While NASA proposes a mission to the moon of Neptune, Triton, which could have an ocean that can support life, scientists believe that Neptune and Uranus are “primarily” composed of an alien form of water.
Scientists have developed a computer model to prevent “thermal and electrical processes occurring under physical conditions” on the giant ice planets.
In the model, the researchers saw the conduction of electricity and heat from water “under extreme conditions of temperature and pressure”, with implications for both planets, as well as other exoplanets outside the solar system.
“Hydrogen and oxygen are the most common elements in the Universe, along with helium. It is easy to deduce that water is one of the most important constituents of many celestial bodies, “said Federico Grasselli and Stefano Baroni, two of the researchers in a statement. Ganymede and Europe, satellites of Jupiter, and Enceladus, satellite of Saturn, present icy surfaces beneath which lie oceans of water. Neptune and Uranus are also likely to be composed primarily of water. ”
NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft gave mankind its first glimpse of Neptune and its moon, Triton, in the summer of 1989. This image, taken at a distance of 4.4 million miles from the planet, shows the Great Dark Spot and his companion lighted flesh. These clouds were seen persisting as long as Voyager’s cameras could resolve them. (Credit: NASA)
SCIENCES ARE BIND THAT THE ‘SMOKE POINT’ THAT URANUS WORKS FOREVER
The researchers – with the International School for Advanced Studies in Italy and UCLA – looked at the three possible phases of water that could exist on the planets – ice, liquid and superionic, and found that the findings should give scientists new ideas on what to do. search.
“In such exotic physical conditions, we can not think of ice as we are used to. Even water is actually different, denser, with different molecules dissociating into positive and negative ions, and thus carrying an electric charge, “the researchers said.
“Superionic water lies somewhere between the liquid and solid phases: the oxygen atoms of the H2O molecule are organized in a crystalline lattice, while hydrogen atoms diffuse freely as in a charged liquid.”
Experts believe that Uranus could have a “frozen core”, which could explain why it is not completely.
This is an image of the planet Uranus, taken by the spaceship Voyager 2, which in January 1986 flew close to the seventh planet from the sun. (Credit: NASA)
In addition, the electrical conductivity found for the superionic phase is much greater than assumed in earlier models of magnetic field generation in Uranus and Neptune.
Since superionic water is thought to dominate the dense and slow planetary layers beneath the convective fluid region where its magnetic field is generated, this new evidence may have a major impact on the study of the geometry and evolution of the magnetic fields of the planets.
The study was published in the journal Nature Communications.
NASA WANTS TO EXPLORE THE MOON, TRITON, NEPTUNE, WHICH CAN SUPPORT OCEAN LIFE
In April 2019, NASA announced that almost 30 years after sending a spacecraft to Uranus and Neptune, it looks set to return.
One month earlier, scientists at NASA JPL proposed a mission that would examine Neptune’s largest moon, Triton, which some could theoretically have hidden an ocean beneath the surface.
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Uranus and Neptune have been relatively unexplored, despite the fact that Voyager snapped 2 photos of both planets in 1986 and 1989.
