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Answer by Eric for What is this atmospheric escape chart actually showing?

The graph is comparing Temperature X-axis, to Velocity Y-axis.It is placing on the graph the approximate temperature for each planet and each planets escape velocity. X and Y.It is also graphing the...

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What is this atmospheric escape chart actually showing?

The wikipedia article on atmospheric escape had this chart:(this was removed from the page as a result of this question in August 2022)It all seems plausible enough... for a body to retain an...

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Answer by shai horowitz for What is this atmospheric escape chart actually...

Note only a small percentage of the hydrogen escape specifically the ones with the higher velocities. The leftover distribution after these particle escape is no longer a boltzmann distribution and is...

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Answer by Starfish Prime for What is this atmospheric escape chart actually...

I've located this suspiciously similar looking chart from chapter 5 of Atmospheric Evolution on Inhabited and Lifeless Worlds, which is available in PDF form here.It has a number of important...

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