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  • as it is today? (more unsolved problems in astronomy) The faint young Sun paradox or faint young Sun problem describes the apparent contradiction between...
    30 KB (3,667 words) - 13:31, 14 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Atmosphere of Earth
    The atmosphere of Earth is composed of a layer of gas mixture that surrounds the Earth's planetary surface (both lands and oceans), known collectively...
    67 KB (6,906 words) - 02:11, 4 November 2024
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    liquid water and faint young Sun during early Mars' history, a much stronger greenhouse effect must have occurred in the Martian atmosphere to warm the surface...
    146 KB (15,049 words) - 18:39, 25 October 2024
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    Saturn (redirect from Atmosphere of Saturn)
    deeper cloud layers. Saturn's atmosphere exhibits a banded pattern similar to Jupiter's, but Saturn's bands are much fainter and are much wider near the...
    116 KB (10,455 words) - 05:44, 2 November 2024
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    Neptune (redirect from Neptune's atmosphere)
    appear faintly blue. In contrast to the strongly seasonal atmosphere of Uranus, which can be featureless for long periods of time, Neptune's atmosphere has...
    145 KB (14,176 words) - 09:48, 4 November 2024
  • Danse Macabre is the third studio album by the rock band The Faint. It was released on August 21, 2001 in the U.S. and roughly a year later in the UK...
    3 KB (242 words) - 14:11, 6 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere
    concentrations in the early Earth's atmosphere might help explain this faint young sun paradox. When Earth first formed, Earth's atmosphere may have contained more...
    75 KB (10,476 words) - 20:37, 3 November 2024
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    Airglow (also called nightglow) is a faint emission of light by a planetary atmosphere. In the case of Earth's atmosphere, this optical phenomenon causes the...
    16 KB (1,837 words) - 00:40, 3 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lunar regolith
    sunlight reflecting from suspended lunar dust. While the Moon has a faint atmosphere, traffic and impacts of human activity on the Moon could cause clouds...
    33 KB (3,820 words) - 23:46, 3 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Prebiotic atmosphere
    prebiotic atmosphere is the second atmosphere present on Earth before today's biotic, oxygen-rich third atmosphere, and after the first atmosphere (which...
    40 KB (4,604 words) - 11:29, 23 October 2024
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    the largest in the world, at Observatory House in Slough, England. Its faint apparent magnitude (HV = +11.7) and its proximity to the much brighter Saturn...
    154 KB (14,862 words) - 16:16, 29 October 2024
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    Io (moon) (redirect from Ionian atmosphere)
    sulfur monoxide in the lowest portion of the atmosphere, but the atmosphere pressure of Io's nightside atmosphere is two to four orders of magnitude less than...
    114 KB (12,540 words) - 03:55, 17 October 2024
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    as bright as Pluto), Makemake was not discovered until after many much fainter Kuiper belt objects. Most searches for minor planets are conducted relatively...
    53 KB (4,650 words) - 21:03, 29 August 2024
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    magnetic field, it is the largest Solar System object without a substantial atmosphere. Like Saturn's largest moon Titan, it is larger than the planet Mercury...
    111 KB (10,623 words) - 13:57, 2 November 2024
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    Uranus (section Atmosphere)
    phase of matter, which astronomy calls "ice" or volatiles. The planet's atmosphere has a complex layered cloud structure and has the lowest minimum temperature...
    158 KB (15,616 words) - 04:10, 4 November 2024
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    Gonggong's large mass makes retention of a tenuous atmosphere of methane just possible, though such an atmosphere would slowly escape into space. The object is...
    75 KB (6,133 words) - 05:55, 2 November 2024
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    Sun (redirect from Solar atmosphere)
    scattering from a particularly long passage through Earth's atmosphere, and the Sun is sometimes faint enough to be viewed comfortably with the naked eye or...
    165 KB (18,120 words) - 05:41, 2 November 2024
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    facing away from the direction of motion along Rhea's orbit) and a very faint "line" of material at Rhea's equator that may have been deposited by material...
    39 KB (3,925 words) - 09:27, 26 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Atmosphere of Uranus
    observational history of the Uranian atmosphere is long and full of error and frustration. Uranus is a relatively faint object, and its visible angular diameter...
    53 KB (6,129 words) - 19:48, 20 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Astronomical seeing
    Telescope, working outside the atmosphere and thus not having any seeing problems and allowing observations of faint targets for the first time (although...
    31 KB (3,922 words) - 23:48, 7 August 2024
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