Ciencia-Física

 
 
“These planets are unlike anything in our solar system. They have endless oceans,” said lead author Lisa Kaltenegger of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and the CfA. “There may be life there, but could it be technology-based like ours?

Esta ilustración artística muestra cómo el viento solar da forma a las magnetosferas de Venus (arriba), la Tierra (centro) y Marte (abajo). Crédito: ESA. (El viento solar y el electromagnetismo.

 
 
One key factor in maintaining a liquid water biosphere on a planet over billions of years is its distance from the Sun, or whatever star it may be orbiting. If it is in too close, then, like Venus, its oceans will boil away.