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Enhanced atmospheric loss on protoplanets at the giant impact phase in the presence of oceans

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  • Hidenori Genda

    (The University of Tokyo
    Tokyo Institute of Technology)

  • Yutaka Abe

    (The University of Tokyo)

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Earth and Venus part company The Mariner and Venera probes sent to Venus in the 1960s and 1970s revealed many differences between the venusian atmosphere and that on Earth. One of the hardest to account for is the preponderance of noble gases on Venus, in particular an argon-36 level 50 times higher than on Earth. A new theory tracks the cause of this difference to around 4.5 billion years ago, when Earth and Venus are thought to have grown as a result of collisions between several Mars-sized planets. Numerical simulations show that when a giant impact occurs, the presence of an ocean drastically increases the rate at which atmosphere is lost. On Earth, almost all the proto-atmosphere accrued during planet formation would have been stripped away during collisions. Venus, nearer the Sun, is unlikely to have had a major ocean, and its proto-atmosphere would have survived.

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  • Hidenori Genda & Yutaka Abe, 2005. "Enhanced atmospheric loss on protoplanets at the giant impact phase in the presence of oceans," Nature, Nature, vol. 433(7028), pages 842-844, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:433:y:2005:i:7028:d:10.1038_nature03360
    DOI: 10.1038/nature03360
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