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Planets With Oxygen but No Water

12/11/2014 7:47 AM

Is there any planet which has sufficient oxygen for living but no water for cooking?

I have searched and found that, europa surface is filled with ice.Scientists says, bottom portion of ice layer could be an ocean.

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Re: Planets with Oxygen but No water

12/11/2014 8:08 AM

yes there is, you just have to walk to 7-11 for water

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Re: Planets With Oxygen but No Water

12/11/2014 12:32 PM

Based on the very small sample of planets (and moons) that we have observed, none except Earth has a significant amount of free oxygen in its atmosphere. In our planet's case this oxygen is the result of ongoing biological processes (photosynthesis). And, as far as we have observed so far, biological process, Life, ultimately depends on liquid water. (If by "water for cooking" you mean liquid water).

Therefor, free oxygen, requires life, and life requires liquid water. However the reverse is not true, life does not require free oxygen. In fact life existed on this planet for some 2 billion years before there was any significant free oxygen in the atmosphere.

So, on some unknown planet we might have water to cook with and something to cook in it, but not have any oxygen to breath.

But then, this is based on just one sample of the countless billions of planets that must exist in the universe.

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Re: Planets With Oxygen but No Water

12/17/2014 12:33 AM

Can't we make artificial leaves doing photosynthesis creating oxygen?.

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