How can a planet be ‘hotter than hot?’ The answer is when heavy metals are detected escaping from the planet’s atmosphere, instead of condensing into clouds. …read more Source:: Science
Tag: atmosphere
Solving the sun’s super-heating mystery with Parker Solar Probe
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•It’s one of the greatest and longest-running mysteries surrounding, quite literally, our sun: Why is its outer atmosphere hotter than its fiery surface? …read more Source:: Science
Carbon dioxide levels in atmosphere hit record high in May
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•Atmospheric carbon dioxide continued its rapid rise in 2019, with the average for May peaking at 414.7 parts per million (ppm) at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory. …read more Source:: Science
Exotic matter uncovered in the sun’s atmosphere
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•Scientists have announced a major new finding about how matter behaves in the extreme conditions of the sun’s atmosphere. Their work has shed new light on the exotic but poorly …read more Source:: Science
Ultrahot planets have starlike atmospheres
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•An unusual kind of star-planet hybrid atmosphere is emerging from studies of ultrahot planets orbiting close to other stars. …read more Source:: Science
Two-billion-year-old salt rock reveals rise of oxygen in ancient atmosphere
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•Salts left over from ancient seawater reveal new information about the oxygenation of the Earth’s atmosphere more than 2 billion years ago. …read more Source:: Science
Warmer, wetter climate could mean stronger, more intense storms
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•How would today’s weather patterns look in a warmer, wetter atmosphere — an expected shift portended by climate change? Researchers offer new insight into this question — specifically, how thunderstorms …read more Source:: Science
Lava or not, exoplanet 55 Cancri e likely to have atmosphere
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•Twice as big as Earth, the super-Earth 55 Cancri e was thought to have lava flows on its surface. Now, a new analysis finds this planet likely has an atmosphere …read more Source:: Science
Greenhouse gas concentrations surge to new record
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•Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere surged at a record-breaking speed in 2016 to the highest level in 800,000 years, according to a new report. The abrupt changes in …read more Source:: Science
Small collisions make big impact on Mercury’s thin atmosphere
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•Mercury, our smallest planetary neighbor, has very little to call an atmosphere, but it does have a strange weather pattern: morning micro-meteor showers. …read more Source:: Science