Impact-induced atmospheres and oceans on earth and Venus

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Aug 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986natur.322..526m&link_type=abstract

Nature (ISSN 0028-0836), vol. 322, Aug. 7, 1986, p. 526-528.

Physics

58

Hypervelocity Impact, Ocean Models, Primitive Earth Atmosphere, Protoplanets, Venus Atmosphere, Atmospheric Moisture, Atmospheric Temperature, Temperature Effects

Scientific paper

The effects of planetesimal-impact induced atmosphere formation on the earth and Venus are modeled to gain an indication why the two planets, at relatively equal distances from the sun, evolved so differently. Both planets gained approximately 10 to the 21 kg of water from the impacts. The water mass of the accreting planetesimals would have remained, initially, as a hot atmosphere. A two-stream approximation is defined for the temperature profile of a plane parallel atmosphere in radiative equilibrium. It is shown that the Venus atmosphere did not, as happened on earth, condense into a hot ocean after the impact epoch. Instead, the greenhouse effect caused the Venus equilibrium thermal structure to remain higher than the vapor pressure, keepinig the atmosphere in a vapor phase until the vapor dissociated and H2 atoms eventually escaped into space.

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