A century ago, physicists put out sheets of absorbent paper in showers to record
raindrop size, and discovered a surprising variety.
A study in the journal Nature Physics shows that
raindrop size distribution is a function of large drops disintegrating as they fall.
Plugging those numbers into the mathematical relations among
raindrop size, speed and atmospheric density suggests that the early Earth's atmosphere probably exerted the same or as little as half the present pressure.
The key to that determination is
raindrop size.
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Raindrops the size of green mung beans hit the camphor trees by the road, making a sound like popping sesame seeds.
Not exact matches
Make observations about the
size of the
raindrops.
Myth of
raindrop formation exploded High - speed video footage shows the short lifetime of a
raindrop to be a complicated and explosive affair — and solves a long - standing conundrum of what determines the
size of
raindrops
The new results might even help earth scientists who seek to infer the thickness of Earth's ancient atmosphere based on the
size of
raindrop craters left in now - hardened volcanic ash.
The two combatants might be of roughly equal
size, but the
raindrop weighs in 50 times as heavy.
By measuring the
size of the largest
raindrop imprints (inset) in ash that solidified soon after an eruption 2.7 billion years ago (pocked slab, main image) and comparing them to the imprints made by drops of various
sizes and momentums in lab tests, the team estimates that the density of Earth's oxygen - free atmosphere 2.7 billion years ago most likely ranged between 50 % and 108 % of today's air and was certainly less than twice its modern density — a thickness insufficient to offset the dimness of the sun at the time.
If one could determine an ancient
raindrop's
size, one could determine how thick the atmosphere likely was.
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They're visible as clouds and remain suspended because they are so small — it's estimated 1 million must combine to form a moderate
sized raindrop.
Now, a rain drop remain buoyant until it reaches a certain
size, and cloud with updrafts can have larger
raindrops kept buoyant and rain rain may increase it's
size falling.
These are visible as clouds and it takes 1 million to form a moderate
sized raindrop.