Okay, Here You Are In The Middle Of The
The Ocean It's Endless But You Can't See It
Because There's A Thick Fog All-Around
Your Dense Clouds Hide The Huge But Dim
The Sun Is It Day Or Night, You Don't Know
There's Only A Gray Haze Around You
You're Alone, Even If You Try To Swim
Down After Several Hours You Still Won't
Be Able To See The Bottom Of The Ocean
And That's A Typical Water Plant For
You, I Know, Sounded Kind Of Dark But It's
Not That Bad, These Water Worlds Are More
Interesting Than They May Seem, So Let's
Take A Look At Them, The Ocean Planet Is
A Planet That Consists As You Might Have
Guessed Mainly Of Water Ice And Maybe
Some Rocks Think Of The Earth's Oceans
Its Horrifying Depths in The Mariana
Trench And All That And Now Can You
Guess How Much Space All The Water On
Earth Takes Up
0.025 Percent Exactly Now Just Try To
Imagine A World Of 40 To 60 Where Water
If You Dive In There, The Depth Can
Exceed 60 Miles Compared To The Six
The Mile Depth Of Our Mariana Trench Sounds
Like Nothing And Yeah The Pressure There
Will Be Enormous, It Can Reach Up To 20
000 Earth's Atmosphere Is Very Crushing Now
It May Sound Scary But It Still Would Be
Great To Find Out More About These
Planets Fortunately According To
Scientists' Calculations There May Be A
A Lot Of Such Planets In Our Galaxy Alone
Well You Don't Have To Go Far, You Can
Find These Water Guys Even In Our Solar
The System Is Not Planets Of Course But Moons
Jupiter Has Ganymede And Callisto And
Saturn Has Titan And Enclaves, The Ocean
Can Reach Up To 30 Percent Of The Mass
Of These Moons, Although It Is Unclear
Whether These Oceans Are Covered With A
A Thick Crust Of Ice, But We've Discovered
Quite A Few Full-fledged Ocean Planets
This Is Because The Conditions In Which
These Planets May Exist Are Very
Specifically For Example This Planet Should
Be Somewhere Six To Eight Times Larger
Then The Earth If It's Smaller It'll
Have A Rocky Surface, But If It's Bigger
It'll Turn Into A Gas Giant At The Same
The Time It Must Be In The Habitable Zone Of
It Stars A Little Further And The Planet
Immediately Turns Into An Icy Giant Or A
Cold Super-earth So Yeah These Guys Are
Very Picky
We First Started Exploring These Planets
Back In The 1970s, However Since Then We
Found Only A Couple Of Them But They're
Still Very Interesting, The First Planet
Is Legalized In 1214b, It Was The Very First
Ocean Planet That We Discovered
Initially, The Scientists Noticed Only A
A Small Dim Dot This Dot Turned Out To Be
The Red Dwarf Star Please 1214 An
Unremarkable Completely Ordinary Star
That's Five Times Smaller Than Our Sun
And 300 Times Dimmer Scientists Wouldn't
Worry About It At All But Back In 2009
They Noticed That This Star Had One
Single Planet And This Planet Turned Out
To Be Quite Strange, This Super-earth Was
Two And A Half Times Bigger Than Our
Earth And Six And A Half Times Heavier
But At The Same Time, It Had A Very
Small Density And About The Same Gravity
As Our Planet, In Other Words, There Were
Almost No Rocks And Metals On It, But It
Wasn't A Gas Giant, Either. So There Was
Only One Option Left. It Was Covered In
Water And Eyes And That's How We
Discovered The First Ocean Planet Well
Actually, We Can Only Assume That It
Consists Of Water, That's What The
Mathematical Calculations Say In Reality
This Planet Is Quite Confusing, It's
Difficult To Explore And, So Far
Scientists Haven't Been Able To Find
Anything There No Hydrogen No Helium No
Water NASA, That's Because The Outer
The Layer Of The Atmosphere Of This Planet
It Is Very Dense And It Is Perfectly High Its
Composition, But Even So It's Probably A
Water World
English 1214b Is Very Close To Its Star
It's Only 0.014 Astronomical Units Away
Which Is Less Than The Distance Between
The Moon And Us The Year of Their Last
About 36 Hours And The Temperatures To
To Put It Mildly, Are Just Wild Scientists
