Salty ice and the dilemma of ocean exoplanet habitability

Abstract

Habitability of exoplanet's deepest oceans could be limited by the presence of high-pressure ices at their base. New work demonstrates that efficient chemical transport within deep planetary ice mantles is possible through significant salt incorporation within the high-pressure ice.

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• The James Webb Space Telescope
• Geophysical tests for habitability in ice-covered ocean worlds

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