19 results for “atmosphere”
Planet Earth
The Atmosphere
atmosphere, the layer of gas that makes Earth habitable, is only about as thick in proportion
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Planet Earth
Weather and Climate
atmosphere and oceans move that heat around. Everything else, from a summer shower to a hurricane
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Space & the Universe
Exoplanets: Worlds Around Other Stars
atmosphere on its way to us, and the gases in that atmosphere leave fingerprints in the light
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Planets & the Solar System
Mercury and Venus
atmosphere can produce utterly different fates from similar beginnings. Mercury: the scorched messenger Mercury is the smallest
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Planets & the Solar System
Uranus and Neptune
atmospheres are hydrogen and helium, like the gas giants, but the resemblance ends there. Beneath the clouds
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Planets & the Solar System
Mars
atmosphere. What went wrong was size. A small planet cools fast; Mars's core stopped generating
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Plants & Fungi
Trees and Forests
atmosphere does, and each year they absorb roughly a quarter of what humans emit. When a forest
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Planets & the Solar System
The Sun
atmosphere and heats it to about 15 million degrees. Under those conditions hydrogen nuclei, which normally
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Planet Earth
Volcanoes
atmosphere's water and nitrogen themselves were largely outgassed by ancient volcanoes. Without them Earth would
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Planets & the Solar System
Jupiter
atmosphere of hydrogen and helium, the same ingredients as the Sun, with traces of methane, ammonia
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Planet Earth
Inside the Earth
atmosphere over billions of years, as it has done on Mars. The field is not steady
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The Human Body
Lungs and Breathing
atmosphere meets the blood directly, which makes them the organ most exposed to whatever is in the air, from
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Planets & the Solar System
Comets, Asteroids and Pluto
atmosphere, on a world at minus 230 degrees. Its surface is young in places, meaning something
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Matter, Energy & Physics
Gravity
atmosphere to the Earth, keeps the oceans in their basins, and sets the limit on how tall
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Planets & the Solar System
Saturn
atmosphere. It is mostly nitrogen, like ours, but half again as dense, and laced with methane
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Planets & the Solar System
The Moon
atmosphere and no weather, so nothing erases its scars. Every impact for four billion years is still
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Space & the Universe
Space Exploration
atmosphere, Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope see galaxies whose light set out more than
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Matter, Energy & Physics
Light
atmosphere lets through, and nothing more. Particles In 1905 Einstein showed that light also comes in packets
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Planet Earth
The Oceans
atmosphere and feed everything above them in the food chain, from tiny shrimp to the blue
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