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<blockquote data-quote="Opmmur" data-source="post: 57288" data-attributes="member: 13"><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ffffff">Breaking News</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ffffff">Habitable Planets Could Be Much More Widespread In The Universe Than Previously Understood</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #ffffff">By University Of Aberdeen</span></p><p><span style="color: #ffffff">Sep 10, 2012 - 3:46:15 PM</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><img src="http://www.earthchangesmedia.com/artman2/uploads/3/Potential-Habitable-Exoplanets.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ffffff">A new scientific model to understand the amount of our universe which is habitable developed by University of Aberdeen scientists is being announced today at the British Science Festival.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ffffff">Vast areas of environment which support life are known to exist in the Earth’s subsurface but until now understanding of habitable environments on other planets has only taken into account their surfaces. The new model could vastly increase where we could expect to find life.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ffffff">Sean McMahon from the University of Aberdeen’s School of Geosciences said: “Life ‘as we know it’ requires liquid water. Traditionally, planets have been considered ‘habitable’ if they are in the ‘Goldilocks zone’. They need to be not too close to their sun but also not too far away for liquid water to persist, rather than boiling or freezing, on the surface. However, we now know that many micro-organisms—perhaps half of all living things on Earth—reside deep in the rocky crust of the planet, not on the surface.â€</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ffffff">Suns warm planet surfaces but heat also comes from planet interiors. Crust temperature increases with depth so planets that are too cold for liquid water on the surface may be sufficiently warm underground to support life.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ffffff">Sean McMahon continues: “We have developed a new model to show how ‘Goldilocks zones’ can be calculated for underground water and hence life. Our model shows that habitable planets could be much more widespread than previously thought.â€</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Opmmur, post: 57288, member: 13"] [SIZE=4][COLOR=#ffffff]Breaking News[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=#ffffff]Habitable Planets Could Be Much More Widespread In The Universe Than Previously Understood[/COLOR][/SIZE] [COLOR=#ffffff]By University Of Aberdeen[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ffffff]Sep 10, 2012 - 3:46:15 PM[/COLOR] [IMG]http://www.earthchangesmedia.com/artman2/uploads/3/Potential-Habitable-Exoplanets.jpg[/IMG] [SIZE=4][COLOR=#ffffff]A new scientific model to understand the amount of our universe which is habitable developed by University of Aberdeen scientists is being announced today at the British Science Festival.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=#ffffff]Vast areas of environment which support life are known to exist in the Earth’s subsurface but until now understanding of habitable environments on other planets has only taken into account their surfaces. The new model could vastly increase where we could expect to find life.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=#ffffff]Sean McMahon from the University of Aberdeen’s School of Geosciences said: “Life ‘as we know it’ requires liquid water. Traditionally, planets have been considered ‘habitable’ if they are in the ‘Goldilocks zone’. They need to be not too close to their sun but also not too far away for liquid water to persist, rather than boiling or freezing, on the surface. However, we now know that many micro-organisms—perhaps half of all living things on Earth—reside deep in the rocky crust of the planet, not on the surface.â€[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=#ffffff]Suns warm planet surfaces but heat also comes from planet interiors. Crust temperature increases with depth so planets that are too cold for liquid water on the surface may be sufficiently warm underground to support life.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=#ffffff]Sean McMahon continues: “We have developed a new model to show how ‘Goldilocks zones’ can be calculated for underground water and hence life. Our model shows that habitable planets could be much more widespread than previously thought.â€[/COLOR][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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