Posted on 03/13/2021 2:44:50 AM PST by blueplum
About 41 light-years from Earth is an exoplanet that lost one atmosphere but has seemingly gained a new one. Scientists also believe the planet, known as GJ 1132 b, has evolved quite drastically from a gaseous world to a rocky one the size of Earth...
...Pointing the Hubble Space Telescope at GJ 1132 b revealed a surprise. The telescope showed that the planet has developed a toxic and hazy "secondary atmosphere" made of hydrogen, methane, hydrogen cyanide and a haze of aerosol, like the smog we have on Earth.
So how did this poisonous atmosphere come to be?
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
NASA’s first tree on Mars:
You can believe anything you want but that doesn’t make it true.
More Buffoonery....
I thought GJ 1132 b identified as a asteroid.
After losing one atmosphere, this exoplanet formed a second one>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Happens every morning in our bathroom.
I have often wondered if in the long span of the life of our solar system if one day,
when the sun has expanded (as it will before it dies),
when it becomes too hot on any inner planet (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars)
and is starting to burn away the upper atmospheres of the solar systems gaseous giants,
that underneath one those giants we’d find a solid core remaining, with a suitable atmosphere,
allowing humans to remain in this solar system when remaining on Earth is no longer possible.
Just a wonderment, not a prediction.
The time is so far off that humans should have by then acquired the technical abilities to execute mass movement of humans from earth for safety somewhere else.
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