Still Waters Posted March 15, 2019 #1 Share Posted March 15, 2019 Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, are cooking up an alien atmosphere right here on Earth. In a new study, JPL scientists used a high-temperature "oven" to heat a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide to more than 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,100 Celsius), about the temperature of molten lava. The aim was to simulate conditions that might be found in the atmospheres of a special class of exoplanets (planets outside our solar system) called "hot Jupiters." https://phys.org/news/2019-03-cooking-alien-atmospheres-earth.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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