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4-Mar-2025

Can surface fractures on Earth, Mars, and Europa predict habitability on other planets?

University of Pennsylvania
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Building on a previous study that supported the ancient philosopher Plato’s conjecture—that Earth is mostly made from cubes—geophysicist Douglas Jerolmack of the University of Pennsylvania teamed up with longtime collaborator, mathematician Gábor Domokos of Budapest University of Technology and Economics, to use their framework for understanding fracture patterns on Earth to survey fracture networks across the solar system. Their findings could offer insights into detecting potentially habitable environments on other planets.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Research, Development and Innovation Fund of Hungary, the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office, Hungarian Ministry for Culture and Innovation and the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office and the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Albrecht Science Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania

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