A giant collision dumps enormous energy into an icy moon, but new simulations show that shattered fragments shed the heat rapidly—so smaller moons can lose existing oceans or fail to form oceans that would otherwise have developed. - Space Daily
science 2026/09/15 18:30:00

A giant collision dumps enormous energy into an icy moon, but new simulations show that shattered fragments shed the heat rapidly—so smaller moons can lose existing oceans or fail to form oceans that would otherwise have developed. - Space Daily

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Coupled collision and thermal models find that fragments radiate impact heat quickly, while differentiation can remove the insulating layer that helps small moons sustain oceans.