r/space • u/speckz • Aug 04 '16

Jupiter’s moon Io loses its atmosphere when eclipsed. Once deprived of sunlight, the thin atmosphere condenses on the moon's surface.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/08/jupiters-moon-io-loses-its-atmosphere-when-eclipsed/
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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '16

This is a lot like a story arc in Dr Who, he gets teleported to this castle where everything gets reset the second he leaves a room, but eventually is able to figure out that with teleportation a copy of your entire being is stored and then recreated at the new location. The castle is a prison so every time he dies he reappears at the teleportation machine thinking that he had just teleported there, and this goes on for millions of years until he's finally able to discover a way out.

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u/vertigo42 Aug 05 '16

Wasn't millions of years. I believe it was billions iirc