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points by FranOntanaya 4 days ago | 0 comments
Yeah it's the one place that crosses the triple point of water, not by a huge margin, but likely enough to trigger planetary protection concern.

But there's places like the araneiform terrain where you likely get much higher transient pressures, and maybe they create enough of a greenhouse effect to warm up before they burst through the CO2 ice crust. They'd be a great way for life to spread mechanically using those pressurized bursts.

[–] KurSix 4 days ago
I wonder how long the conditions would need to persist for anything biological to actually take advantage of them
[–] phatskat 3 days ago
Similarly, I wonder how long those conditions would need to have ceased to cause harm for those biological anythings