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Given that water gets lighter when cooling down right above its fusion temperature, and that ice is a pretty good insulator. You'd have liquid water below an ic
by littlestymaar 2y ago
Given that water gets lighter when cooling down right above its fusion temperature, and that ice is a pretty good insulator. You'd have liquid water below an ice crust for a lot of time. It would eventually freeze entirely and be slowly eaten by the Sun's radiations. But that would take a pretty long time (well on a human scale).
- rachofsunshine 2y agoYeah, that's why I specified freeze over and not freeze through, although without doing the math I'm pretty sure it'd still freeze through on solar system timescales without radioactive (as in Earth's own mantle's case) or tidal (Enceladus, Europa, possibly Triton and Ganymede) heating.
- littlestymaar 2y agoIndeed, it will slowly freeze though and evaporate at the same time.