P003
Atmospheric Escape from Planets
Atmospheric Escape from Planets
Session ID#: 249909
Session Description:
The term ‘atmospheric escape’ refers to a suite of processes, each of which is capable of removing particles from a planet’s atmosphere. These processes involve different physics and each can be important (or unimportant) in different contexts – processes include thermal escape, hydrodynamic escape, ion escape, photochemical escape, sputtering, and impacts. Atmospheric escape is observed to occur at many solar system planets as well as at exoplanets. Based on both observations and models, we infer that escape can have a large influence a planet’s evolution and (in the case of rocky planets) habitability. We welcome contributions about atmospheric escape and its consequences from modelers, theoreticians, and observers studying Earth, solar system planets and moons, and exoplanets.
Co-Sponsor(s):
- SM - SPA-Magnetospheric Physics
Index Terms:
5405 Atmospheres [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5443 Magnetospheres [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
6296 Extra-solar planets [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
Primary Convener: Dave A Brain, Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States
Conveners: Eryn M Cangi, University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, Alex Glocer, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States and Ryoya Sakata, The University of Tokyo, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
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