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  1. V Martín @[email protected] ·

    A recent new hypothesis for #WundaCrater: Occator-like salt deposits. Also positing an #AhunaMons analogue on Oberon.

    Scully, @SpaceWhaleRider et al: "Leveraging Ceres to Gain Insights into the Candidate Ocean Worlds of Umbriel and Oberon That Orbit Uranus"
    iopscience.iop.org/article/10.

    #UmbrielMoon

    #wundacrater #ahunamons #umbrielmoon
  2. V Martín @[email protected] ·

    If you, like me, were new to #WundaCrater in the latest #Umbriel posts by @PhilStooke :

    mastodon.social/@PhilStooke/11
    mastodon.social/@PhilStooke/11
    mastodon.social/@PhilStooke/11

    here's a 2017 paper on how it's most likely a cold trap for CO2 (Uranus' moons are also ~90° rotated so the equator gets the least Sun)

    Sori et al: "A Wunda-full world? Carbon dioxide ice deposits on Umbriel and
    other Uranian moons"
    lunar.earth.northwestern.edu/c

    #UmbrielMoon

    #wundacrater #umbriel #umbrielmoon