Surface Temperature of the Early Earth and the Nature of the Terrestrial Atmosphere

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Jun 1970

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Nature, Volume 226, Issue 5249, pp. 927-928 (1970).

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THE detailed models of solar evolution now available clearly indicate that the luminosity of the Sun has been gradually increasing since it first arrived on the main sequence some 5 × 109 yr ago. If it is assumed that any changes in the orbit of the Earth during this time have been periodic-so that the present orbit is very nearly the average orbit-then it follows that the value of the solar constant has also increased correspondingly. The possibility of a resultant variation in the surface temperatures of the planets is of particular interest for the Earth, which is the only planet at present possessing a considerable quantity of water in the liquid state on its surface.

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