18 de fevereiro de 2011

No Sistema Solar há água por todo o lado ....


Image: Triton as seen by Voyager 2. Credit: NASA.

"But in addition to all we’ve learned through our spacecraft, our view of the Solar System has gone from a small number of orbiting planets to huge numbers of objects at vast distances. Fifty years ago, a Kuiper Belt many times more massive than the main asteroid belt was only theory. And the early Solar System models I grew up with never included any representation of a vast cloud of comets all the way out to 50,000 AU.

We’ve also begun to learn that liquid water, once thought confined to the Earth, may be plentiful throughout the system

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Vale mesmo a pena ler a nota donde retirei isto.

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