Strange Exoplanet Has Ocean 500 Times Deeper Than Earth's

Strange Exoplanet Has Ocean 500 Times Deeper Than Earth's

A team led by researchers at the University of Montreal has found evidence that two exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf star are "water worlds," where water makes up a large fraction of the entire planet. These worlds, located in a planetary system 218 light-years away in the constellation Lyra, are unlike any planet found in our solar system.

Like the Earth, this exoplanet has an interior composed of metals and rocks but Kepler-138 d also has liquid water deep inside the planet .It's water layers make up more than 50% of its volume, or a depth of about 1,243 miles or 2,000 kilometers. The Earth, in comparison, has a negligible fraction of liquid water with an average ocean depth of less than 2.5 miles or 4 kilometers.

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[garrettrussell]

Time to send the space crafts that way now. And get pictures thousands of years later.

[lolo]

They know the depth of the water down to the mile on this new planet but still don't know ours LMAO

[OneHundredPercent]

That’s just Planet 4546B from Subnautica irl

[Energy-Alchemy]

This is truly mind blowing! The deepest point of our oceans, here, on Earth, is understood to be the Challenger Deep region of the Mariana Trench, at about 7 miles deep, but even with the world's oceans, averaging a depth of, just, 2.5 miles, we are faced with a water quantity, so vast, and so ripe with elements of mystery, that it, still, boggles the mind, and poses innumerable challenges, to us, in terms of our potential for study and exploration. As a result, over 80% of Earth's oceans, to date, is still rendered unmapped, unexplored, and unseen by humans. This, alone, leaves much to the imagination, and has a profound way of captivating, yet terrifying our collective consciousness. To, then, attempt to contemplate a planet, existing, that possesses world oceans, which reach an average depth of 1, 243 MILES, is just absolutely crazy! I mean, the idea of such a thing is nearly incomprehensible, not to mention, absolutely nightmarish! I would, however, be extremely interested in learning about any lifeforms, capable of inhabiting depths of that magnitude, and withstanding such unfathomable, corresponding pressures (if, in fact, any were even to exist). I would love to see the evolved adaptations that allow them to sustain life, at those incredible, and unthinkable depths! The thought, alone, makes my mind run wild!

[americanjoe]

Amazing all the information that they can give you and act like it's absolute on a planet that's 200 light years away makes it pretty hard to believe

[williamkennedy]

Can we go there to escape the madness of this world

[SCP_GUARD]

"Detecting multiple Leviathan class lifeforms in the region. Are you certain whatever you're doing is worth it?

[nawwk]

That’s the water planet in Interstellar, only way deeper.

[HwGamerkid]

I don’t wanna see what type of water monsters are in there

[shlaugen]

They actually have a few pictures of this planet. Each one is of Kevin Costner on his skiff looking for dirt

[caezar]

It would surely not be liquid water at the bottom of those oceans though. The sheer weight and pressure would turn it into some weird solid ice structure

[brandonchilds]

500 tines deeper in high af right now I’m trying to wrap my head around that

[mattyounce]

Layerings of hydro liquids such as water is a viable tenement of habitable zone of a red dwarf star so chances are it’s a candidate for the emergence of life. Though an aquatic species of alien origins is difficult to detect if they are primitive with no techno signature visible to our current level of instrumentation surveying specifically predetermined locations in our Virgo supercluster or wherever this system is pinpointed.

[easyethanol]

What does water even do at those pressures 1000 miles deep 🤔😶

[gullydisciple]

Wasnt this known many years ago and they said the base of water might be ice not because of cold but immense pressure

[rexx]

What would the pressure be at the bottom of a 1, 200+ mile ocean?

[justbplz]

How far down would you have to go before the water became ice? "Because of the pressure"

[bfreeman]

Anyone see the "new picture" that was proven to be a slice of Pepperoni?
That's modern space imaging.

[pavelaevii]

208 years away from here. As close as next door. can't wait to go. Juste need a vessel that travel at speed of light and good bye miserable earth. I'll dearly miss you.

[williammay]

So what kind of creatures are in that ocean?