Suggest That The Average Temperature
There Can Reach 250 To 535 Degrees
Fahrenheit That's Hot
Remember The Creepy Description From The
Beginning Well Actually Spending Time On
Thales, 1214b, Would Be A Little
Different, More Like Swimming In A Steam
Boiler Because Of Such Gigantic
Temperatures Of The Ocean On The Surface
Will Be Constantly In A State Close To
Boiling Without Actually Reaching It So
Imagine That You're Descending To The
The Surface Of This Planet Flies Through
Clouds Of Steam And Then You Suddenly
Find Yourself In The Water, But When
Did It Happen, Well That's Because The
The Boundary Between Steam And Water On
Lies, 1214b Will Be Very Blurred Of
Of Course, You Won't Be Able To Swim To The
Bottom Of This Ocean, But Most Likely
This Bottom Is Covered With A Very Thick
A Layer Of So-called Hot Eyes It's Like
Regular Eyes, But It Doesn't Really Care
About The Laws Of Physics, So It Just
Doesn't Melt Even At Gigantic
Temperatures And The Thickness Of This
Ice Can Reach As Much As 3 000 Miles So
I Hope That's It For The Creepy Glossy
1214b And Not An Airbnb In Sight Now
Although We Can't 100 Guarantee That
It's A Water World, We Still Have Another
The Candidate For This Position Is A Newly
A Discovered A Planet Called To, 1452b This
A Planet Located In The Dragon
The Constellation Is Almost 100 Light-years
Away From Us, It Was Discovered Using The
Test Telescope By A Group Of Researchers
From The University Of Montreal This
The Planet Also Belongs To The Class Of
Super-earths, It's Seven Times Larger
Then Our Planet, But 48 Times Heavier
Again, All This Is At A Very Low Density
Because Of These Scientists Have
Suggested That Almost The Entire Planet
Consists Of A Giant Ocean Here We Were A
Little Luckier, This World Won't Be Just
A Giant Puddle And Some Thick Eyes On
This Planet There's Probably A Rocky
Surface Deep Under The Water Just Like
In A Typical Ocean, Don't Get Too Excited
Though, This Ocean Will Certainly Be
Very Different From What We're Used To I
1452b Also Orbits A Small Red Dwarf And
Not Even One But Two At Once At The Same
Time If The Previous Planet Was Close To
It's Sun Then This One On The Contrary Is
Very, Very Far Away, It's Two And A Half
Times Farther From Its Stars Than Pluto
Is From The Sun And It Moves At Great
Speed A Year There Last Only 11 Days
But We Still Don't Know Many Things
About This Planet, We'll Probably Get
Some New Information When Scientists
Observe It From The James Webb Telescope
Well That's It Wait Did You Expect
Something, Else All Right I
Know The Question That Bothers You The
Most Can There Be A Life, Well This Is A
The Difficult Question We All Know That
Water Means Life And Besides These
Planets Are In The Habitable Zones Of
Their Stars, So Potentially Yes There
Might Be Life, Not Some Full-fledged
Civilizations Of Course But Bacteria
Fish And Some Creepy Giant Monsters I
Mean You Know Why Not, However, This Is
Very Unlikely Water Alone Isn't Enough
To Create Life Even Though It's Very
Important There Should Also Be Some
Micro-elements Some Minerals And
Unfortunately For Most Water Planets, The
The Composition Will Only Consist Of Water
And Very Thick Eyes There Won't Be Any
Minerals There But Don't Give Up There Are
Still Some Probability, First Of All
There Are Meteorites And Comets That Can
Bring The Necessary Minerals To The
Planet The More Often They Crash Into It
The Higher The Probability That They'll
Bring Something Like This Into The Ocean
And Thus Create Life Secondly To 1452b
Actually Has These Minerals Yes We Don't
Know How Deep The Rocky Bottom Is
Located There But If It Exists Then
Surely Something Could Have Originated
There Let's Hope That New Research With
Powerful Telescopes Will Allow Us To
Find Out The Truth And Who Knows Maybe
One Day
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