Raining Pebbles: Rocky Exoplanet Has Bizarre Atmosphere, Simulation Suggests
...The exoplanet COROT-7b is close enough to its star that its "day-face" is hot enough to melt rock. Theoretical models suggest the planet has an atmosphere of the components of rock in gaseous form and lava or boiling oceans on its surface...
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I'm really starting to get turned off by all these "artist renderings" that science stories use to flesh themselves out with. Give me the real thing or nothing at all. None of this Cosmological teasing.
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Unfortunately we can't go there can we..and probably never will. Scientifically inspired imagination might be all we ever have for some of these things.andrewclunn wrote:I'm really starting to get turned off by all these "artist renderings" that science stories use to flesh themselves out with. Give me the real thing or nothing at all. None of this Cosmological teasing.
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