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Is this planet's atmosphere stable and reasonable, and anything to keep in mind for lifeforms living in it?

3 answers  ·  last activity about 1 month ago by aCVn

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What Factors Could Cause a World to See "Northern" Lights Much Closer to the Equator?

4 answers  ·  last activity 2 months ago by aCVn

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What can I add to an oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere to make it unpalatable or poisonous to humans, yet stable and breathable to local creatures?

9 answers  ·  last activity 2 months ago by aCVn

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Is it feasible to have an oxidizing planetary atmosphere without the presence of an organic photosynthesis of some kind on the planet?

1 answer  ·  last activity 3 months ago by RosesBouquet

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Properties of an Argon based gas giant

1 answer  ·  last activity 3 months ago by RMurphy-Keith

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What would a thicker atmosphere do to plant growth/evolution?

0 answers  ·  last activity 3 months ago by DehLeprechaun

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Artificial oxygen oasis in an otherwise CO2 atmosphere

3 answers  ·  last activity 3 months ago by Anixx

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An Earth with a permanent winter state with drastically reduced temperature, dark skies and mass extinctions

1 answer  ·  last activity 3 months ago by Space_Cadet

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What would happen if the mass of air around earth doubled?

3 answers  ·  last activity 3 months ago by chase leffers

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Are there *plausible* planetary conditions where jet aircraft just don't have much advantage over propeller-driven aircraft?

2 answers  ·  last activity 4 months ago by Tristan Klassen

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What does it look like inside a transparent glowing gas?

3 answers  ·  last activity 4 months ago by Ichthys King

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Calculating average sea-level air pressure

1 answer  ·  last activity 4 months ago by Lev

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Can a perpetually darkening atmosphere exist and yet still allow life to evolve?

3 answers  ·  last activity 4 months ago by QUESTER42

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Can the color of an alien sky be calculated solely from atmospheric composition and the star's (or stars') spectral type(s)?

1 answer  ·  last activity 5 months ago by John O

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Feasibility of Hydrogen-Oxygen Atmosphere

2 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by Starsong67

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Could power be generated using the temperature difference in venus's atmosphere?

3 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by meaninglessname

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What are planetary side effects of having a thicker atmosphere?

1 answer  ·  last activity 5 months ago by Vigilant

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Planet With Higher Atmospheric Pressure

3 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by user92101

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How would normal colors be affected if a planet's atmosphere was green?

3 answers  ·  last activity 5 months ago by Primordial

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The One Problem With Terraforming and Colonizing a Super-Earth

3 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by JohnWDailey

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Atmospheric isopropyl alcohol

1 answer  ·  last activity 6 months ago by Lev

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"Rich mix" methane/oxygen atmosphere on a planet -- how would life develop?

2 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by Shalvenay

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Would this type of atmosphere be suitable for human life?

4 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by A good username

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How to explain a planet with visible cosmos at daytime?

3 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by JordanTheCynic

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Could you fly a Boeing 747 on Venus?

4 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by Greenie E. - Reinstate Monica

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Aerodynamics of propeller vs screw/fin based aerial propulsion

1 answer  ·  last activity 6 months ago by user72590

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Dinitrogen monoxide as a gaseous oxidizer for life

2 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by Aezyc

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Can an atmosphere be thicker at higher altitudes?

5 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by Renan

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Asteroids with an atmosphere

1 answer  ·  last activity 6 months ago by Sylvanus

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Carbon Monoxide Rich Atmosphere

2 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by Aezyc

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How could an Earth-like planet support all-metal airships?

6 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by Vigilant

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What would gravity, breath, and human bodies be like near the heart of the Earth?

2 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by System

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What would it take to slow down fermentation? (Specific: Wine / grape juice)

9 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by The Silhouette

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Assuming a flat world and no obstacles, how far could you see?

4 answers  ·  last activity 6 months ago by Cygnus X-1

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Are planets like the "To'ul'hian Worlds" from Orion's Arm plausible?

3 answers  ·  last activity 7 months ago by Lawton

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How extreme can a habitable tidaly locked world be?

1 answer  ·  last activity 7 months ago by Slarty

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How does composition change if you extend an Earthlike atmosphere 50km below sea level?

2 answers  ·  last activity 7 months ago by Lawton

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Generating breathable air on Europa?

3 answers  ·  last activity 7 months ago by Zxyrra

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Orange Suns and Blue Jupiters

1 answer  ·  last activity 7 months ago by Arkenstein XII

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Alien planet concept: could a completely misty, dark atmosphere be possible?

3 answers  ·  last activity 7 months ago by Double_S

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A character steps outside in the upper atmosphere of Venus- how sunburned is he?

2 answers  ·  last activity 7 months ago by qazwsx

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Surface temperature of a icy rogue planet

3 answers  ·  last activity 7 months ago by Jorge Aldo

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What would be the effect(s) of high-speed plasma impacting a planet?

2 answers  ·  last activity 7 months ago by Hunt Castle

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Would there be Rayleigh scattering in an atmosphere of sulfur dioxide?

1 answer  ·  last activity 7 months ago by URIZEN

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How to get a green gas giant?

4 answers  ·  last activity 7 months ago by Greenie E. - Reinstate Monica

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How to figure out layers of the atmosphere?

2 answers  ·  last activity 7 months ago by SealBoi

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Astronaut Survival on a Toxic (Ammonia) Watery Planet

1 answer  ·  last activity 8 months ago by Jacob Badger

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Jupiter Leaks Into Earth

2 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by BMF For Monica

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What gas can replace ozone as a UV filter in a planet's atmosphere?

1 answer  ·  last activity 8 months ago by URIZEN

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Plausibility of helium dominated atmospheres on super-Earths

1 answer  ·  last activity 8 months ago by TheDyingOfLight

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