Exploding air could form seas on alien worlds

• Autores: Leah Crane
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3166, 2018, pág. 10
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The right combination of gases could put exoplanets through an explosive sea change. Hydrogen and oxygen in an atmosphere can ignite and leave behind water, dumping oceans onto a planet's surface. John Lee Crenfell at the German Aerospace Centre in Berlin and his colleagues calculated how oxygen could build up in a large, rocky planet's atmosphere and combine with pre-existing hydrogen to create water. They found that at high enough temperatures, the two could combust or explode, lighting up the sky in a ball of fire