Venusian habitable climate scenarios: Modeling Venus through time and applications to slowly rotating Venus‐like exoplanets

MJ Way, AD Del Genio - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
One popular view of Venus' climate history describes a world that has spent much of its life
with surface liquid water, plate tectonics, and a stable temperate climate. Part of the basis for …

Creation and evolution of impact-generated reduced atmospheres of early Earth

KJ Zahnle, R Lupu, DC Catling… - The Planetary Science …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The origin of life on Earth seems to demand a highly reduced early atmosphere, rich in CH
4, H 2, and NH 3, but geological evidence suggests that Earth's mantle has always been …

Contribution of Ryugu-like material to Earth's volatile inventory by Cu and Zn isotopic analysis

M Paquet, F Moynier, T Yokoyama, W Dai, Y Hu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Initial analyses showed that asteroid Ryugu's composition is close to CI (Ivuna-like)
carbonaceous chondrites (CCs)–the chemically most primitive meteorites, characterized by …

Ruthenium isotope vestige of Earth's pre-late-veneer mantle preserved in Archaean rocks

M Fischer-Gödde, BM Elfers, C Münker, K Szilas… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The accretion of volatile-rich material from the outer Solar System represents a crucial
prerequisite for Earth to develop oceans and become a habitable planet,,–. However, the …

The mercury isotopic composition of Earth's mantle and the use of mass independently fractionated Hg to test for recycled crust

F Moynier, MG Jackson, K Zhang, H Cai… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The element mercury (Hg) can develop large mass‐independent fractionation
(MIF)(Δ199Hg) due to photo‐chemical reactions at Earth's surface. This results in globally …

Meteorites have inherited nucleosynthetic anomalies of potassium-40 produced in supernovae

NX Nie, D Wang, ZA Torrano, RW Carlson… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Meteorites record processes that occurred before and during the formation of the Solar
System in the form of nucleosynthetic anomalies: isotopic compositions that differ from the …

Chalcogen isotopes reveal limited volatile contribution from late veneer to Earth

W Wang, MJ Walter, JP Brodholt, S Huang… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The origin of Earth's volatile elements is highly debated. Comparing the chalcogen isotope
ratios in the bulk silicate Earth (BSE) to those of its possible building blocks, chondritic …

Constraining the early evolution of Venus and Earth through atmospheric Ar, Ne isotope and bulk K/U ratios

H Lammer, M Leitzinger, M Scherf, P Odert, C Burger… - Icarus, 2020 - Elsevier
The atmospheric noble gas isotope and elemental bulk ratios on Venus and Earth provide
important information on their origin and evolution. If the protoplanets grew to a certain mass …

Nitrogen and carbon fractionation in planetary magma oceans and origin of the superchondritic C/N ratio in the bulk silicate Earth

Y Li, M Wiedenbeck, B Monteleone, R Dasgupta… - Earth and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Volatiles are important for planetary geodynamics, climate, and habitability. The C/N ratio of
the bulk silicate Earth (BSE) is superchondritic, which provides a useful tool for …

Ni isotopes provide a glimpse of Earth's pre-late-veneer mantle

Y Xu, K Szilas, L Zhang, JM Zhu, G Wu, J Zhang… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Moderately siderophile (eg, Ni) and highly siderophile elements (HSEs) in the bulk silicate
Earth (BSE) are believed to be partly or near-completely delivered by late accretion after the …