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Simulations Show How Low Gravity on Ocean Worlds Might Help to Sustain Warm Water Circulation for Millions of Years
June 25, 2024
WOODS HOLE, Massachusetts, June 25 (TNSres) -- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution issued the following news release:

A new study led by team members at UC Santa Cruz have used a complex computer model to investigate how the influence of low gravity, as found on ocean worlds in our outer solar system, could influence flows of water and heat below their seafloors.

The work was conducted as part of a multi-institutional "Exploring Ocean Worlds" NASA program, le . . .

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