Venus Lower Atmospheric Composition: Analysis by Gas Chromatography
Venus Lower Atmospheric Composition: Analysis by Gas Chromatography
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金星低层大气成分:气相色谱分析
DOI:
10.1126/science.203.4382.802
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发表时间:
1979
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影响因子:
56.9
通讯作者:
J. Pollack
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作者:
V. Oyama;G. Carle;F. Woeller;J. Pollack
The first gas chromatographic analysis of the lower atmosphere of Venus is reported. Three atmospheric samples were analyzed. The third of these samples showed carbon dioxide (96.4 percent), molecular nitrogen (3.41 percent), water vapor (0.135 percent), molecular oxygen [69.3 parts per million (ppm)], argon (18.6 ppm), neon (4.31 ppm), and sulfuir dioxide (186 ppm). The amounts of water vapor and sulfur dioxide detected are roughly compatible with the requirements of greenhouse models of the high surface temperature of Venus. The large positive gradient of sulfur dioxide, molecular oxygen, and water vapor from the clould tops to their bottoms, as implied by Earth-based observations and these resuilts, gives added support for the presence of major quantities of aqueous sulfuric acid in the clouds. A comparison of the inventory of inert gases found in the atmospheres of Venus, Earth, and Mars suggests that these components are due to outgassing from the planetary interiors.