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Re:Planet Ceres is an 'ocean world' with sea water beneath s... by baggy_trough on Monday August 10, 2020 @06:50PM (#24115032)
If that's the case why would it be an ocean at all, rather than a block of ice?
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Re:Planet Ceres is an 'ocean world' with sea water beneath s... by ojnabieoot on Monday August 10, 2020 @10:11PM (#24116534)
The article said it was a brine ocean, so salinity or some other solute - even at Earth gravity and air pressure, highly saline water can have a freezing point as low as -20C.
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Re:Planet Ceres is an 'ocean world' with sea water beneath s... by baggy_trough on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @03:16PM (#24124651)
The maximum surface temperature on Ceres is -118C. How would you get to -20C without geological heating?
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Re:Planet Ceres is an 'ocean world' with sea water beneath s... by api on Monday August 10, 2020 @07:06PM (#24115195)
Pressure? Water unlike most materials expands when it freezes.
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Re:Planet Ceres is an 'ocean world' with sea water beneath s... by darkerside on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @11:16AM (#24121177)
When you apply pressure to ice, does it melt or freeze?

Google says, https://van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=1593

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