A gaseous atmosphere refers to the mixture of different gases that surrounds a planet or other celestial body. It is the layer of air or gas that envelops the surface and creates the conditions necessary for life to exist.
Sentences with «gaseous atmosphere»
Reading Judd's prose two decades after his death, you will experience, amid the overheated and gaseous atmosphere of the contemporary art world, an invigorating blast of cold, clear air. (artbook.com)
Rather, Santos says, it probably formed near its present orbit by accumulating a hot core of rock and a relatively small gaseous atmosphere. (sciencemag.org)
Charon itself is too small to hold on to its own gaseous atmosphere very long, so as the 100 - year winters end, the atmosphere evaporates, leaving behind the larger hydrocarbons. (scientificamerican.com)