P002
Atmospheres, Climate, and Potential Habitability of Rocky Exoplanets
Atmospheres, Climate, and Potential Habitability of Rocky Exoplanets
Session ID#: 158638
Session Description:
Exoplanet discoveries of the past decade have shown that every star hosts at least 0.1-1 roughly Earth-sized, or rocky, planets. Our galaxy therefore contains billions of rocky worlds, vastly outnumbering the 4 rocky planets of our own Solar System. What are these worlds like? This session invites submissions that probe the nature of rocky exoplanets, including: What can our Solar System teach us about rocky exoplanets? How different are atmospheres and climates on rocky planets around other stars, on rocky planets in exotic orbital states, or on rocky planets with radically different formation histories? How can we characterize such planets via observations? And could the processes that kept Earth habitable over billions of years also occur elsewhere? Submissions that use observation, experiment, or theory are all welcome.
Index Terms:
5210 Planetary atmospheres, clouds, and hazes [PLANETARY SCIENCES: ASTROBIOLOGY]
5215 Origin of life [PLANETARY SCIENCES: ASTROBIOLOGY]
5499 General or miscellaneous [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
7599 General or miscellaneous [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
Primary Convener: Daniel D.B. Koll, Peking University, Beijing, China
Conveners: Thaddeus David Komacek, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Astronomy, College Park, MD, United States, Mark Hammond, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom and Jun Yang, Peking University, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Beijing, China
Student/Early Career Convener: Mark Hammond, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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