Smashed Icy Moons Cool Too Rapidly to Retain Oceans

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Summary:
- Researchers have developed new thermal evolution models suggesting that icy moons subjected to high-velocity impacts lose heat significantly faster than previously estimated.
- The study indicates that the rapid cooling caused by these impacts may prevent the formation or long-term sustenance of subsurface liquid water oceans, challenging current theories about the habitability of certain moons in our solar system.

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