Not exact matches
It is also rich in the elements essential for life,
including nitrogen, carbon,
oxygen,
and sulfur.
Accompanying the founders of the new Mars colony would be large amounts of equipment,
including machines to produce fertilizer, methane
and oxygen from Mars» atmospheric
nitrogen and carbon dioxide
and the planet's subsurface water ice.
These atoms
include carbon,
oxygen,
nitrogen,
and all the other elements that are essential for life as we know it.
Heavier elements —
including nitrogen,
oxygen, iron, carbon
and more — were forged in the nuclear furnaces at the cores of those first stars, then spewed into interstellar space when the stars exploded.
(Organic molecules contain carbon
and hydrogen,
and often
include nitrogen,
oxygen and other elements important to life on Earth.)
All the heavier chemical elements essential to life —
including oxygen,
nitrogen, carbon
and iron — were forged in the bellies of stars.
What's Next: The team also is developing techniques that would work with other isotopes,
including nitrogen and oxygen.
The various colors in the picture arise from different chemical elements in the expanding gas,
including hydrogen (orange),
nitrogen (red), sulfur (pink),
and oxygen (green).
«The widespread effects could
include vertical transport of carbon,
nitrogen, [
and]
oxygen by the organisms,» John Dabiri, one of the researchers behind the new study, told Earther in an email.
Once in the atmosphere, the charged particles interact with gas particles,
including nitrogen and oxygen, which triggers bursts of light.
He ticked off several of the ingredients necessary for life that have been found on Enceladus,
including water
and key elements such as carbon, hydrogen,
nitrogen and oxygen.
Definition Layer of gases surrounding the geosphere
Includes nitrogen,
oxygen, carbon dioxide,
and smaller amounts.
In the 1850s the Irish physicist John Tyndall figured out a way to actually test
and measure the capacity of various gases,
including nitrogen,
oxygen, water vapour, carbon dioxide,
and ozone, to absorb
and transmit radiant energy.
The atmosphere is about 800 km (500 miles) deep
and is made up of 21 %
oxygen, 78 %
nitrogen, 0.037 % carbon dioxide,
and other gases
including hydrogen, helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon,
and water vapour.