Science and Exploration

Map of Rocky Exoplanet Reveals a Lava World

By Keith Cowing
Press Release
March 30, 2016
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Map of Rocky Exoplanet Reveals a Lava World
Lava World
University of Cambridge

Astronomers have obtained the most detailed ‘fingerprint’ of a rocky planet outside our solar system to date, and found a planet of two halves: one that is almost completely molten, and the other which is almost completely solid.

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