RE: Earth-Like Planet around Proxima?
August 13, 2016 at 7:13 am
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2016 at 7:14 am by Anomalocaris.)
(August 13, 2016 at 7:01 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: What is the Goldilocks zone?
It is a range of distances from the parent star within which exposed liquid water can exist on the surface of any planet with the right atmospheric conditions. Or in other words water based life is not immediately precluded from existing on the surface of a planet.
Given evidence that earthly life may not have originate on earth's surface but deep under water, perhaps underground, and the conditions similar to those under which life may have first evolved on earth appear common inside the solar system's moons residing well outside of solar system's own Goldilocks zone, I wonder if the focus on Goldilocks zone is too anthropocentric.