Sentences with phrase «sheer volume of atmosphere»

MAVEN focuses on hydrogen and oxygen as ways to trace water and carbon dioxide, and neutral argon as a way to measure the sheer volume of atmosphere loss.

Not exact matches

The sheer volume of discoveries would allow astronomers to begin comparing broad classes of exoplanets: learning how stellar flares affect planetary atmospheres, for instance, or what sorts of planets surround stars of different ages.

While it may be that climate change didn't influence the specific weather system that brought the rain, it is likely to have contributed to the sheer volume of moisture in the atmosphere, the paper says.