Mercury: Does Its Atmosphere Contain Water?

Details Mercury: Does Its Atmosphere Contain Water? Mercury: Does Its Atmosphere Contain Water?

Mar 1974

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1974sci...183.1197t&link_type=abstract

Science, Volume 183, Issue 4130, pp. 1197-1198

Physics

7

Scientific paper

The atmosphere of Mercury, like that of the moon, is maintained in an extremely tenuous minimum state by weak solar wind accretion and radioactive decay processes, and depleted by strong removal mechanisms. Unlike the moon, it has a high daytime surface temperature that promotes the production of water vapor, which may be the dominant atmospheric constituent derived from solar wind protons.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

No associations

Rating

Mercury: Does Its Atmosphere Contain Water? does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with Mercury: Does Its Atmosphere Contain Water?, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Mercury: Does Its Atmosphere Contain Water? will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-1799541