Magma ocean, water, and the early atmosphere of Venus

A Salvador, G Avice, D Breuer, C Gillmann… - Space Science …, 2023 - Springer
The current state and surface conditions of the Earth and its twin planet Venus are drastically
different. Whether these differences are directly inherited from the earliest stages of …

A review of possible planetary atmospheres in the TRAPPIST-1 system

M Turbet, E Bolmont, V Bourrier, BO Demory… - Space science …, 2020 - Springer
TRAPPIST-1 is a fantastic nearby (∼ 39.14 light years) planetary system made of at least
seven transiting terrestrial-size, terrestrial-mass planets all receiving a moderate amount of …

[HTML][HTML] The HITRAN2020 molecular spectroscopic database

IE Gordon, LS Rothman, RJ Hargreaves… - Journal of quantitative …, 2022 - Elsevier
The HITRAN database is a compilation of molecular spectroscopic parameters. It was
established in the early 1970s and is used by various computer codes to predict and …

A coupled model of episodic warming, oxidation and geochemical transitions on early Mars

R Wordsworth, AH Knoll, J Hurowitz, M Baum… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Reconciling the geology of Mars with models of atmospheric evolution remains a major
challenge. Martian geology is characterized by past evidence for episodic surface liquid …

HST/WFC3 transmission spectroscopy of the cold rocky planet TRAPPIST-1h

LJ Garcia, SE Moran, BV Rackham… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Aims. TRAPPIST-1 is a nearby ultra-cool dwarf star transited by seven rocky planets. We
observed three transits of its outermost planet, TRAPPIST-1h, using the G141 grism of the …

Circumpolar ocean stability on Mars 3 Gy ago

F Schmidt, MJ Way, F Costard… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
What was the nature of the Late Hesperian climate, warm and wet or cold and dry?
Formulated this way the question leads to an apparent paradox since both options seem …

Early Mars habitability and global cooling by H2-based methanogens

B Sauterey, B Charnay, A Affholder, S Mazevet… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract During the Noachian, Mars' crust may have provided a favourable environment for
microbial life,. The porous brine-saturated regolith,–would have created a physical space …

Warm early Mars surface enabled by high-altitude water ice clouds

ES Kite, LJ Steele, MA Mischna… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Despite receiving just 30% of the Earth's present-day insolation, Mars had water lakes and
rivers early in the planet's history, due to an unknown warming mechanism. A possible …

Relevance of earth-bound extremophiles in the search for extraterrestrial life

L Carré, G Zaccai, X Delfosse, E Girard, B Franzetti - Astrobiology, 2022 - liebertpub.com
The recent discovery of extrasolar Earth-like planets that orbit in their habitable zone of their
system, and the latest clues of the presence of liquid water in the subsurface of Mars and in …

Exocam: A 3D climate model for exoplanet atmospheres

ET Wolf, R Kopparapu, J Haqq-Misra… - The Planetary Science …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The TRAPPIST-1 Habitable Atmosphere Intercomparison (THAI) project was
initiated to compare 3D climate models that are commonly used for predicting theoretical …