Chemical composition of red giant star with more carbon than oxygen in its atmosphere Date: January 17, 2010 Source: University of Granada Summary: Researchers have conducted the most complete ...

FOR various problems in meteorology and physics, it is of importance to know the composition of the earth's atmosphere at all heights. The most direct approach, namely, chemical analysis by ...

The air in the atmosphere is a mixture of gases. Most of the atmosphere is nitrogen (80%) with around 20% oxygen and other trace gases.

The chemical signature of methane released from fracking is found in the atmosphere, pointing to shale gas operations as the culprit.

Scientists determine for the first time the chemical composition of a type of red giant star with more carbon than oxygen in its atmosphere ...

Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics Overview The atmospheric sciences naturally include the study of the composition of earth’s atmosphere and the transformation of chemical compounds in the atmosphere.

Venus' atmosphere has led to an extreme version of the same greenhouse effect causing climate change on Earth.

Chemical analysis of some of the world's oldest rocks, by an international team led by McGill University researchers, has provided the earliest record yet of Earth's atmosphere. The results show ...

OUR prospect of finding differences in the chemical composition of the air is, of course, better the higher the sample is obtained in the stratosphere. An important part of the whole research is ...

As a result, the chemical composition of aerosols doesn’t remain constant but varies in time and location. Averaged over the globe, human-caused aerosols account for about 10 percent of the total ...

A team of researchers flew high-altitude NASA aircraft over Alaska and the U.S. mainland to sample the chemical composition of the thin air in the stratosphere, the second-lowest layer of Earth's ...