.
We still have another. The candidate for this position is new. A discovered a planet called toi 1452b. a planet located in the dragon Constellation is almost 100 light-years Away from us, it was discovered using the test telescope by a group of researchers from the University of Montreal this The Planet also belongs to the class of Super-Earths it's seven times larger then our Planet but 48 times heavier Again all this is at a very low density.
Because of this scientists have Suggested that almost the entire Planet Consists of a giant ocean. Here we were a Little luckier, this world won't be just. a giant puddle and some thick eyes on This Planet there's probably a rocky surface deep under the water.
Just like in a typical ocean, don't get too excited Though this Ocean will certainly be Very different from what we're used to I 1452b also orbits a small red dwarf and not even one but two at once at the same Time if the previous Planet was close to Its Sun, then this one, on the contrary, is Very very far away, it's two and a half.
Times farther from its Stars than Pluto It is from the Sun, and it moves great. Speed a year, there lasts only 11 days. But we still don't know many things. About this Planet, we'll probably get some new information when scientists Observe it from the James Webb Telescope Well, that's it wait did you expect something else.
All right, all right I Know the question that bothers you the Most can there be a life well this is a a Difficult question. We all know that. Water means life and besides these. Planets are in the habitable zones of Their Stars, so potentially, yes, there.
It might be life, not some full-fledged. civilizations, of course, but bacteria fish and some creepy giant monsters I Mean you know why not; however, this is Very unlikely water alone isn't enough. To create life even though it's very.
Important. There should also be some. microelements and some minerals and unfortunately, for most water planets the The Composition will only consist of water. And very thick eyes, there won't be any. Minerals are there but don't give up.
There are still some probability first of all There are meteorites and comets that can Bring the necessary minerals to the planet the more often they crash into it the higher the probability that they'll Bring something like this into the Ocean.
And thus create life secondly toi 1452b Actually, as these minerals, yes, we don't Know how deep the rocky bottom is Located there, but if it exists, then. Surely something could have originated. There let's hope that new research with Powerful telescopes will allow us to Find out the truth, and who knows, maybe. One day we'll be able to visit such a planet ourselves.
Source : Bright Side