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Apr 01, 2016

The enigma of icy bodies in the Solar System

Researchers from CEA and Paris-Diderot University think they have discovered the phenomenon behind the exceptional thermal insulation of small icy bodies located beyond Jupiter: an underlayer of amorphous ice water, a few centimeters below the surface. They now understand better why these bodies are unable to store heat from the sun. This work is published in the April volume of the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.

Nov 28, 2012

Moons are born from rings

The planetary rings may be at the origin of most of the satellites around planets

Two scientists from the Université Nice Sophia Antipolis - Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur and from the Université Paris Diderot and CEA, have just proposed the first model to explain the origin of most of the regular satellites in our solar system.

Division of Electronics, Detectors and Computing for Physics (DEDIP)

Institute of Research into the Fundamental Laws of the Universe