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Understanding The Origin Of Titan’s Thick, Nitrogen-Rich Atmosphere

A new Southwest Research Institute study tackles one of the greatest mysteries about Titan, one of Saturn’s moons: the origin of its thick, nitrogen-rich atmosphere. The study posits that one key to ...
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Curiosity Sniffs Out the History of the Martian Atmosphere

NASA’s Curiosity rover is using a new experiment to better understand the history of the Martian atmosphere by analyzing xenon. While NASA’s Curiosity rover concluded its detailed examination of the ...
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Scientists pin down the origins of the moon's tenuous atmosphere

Scientists say they have identified the main process that formed the moon's atmosphere and continues to sustain it today. The team reports that the lunar atmosphere is primarily a product of 'impact ...
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A history of atmospheric CO₂ and its effects on plants, animals, and ecosystems / James R. Ehleringer, Thure E. Cerling, and M. Denise Dearing, editors

PART 1. THE ATMOSPHERIC CO2 RECORD -- The rise of trees and how they changed Paleozoic atmospheric CO2, climate, and geology / Robert A. Berner -- Atmospheric CO2 during the late Paleozoic and ...
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Oxygen : a four billion year history / Donald Eugene Canfield

What is it about planet Earth? -- Life before oxygen -- Evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis -- Cyanobacteria: the great liberators -- What controls atmospheric oxygen concentrations? -- The early ...