Sentences with phrase «atmospheric escape»

So high stellar wind pressure early on could increase the rate of atmospheric escape.

That cranks up the amount of energy available to fuel the processes responsible for atmospheric escape.

These varying conditions have given MAVEN the opportunity to observe Mars» atmospheric escape getting cranked up and dialed down.

But Zahnle, an expert on atmospheric escape of gases, agrees with the main thrust of the study: Right now, dust storms are helping to bleed Mars dry.

Pluto's cold upper atmosphere means atmospheric escape must occur via slow thermal Jeans» escape.

Planetary population synthesis coupled with atmospheric escape: a statistical view of evaporation.

This idea has been suggested before and there has been some circumstantial evidence for atmospheric escape, but this discovery lends the first evidence in direct support.

The simulations illustrated that ancient stellar wind could cause the rate of atmospheric escape to be far greater than losses produced by the current solar wind that reaches the magnetosphere of Earth.

«Our results indicate that atmospheric escape may play an important role in the evolution of these planets,» summarises Julien de Wit, from MIT, USA, co-author of the study.

I am also interested in the physics of atmospheric escape, stellar coronal mass ejections, planet - finding, and statistics.