#terrestrialplanets — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #terrestrialplanets, aggregated by home.social.
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Mercury has a 10-mile-thick layer of diamonds under its surface
Mercury does not look like a world built for extravagance. It is small, battered, sun-scorched and gray. Yet…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Space #core-mantleboundary #graphiteonMercury #KULeuven #mercury #Mercurydiamonds #MESSENGERmission #OlivierNamur #planetarygeology #PlanetaryScience #Research #Science #solarsystem #SpaceNews #terrestrialplanets
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Dissecting the puzzle of tectonic lid regimes in terrestrial planets: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65943-1 -> HKU Researchers Discover New Tectonic Regime of #TerrestrialPlanets,
Offering New Insights into the Evolution of Earth and Venus: https://www.hku.hk/press/press-releases/detail/28772.html -
Desert planet (Deserts 🏜️)
A desert planet, also known as a dry planet, an arid planet, or a dune planet, is a type of terrestrial planet with an arid surface consistency similar to Earth's deserts. Mars is a prominent example of a desert planet in the Solar System.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_planet
#DesertPlanet #Deserts #TerrestrialPlanets #ScienceFictionThemes #HypotheticalPlanetTypes
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Discovery Alert: Earth-sized Planet Has a ‘Lava Hemisphere’ https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/discovery-alert-earth-sized-planet-has-a-lava-hemisphere/ #NASA #ExoplanetDiscoveries #Exoplanets #TerrestrialPlanets #TESSTransitingExoplanetSurveySatellite