Mars atmosphere - 95% Carbon

Encyclopedia of Science ^ | 2006 | Encyclopedia of Science

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Jupiter has a core, depending on composition, Iron or rocky, of 1.5 to 6 Earth masses, overlain by a dense later of liquid Hydrogen, with a Hydrogen, Helium atmosphere with particles of Methane, Ammonia, and Water ice crystals. It's a planet, not a failed star.

Sorry to burst your 2010 fantasy.;-)

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Excuse me? Why don't you go argue it with these folks.

Definition of a planet according to the INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION

[kinoxi]

I’d let work itself out.

[Exton1]

Water and CO2 share similar properties in terms of thermal capacities.

Too many opinions and not much in the way of genuine evidence in this whole climate change ‘industry’. The truth is that a person will believe whatever suits their preconceptions unless they are genuinely willing to change - and that is indeed a rare thing for a creature as arrogant as a human being. Water and CO2 share similar properties in terms of thermal capacities. They are each tri-atomic molecules with similar ‘triangular’ structures and the same number of degrees of freedom in terms of storing energy quanta. However, there is about 100 times as much water in the atmosphere as there is CO2 so a 1% drop in atmospheric water would have a similar thermal effect to completely removing ALL CO2 from the air, and likewise a 1% increase in atmospheric water would have a similar effect to doubling the CO2 in the atmosphere. Puts it into perspective, huh? Yes there is climate change but be damned if CO2 is doing it.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

CO2 gas has a specific heat capacity of 0.846 kJ/kgK at 80 degrees F.

Water Vapor at that same temp has a specific heat capacity of 1.864 kJ/kgK.

So the specific heat capacity of water vapor is more than double that of CO2, and WV absorbs more of the energy from the Solar spectrum than CO2.

When you boil it all down, WV is 95% of the total of all greenhouse gases(natural and manmade), CO2 is around 3.62%.

After you separate out the natural sources of both you're looking at around .001% of WV, and .117% of CO2 are manmade with the grand total of all manmade greenhouse gases coming to .28%. Less than the natural variation of the system.

[SunkenCiv]

Not an X-Planet, but more or less related, because of the recent atmospheric data from an exoplanet.

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[Monkey Face]

Where’s Al Gore when you need him to clean up a carbon footprint?

[SunkenCiv]

He won’t do it himself, but he will sell you a carbon credit, which comes with a free broom — dustpan is extra.

[grey_whiskers]

I don’t have any question except whether it will be a business opportunity anytime soon.

Tourism.

"Come join the fifty million mile high club"...

Yeah, I know, out of phase with earth, orbit is elliptical, but what the hell, it's marketing.

Full Disclosure: see Asimov's Buy Jupiter!.

Cheers!

[dearolddad]

Hmm. Interesting article. I didn’t know about the presence of methane. Raises some intriguing possibilities.

The presence of methane must mean there are cows on Mars!