Rocky Worlds Discussions

<p>Eleonora Alei (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)</p> <p>One of the primary goals of the astronomical community in the next few decades is to characterize temperate terrestrial exoplanets to search for life. To...

<p>Shang-Min (Shami) Tsai (ASIAA)<br /> Sub-Neptune exoplanets are the most common class of planets detected to date. They occupy the transitional regime between rocky planets and gas giants, yet degeneracies in their...

<p>Ana-Catalina Plesa (DLR)<br /> Understanding the interior of rocky planets such as Mercury, the Moon, Mars, and Venus helps us to put the Earth in a global planetary context. The surfaces of terrestrial planets that...

<p>Miki Nakajima (University of Rochester)<br /> Planets experience numerous large impacts at the end of the planetary accretion stage. Such large impacts can produce deep magma oceans (MOs) within planets. During magma...

<p>Lisa Dang (Université de Montréal)<br /> Lava planets are ultra-short-period planets with bulk densities consistent with terrestrial composition, but dayside temperatures hot enough to melt—and vaporize—rock. Of...

<p>Moa Persson (Swedish Institute of Space Physics)<br /> Venus has no magnetic shield, yet its atmosphere remains astonishingly thick. How does a planet withstand the solar wind without a protective magnetosphere? The...

<p>Day 1 of the fourth edition of the biennial Rocky Worlds conference</p> <p>The planets that are best understood are the four terrestrial planets of our own solar system. Applying the detailed understanding gleaned...

<p>Annelies Mortier (University of Birmingham)<br /> In just 30 years, we went from no known exoplanets to more than 6000 known exoplanets. This growing sample of exoplanetary systems allows us to study their...

<p>Diogo Lourenco (ETH Zurich)<br /> Venus’ mass and radius are similar to those of Earth, yet its internal structure, chemical composition, and overral evolution and dynamics remain poorly constrained. A striking...

<p>Remo Burn (MPIA)</p> <p>Owing to observational advances, exoplanets are no longer treated as simple point masses in planet formation theory - their masses, radii, and thus densities are now measurable. Combined with...

<p>Kazumasa Ohno (NAOJ)<br /> GJ 1214b is the archetype low-density sub-Neptune orbiting around a M-dwarf. The bulk composition of GJ 1214b remained elusive, as its mass-radius relation can be explained either by a...

<p>Michael L. Wong & Anirudh Prabhu (Carnegie Earth & Planets Laboratory)</p> <p>Humanity is embarking on a potential golden age of astrobiology, with numerous current and future space missions being tasked with the...

<p>Sebastiaan Krijt (University of Exeter)</p> <p>The properties of planetary systems depend sensitively on the physical and chemical structure of the protoplanetary discs in which they form. At the same time, the...

<p>Katherine de Kleer (Caltech)</p> <p>Tides are a key internal energy source for numerous Solar System moons as well as exoplanets, driving their chemical evolution, geological activity, and even habitability. At...

<p>Michael Way (NASA/GISS, Uppsala University)</p> <p>In recent years a great deal of work has appeared related to better quantifying Venus' evolutionary path from Magma Ocean to present day Hell House world. We will...