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1.
F.P. Fanale 《Icarus》1976,28(2):179-202
Observations of Mars and cosmochemical considerations imply that the total inventory of degassed volatiles on Mars is 102 to 103 times that present in Mars' atmosphere and polar caps. The degassed volatiles have been physically and chemically incorporated into a layer of unconsolidated surface rubble (a “megaregolith”) up to 2km thick. Tentative lines of evidence suggest a high concentration (~5g/cm2) of 40 Ar in the atmosphere of Mars. If correct, this would be consistent with a degassing model for Mars in which the Martian “surface” volatile inventory is presumed identical to that of Earth but scaled to Mars' smaller mass and surface area. The implied inventory would be: (40Ar) = 4g/cm2, (H2O) = 1 × 105g/cm2, (CO2) = 7 × 103g/cm2, (N2) = 3 × 102g/cm2, (Cl) = 2 × 103g/cm2, and (S) = 2 × 102g/cm2. Such a model is useful for testing, but differences in composition and planetary energy history may be anticipated between Mars and Earth on theoretical grounds. Also, the model demands huge regolith sinks for the volatiles listed.If the regolith were in physical equilibrium with the atmosphere, as much as 2 × 104g/cm2 of H2O could be stored in it as hard-frozen permafrost, or 5 × 104g/cm2 if equilibrium with the atmosphere were inhibited. Spectral measurements of Martian regolith material and laboratory measurement of weathering kinetics on simulated regolith material suggest large amounts of hydrated iron oxides and clay minerals exist in the regolith; the amount of chemically bound H2O could be from 1 × 104 to 4 × 104g/cm2. In an Earth-analogous model, a 2 km mixed regolith must contain the following concentrations of other volatile-containing compounds by weight: carbonates = 1.5%, nitrates = 0·3%, chlorides = 0.6%, and sulfates = 0.1%. Such concentrations would be undetectable by current Earth-based spectral reflectance measurements, and (except the nitrates) formation of the “required” amounts of these compounds could result from interaction of adsorbed H2O and ice with primary silicates expected on Mars. Most of the CO2 could be physically adsorbed on the regolith.Thus, maximum amounts of H2O and other volatiles which could be stored in the Mars regolith are marginally compatible with those required by an Earth-analogous model, although a lower atmospheric 40Ar concentration and regolith volatile inventory would be easier to reconcile with observational constraints. Differences in the ratios of H2O and other volatiles to 40Ar between surface volatiles on the real Mars and on an Earth-analogous Mars could result from and reflect differences in bulk composition and time history of degassing between Mars and Earth. Models relating Viking-observable parameters, e.g., (40Ar) and (36Ar), to the time history and overall intensity of Mars degassing are given.  相似文献   

2.
Altitude profiles for the number densities of NO, NO2, NO3, N2O5, HNO2, CH3O, CH3O2, H2CO, OH, and HO2 are calculated as a function of time of day with a steady-state photochemical model in which the altitude profiles for the number densities of H2O, CH4, H2, CO, O3, and the sum of NO and NO2 are fixed at values appropriate to a summer latitude of 34°. Average daily profiles are calculated for the long-lived species, HNO3, H2O2, and CH3O2H.The major nitrogen compound HNO3 may have a number density approaching 5 × 1011 molecules cm?3 at the surface, although an effective loss path due to collisions with particulates could greatly reduce this value.The number density of OH remains relatively unchanged in the first 6 km and reaches 1 × 107 molecules cm?3 at noon, while the number density of HO2 decreases throughout the lower troposphere from its noontime value of 8 × 108 molecules cm?3 at the surface.H2O2 and H2CO both have number densities in the ppb range in the lower troposphere.Owing to decreasing temperature and water concentration, the production of radicals and their steady-state number densities decrease with altitude, reaching a noontime minimum of 1 × 108 molecules cm?3 for OH and 3 × 107 molecules cm?3 for HO2 at the tropopause. The related minor species show even sharper decreases with increasing altitude.The primary path for interconverting OH and HO2 serves as the major sink for CO and leads to a tropospheric lifetime for CO of ~0.1 yr.Another reaction cycle, the oxidation of CH4, is quite important in the lower troposphere and leads to the production of H2CO along with the destruction of CH4 for which a tropospheric lifetime of ~2 yr is estimated.The destruction of H2CO that was produced in the CH4 oxidation cycle provides the major source of CO and H2 in the atmosphere.  相似文献   

