Water on Venus - Lack or loss?

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Dec 1983

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983angeo...1..477b&link_type=abstract

Annales Geophysicae (ISSN 0755-0686), vol. 1, Nov.-Dec. 1983, p. 477-479.

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Atmospheric Moisture, Planetary Composition, Solar Planetary Interactions, Venus Atmosphere, Comets, Deuterium, Pioneer Venus Spacecraft, Solar Wind, T Tauri Stars, Water

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An idealized model for the atmospheric mass loss from Venus by the solar wind interaction is used to show that early loss of hydrogen and oxygen from Venus equalling as much as two percent of a terrestrial ocean would have been possible if the sun was once a T Tauri star. Model complications such as finite ion gyroradii and nonspherical ionopause geometry are neglected. The interaction of the solar wind is taken to be confined to a scale height of the atmospheric gas. Mass loss from the planet can be visualized by assuming that the ions above the ionopause produced by the photoionization of the neutral gas of a given density are incorporated into the solar wind, constrained by the mass loading limit of Michel (1971).

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