The trail of water and the delivery of volatiles to habitable planets
by Klaus Pontoppidan, Andrea Banzatti, Edwin Bergin, Geoffrey A. Blake, Sean Brittain, Maryvonne Gerin, Paul Goldsmith, Quentin Kral, David Leisawitz, Dariusz Lis, Melissa McClure, Stefanie Milam, Gary Melnick, Joan Najita, Karin Oberg, Matt Richter, Colette Salyk, Martina Wiedner, and Ke Zhang
Published onMay 31, 2019
The trail of water and the delivery of volatiles to habitable planets
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Abstract
Water is fundamental to our understanding of the formation of planets and the delivery of volatiles to their surfaces. Yet, we currently have no facilities capable of comprehensively observing it. A cold, space-based observatory operating at 25-600 micron is needed to address fundamental questions about the origin of planets and their water.
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