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Feb 1908

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1908natur..77..392e&link_type=abstract

Nature, Volume 77, Issue 2000, pp. 392 (1908).

Physics

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IN Dr. William Lockyer's review of Dr. Russel Wallace's book on the habitability of Mars he refers to Dr. Johnstone Stoney's contention that aqueous vapour cannot exist on a planet of that size because the velocity of the molecules would be too great for its attraction to retain them. I do not know what temperature was assumed in the calculation, but a dozen miles above the surface of the planet the temperature of its atmosphere must approach absolute zero-a condition of things in which even hydrogen would not have the necessary velocity to escape.

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