3.
Interference filter photometry was taken of Comet Encke on June 14, 1974 (1.07 AU heliocentric distance, postperihelion) at the CTIO (Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory) 150-cm reflector. Production rates were calculated of 4.1 × 1023 mol sec?1 of CN, 5.3 × 1023 mol sec?1 of C3, and 4.3 × 1024 mol sec?1 of C2. These are about three times smaller than at comparable heliocentric distance preperihelion, assuming a value of 100 for the ratio H2O/ (C2 + C3 + CN). An upper limit was placed on the production of nonvolatiles at about one-third that of volatiles in mass by assuming a bulk density of 1 g cm?3, a particle geometric albedo of 0.1, and a phase function of 0.2.  相似文献   

4.
Models are developed for the photochemistry of a CO2H2ON2 atmosphere on Mars and estimates are given for the concentrations of N, NO, NO2, NO3, N2O5, HNO2, HNO3, and N2O as a function of altitude. Nitric oxide is the most abundant form of odd nitrogen, present with a mixing ratio relative to CO2 of order 10?8. Deposition rates for nitrite and nitrate minerals could be as large as 3× 105 N equivalent atoms cm?2 sec?1 under present conditions and may have been higher in the past.  相似文献   

5.
Joel S. Levine 《Icarus》1976,28(2):165-169
The presence of 28% argon on Mars as calculated by Levine and Riegler and indirectly inferred from Soviet Mars-6 lander data has important implications for the outgassing history of H2O, CO2, and N2 on Mars. Even if the terrestrial volatile outgassing ratio is only approximately valid for Mars, then large quantities of H2O [of the order of 105 gcm?2 (about 108 more H2O than is currently present in the Martian atmosphere)] and about 104 gcm?2 of CO2 (about 103 times more CO2 than found at present in the Martian atmosphere) and some 450 gcm?2 of N2 may have outgassed over the history of Mars.  相似文献   

6.
The excitation, energy transfer and quenching of O2 (A3 Σu+, C3 Δu, c1 Σu?) and O(1S) are discussed, taking into account laboratory measurements and observations on the airglow of the Earth, Venus and Mars. The excitation of O(1S) occurs by the Barth mechanism with O2(c) as a precursor: the rate coefficient is 2.5 × 10?12 cm3 s?1 for υ > 0 and 2.5 × 10?12 exp(?1100T) cm3 s?1for υ = 0. The O2(c) can be formed directly by recombination or by O2(A) and O2(C) colliding with other molecules; the O2(c) yield through quenching of these states is about 0.3 in air and about 1.0 in carbon dioxide. The rate coefficients of some processes that control the molecular oxygen bands and the atomic oxygen green line are estimated.  相似文献   

7.
Robert L. Huguenin 《Icarus》1976,28(2):203-212
Photostimulated oxidation weathering irreversibly removes both oxygen and hydrogen from the atmosphere at a rate of 108 to 1011 cm?2sec?1. This corresponds to a net loss of 1025 to 1028 molecules cm?2 (102 to 105 g cm?2 of H2O, assuming a uniform rate over geologic time. Additional H2O is removed through hydration of Fe2O3 and clay minerals, but the loss is reversible and the extent of regolith storage is uncertain. CO2 is irreversibly removed from the atmosphere through the formation of CaCO3 at a rate of 107?1010cm?2sec?1. Over geologic time this corresponds to a net loss of 1024?1027 molecules cm?2 (101?104g cm?2) of CO2. Previously, it was proposed that exospheric escape was the principal irreversible volatile sink, amounting to only 102g cm?2 of H2O and 100g cm?2 of CO2 over geologic time. A recent tentative identification of abundant argon on Mars suggests that the planet may have degassed up to 105g cm?2 of H2O and 104g cm?2 of CO2. If the amounts of H2O and CO2 removed by photostimulated oxidation are close to the upper limits proposed here, it is possible that chemical weathering may have had a major effect on limiting the supply of H2O and CO2 trapped in the regolith and polar caps.  相似文献   

