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Webb Hints at Possible Atmosphere Surrounding Rocky Exoplanet (nasa.gov)
18 points by gmays on May 10, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


With a dense atmosphere, a powerful circumplanetary jet stream (due to tidal locking), and a magma ocean, would it have wind-swept magma waves? How large would those waves be?


Looks like a super-Venus though, so life is unlikely.


Very interesting!




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