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Understanding The Origin Of Titan’s Thick, Nitrogen-Rich Atmosphere

A new Southwest Research Institute study tackles one of the greatest mysteries about Titan, one of Saturn’s moons: the origin of its thick, nitrogen-rich atmosphere. The study posits that one key to ...

Origin of lowest density super-puff planet remains a hazy mystery

A thick layer of haze around the ultra-low-density planet Kepler-51d likely obscures not only the strange planet's ...
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Curiosity Sniffs Out the History of the Martian Atmosphere

NASA’s Curiosity rover is using a new experiment to better understand the history of the Martian atmosphere by analyzing xenon. While NASA’s Curiosity rover concluded its detailed examination of the ...
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A history of atmospheric CO₂ and its effects on plants, animals, and ecosystems / James R. Ehleringer, Thure E. Cerling, and M. Denise Dearing, editors

PART 1. THE ATMOSPHERIC CO2 RECORD -- The rise of trees and how they changed Paleozoic atmospheric CO2, climate, and geology / Robert A. Berner -- Atmospheric CO2 during the late Paleozoic and ...
Nature

The first ice-core record of historical atmospheric hydrogen levels

An ice-core record of hydrogen reveals that atmospheric levels vary in response to climate change and have increased drastically owing to human activity since the pre-industrial era. The apparent ...