Clouds and hazes of Venus

DV Titov, NI Ignatiev, K McGouldrick, V Wilquet… - Space Science …, 2018 - Springer
More than three decades have passed since the publication of the last review of the Venus
clouds and hazes. The paper published in 1983 in the Venus book summarized the …

Reflections on O2 as a Biosignature in Exoplanetary Atmospheres

VS Meadows - Astrobiology, 2017 - liebertpub.com
Oxygenic photosynthesis is Earth's dominant metabolism, having evolved to harvest the
largest expected energy source at the surface of most terrestrial habitable zone planets …

Photochemically produced SO2 in the atmosphere of WASP-39b

SM Tsai, EKH Lee, D Powell, P Gao, X Zhang, J Moses… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Photochemistry is a fundamental process of planetary atmospheres that regulates the
atmospheric composition and stability. However, no unambiguous photochemical products …

Mass-independent fractionation of sulfur isotopes in Archean sediments: strong evidence for an anoxic Archean atmosphere

AA Pavlov, JF Kasting - Astrobiology, 2002 - liebertpub.com
Mass-independent fractionation (MIF) of sulfur isotopes has been reported in sediments of
Archean and Early Proterozoic Age (> 2.3 Ga) but not in younger rocks. The only …

Photochemistry of the atmosphere of Titan-Comparison between model and observations

YL Yung, M Allen, JP Pinto - … Series (ISSN 0067-0049), vol. 55 …, 1984 - adsabs.harvard.edu
Updated chemical schemes and estimates of key rate coefficients are used in the present
investigation of the photochemistry of Titan atmosphere CH-and O-atom containing simple …

Abiotic O2 levels on planets around F, G, K, and M stars: possible false positives for life?

CE Harman, EW Schwieterman… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
In the search for life on Earth-like planets around other stars, the first (and likely only)
information will come from the spectroscopic characterization of the planet's atmosphere. Of …

Atmospheric escape processes and planetary atmospheric evolution

G Gronoff, P Arras, S Baraka, JM Bell… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The habitability of the surface of any planet is determined by a complex evolution of its
interior, surface, and atmosphere. The electromagnetic and particle radiation of stars drive …

The habitability of Proxima Centauri b: environmental states and observational discriminants

VS Meadows, GN Arney, EW Schwieterman… - Astrobiology, 2018 - liebertpub.com
Proxima Centauri b provides an unprecedented opportunity to understand the evolution and
nature of terrestrial planets orbiting M dwarfs. Although Proxima Cen b orbits within its star's …

Hydroxide salts in the clouds of Venus: Their effect on the sulfur cycle and cloud droplet pH

PB Rimmer, S Jordan, T Constantinou… - The Planetary …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The depletion of SO 2 and H 2 O in and above the clouds of Venus (45–65 km) cannot be
explained by known gas-phase chemistry and the observed composition of the atmosphere …

Loss of water from Venus. I. Hydrodynamic escape of hydrogen

JF Kasting, JB Pollack - Icarus, 1983 - Elsevier
A one-dimensional photochemical-dynamic model is used to study hydrodynamic loss of
hydrogen from a primitive, water-rich atmosphere on Venus. The escape flux is calculated as …