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P1 atmospheres rich with hydrogen are the most vulnerable to hydrodynamic escape.
• Hydrogen flows outward, it picks up and drags heavier molecules and atoms with it.
• Like desert wind blow dust, hydrogen wind carries off molecules and atoms as the weight diminishes.
• Thus: present composition of the atmosphere reveals whether this process has ever occurred.
P2 astronauts have seen the telltale signs of hydrodynamic escape outside the solar system on HD
• Using HST, AVD reported in 2003 that the planet has a puffed-up atmosphere of hydrogen.
• Subsequent measures: carbon and oxygen in this atmosphere
• These atoms are too heavy to escape on their own => they must have been dragged there by hydrogen.
• hydrodynamic loss explains: no large planets much closer to stars than HD
Buz: hydrodynamic escape strips away the entire atmosphere, leaving behind remnants.
P3 evidence of planetary winds prove the hydrodynamic escape from ancient Venus, Earth, and Mars
Three clues:
• first, noble glass
no escape => chemically unreactive gases remain in an atmosphere indefinitely => abundances of different isotypes would be similar to original values => similar to the sun
yet, the abundances differ
• second, young star is the source of ultraviolet light. Sun is not an exception.
• Third, early terrestrial planets may have hydrogen-rich atmosphere
Hydrogens could come from chemical reactions of water with iron/nebular gasses/water molecules
P4 hydrodynamic escape would readily operate
• JFK: hydrodynamic escape could have carried an ocean’s worth of hydrogen within a few ten millions of years.
• K: escaping hydrogen dragged alone much of oxygen and left carbon dioxide
• Without water to mediate chemicals reactions to turn into carbonate minerals, the carbon dioxide built up atmosphere and hellish Venus
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