Kiona Smith is a science writer based in the Midwest, where they write about space and archaeology. They've written for Inverse, Ars Technica, Forbes and authored the book, Peeing and Pooping in Space: A 100% Factual Illustrated History. They attended Texas A&M University and have a degree in anthropology.
Jam packed issues filled with the latest cutting-edge research, technology and theories delivered in an entertaining and visually stunning way, aiming to educate and inspire readers of all agesAn artist's impression of some of the solar system. Note the space rocks between Mars and Jupiter. What if a super-Earth existed there?Planetary scientists recently simulated an alternate version of our solar system: one with a super-Earth causing climate chaos on Earth, Mars and Venus..
By studying an alternate version of our own solar system, Simpson and Chen hoped to investigate how exoplanets might influence one another's orbits. Certain orbits of planets, for instance, may make their neighbors more habitable. As it turns out, if the inner reaches of a star system are home to a planet very much larger than Earth, the other planets are likely to experience weird orbits and wild climate extremes.and Jupiter.
Any life on such a world would need to be hardy and able to adapt quickly to dramatic changes in the environment. This may suggest that even rocky, Earth-size worlds in the habitable zones of othermight be less than hospitable to life if they share their neighborhood with a super-Earth or two, because their climates may be dramatically unstable.
"We might imagine that we have another planet between Mars and Jupiter that's maybe slightly above Earth's, maybe two Earth masses. We might experience more drastic weather. We might have more extreme summers and winters, but it still would remain, on average, quite habitable.
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