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"SUPER-EARTHS" STUDY REVEALS WEIRD NEW OCEANS WITH POTENTIAL FOR LIFE

"SUPER-EARTHS" STUDY REVEALS WEIRD NEW OCEANS WITH POTENTIAL FOR LIFE Earth-type and icy moons are what we know best, but these worlds outweigh them by far. By Brian Koberlein  “It’s easy to think of Earth as a water world, with its vast oceans and beautiful lakes, but compared to many worlds, Earth is particularly wet. Even the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn have far more liquid water than Earth. Earth is unusual not because it has liquid water but because it has liquid water in the warm habitable zone of the Sun. And as a new study in Nature Communications shows, Earth could be even more unusual than we thought.” NASA  It’s easy to think of Earth as a water world, with its vast oceans and beautiful lakes, but compared to many worlds, Earth is particularly wet. Even the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn have far more liquid water than Earth. Earth is unusual not because it has liquid water but because it has liquid water in the warm habitable zone of the Sun. And