An Ocean Moon Thought to Be Habitable May Be Oxygen-Starved
www.nytimes.com
A new study suggests that the amount of the element on the moon of Jupiter is on the lower end of previous estimates.
  • FishLake@lemmygrad.ml
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    10 months ago

    Typo in title. ‘Inhabitable’ means it’s suitable for life, which is not what the study says. You meant to say ‘uninhabitable’.

    • SevenOfWine@startrek.website
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      10 months ago

      Article:

      “It’s on the lower end of what we would expect,” said Jamey Szalay, a plasma physicist at Princeton University who led the study. But “it’s not totally prohibitive” for habitability, he added. ... “We don’t really know how much oxygen you need to make life,” she said. “So the fact that it’s lower than some earlier, wishful-thinking estimates is not such a problem.”