In particular, they detected highly
ionized oxygen atoms, indicative of a temperature of a mere 1 million to 2 million degrees.
Not exact matches
Ionized hydrogen
atoms could then easily combine with
oxygen, forming our H2O ice.
A highly
ionized solar
oxygen atom would be unlikely to duplicate the behavior of a singly
ionized atom from Earth, the researchers said, because the ion from the solar wind would have to regain some of the electrons that got stripped off.
As a result, once water molecules are dissociated into
ionized hydrogen and
oxygen atoms by the Sun's ultraviolet light in Venus» upper atomsphere, they are more easily blown into space by the Solar wind (S.I. Rasool, 1968).
«We saw number of spectral features emitted by
ionized atoms in the galaxies such as hydrogen,
oxygen, and neon, which allowed us to determine the metal content of the galaxies.»