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The rates and altitudes for the dissociation of atmospheric constituents of Titan are calculated for solar UV, solar wind protons, interplanetary electrons, Saturn magnetospheric particles, and cosmic rays. The resulting integrated synthesis rates of organic products range from 102–103 g cm?2 over 4.5 × 109 years for high-energy particle sources to 1.3 × 104 g cm?2 for UV at λ < 1550 A?, and to 5.0 × 105 g cm?2 if λ > 1550 A? (acting primarily on C2H2, C2H4, and C4H2) is included. The production rate curves show no localized maxima corresponding to observed altitudes of Titan's hazes and clouds. For simple to moderately complex organic gases in the Titanian atmosphere, condensation occurs below the top of the main cloud deck at 2825 km. Such condensates comprise the principal cloud mass, with molecules of greater complexity condensing at higher altitudes. The scattering optical depths of the condensates of molecules produced in the Titanian mesosphere are as great as ~ 102/(particulate radius, μm) if column densities of condensed and gas phases are comparable. Visible condensation hazes of more complex organic compounds may occur at altitudes up to ~ 3060 km provided only that the abundance of organic products declines with molecular mass no faster than laboratory experiments indicate. Typical organics condensing at 2900 km have molecular masses = 100–150 Da. At current rates of production the integrated depth of precipitated organic liquids, ices, and tholins produced over 4.5 × 109 years ranges from a minimum ~ 100 m to kilometers if UV at λ > 1550 A? is important. The organic nitrogen content of this layer is expected to be ~ 10?1?10?3 by mass.  相似文献   

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The abundances of PH3, CH3D, and GeH4 are derived from the 2100- to 2250-cm?1 region of the Voyager 1 IRIS spectra. No evidence is seen for large-scale variations of the phosphine abundance over Jovian latitudes between ?30 and +30°. In the atmospheric regions corresponding to 170–200°K, the derived PH3/H2 value is (4.5 ± 1.5) × 10?7 or 0.75 ± 0.25 times the solar value. This result, compared with other PH3 determinations at 10 μm, suggests than the PH3/H2 ratio on Jupiter decreases with atmospheric pressure. In the 200–250°K region, we derive, within a factor of 2, CH3D/H2 and GeH4/H2 ratios of 2.0 × 10?7 and 1.0 × 10?9, respectively. Assuming a C/H value of 1.0 × 10?3, as derived from Voyager, our CH3D/H2 ratio implies a D/H ratio of 1.8 × 10?5, in reasonable agreement with the interstellar medium value.  相似文献   

10.
We reduced ultraviolet spectra of Saturn from the IUE satellite to produce a geometric albedo of the planet from 1500 to 3000 Å. By matching computer models to the albedo we determined a chemical composition consistent with the data. This model includes C2H2 and C2H6 with mixing ratios and distributions of (9 ± 3) × 10?8 in the top 20 mbar of the atmosphere with none below for C2H2 and (6 ± 1) × 10?6 also in the top 20 mbar with none below for C2H6. The C2H2 and C2H6 distributions and the C2H6 mixing ratio are taken directly from the Voyager IRIS model [R. Courtin et al., Bull. Amer. Astron. Soc.13, 722 (1981), and private communication]. The Voyager IRIS model also includes PH3, which is not consistent with the uv albedo from 1800 to 2400 Å. Our model requires a previously unidentified absorber to explain the albedo near 1600 Å. After considering several candidates, we find that the best fit to the data is obtained with H2O, having a column density of (6 ± 1) × 10?3 cm-am.  相似文献   

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A radiative seasonal model which incorporates a multilayer radiative transfer treatment at wave-lengths longward of 7 μm is presented and applied to Saturn's stratosphere. Opacities due to H2-He, CH4, C2H2, and C2H6 are included. Season-dependent insolation is shown to produce a strong hemispheric asymmetry decreasing with depth at the Voyager encounter times, and seasonal amplitudes of 30°K at the poles are predicted in the high stratosphere. The ring-modulated dependence of the insolation and the orbital eccentricity are shown to have a significant effect. Calculations agree closely with the Voyager 1 and 2 radio occultation ingress profiles recorded at 76°S and 36.5°S for CH4/H2 = 3.5 + 1.4/? 1.0 × 10?3;the estimated errors include modeling systematic errors and uncertainties in the occultations profiles. The possible role of aerosols in the stratospheric heating is analyzed. The Voyager 2 egress profile recorded at 31°S cannot be reproduced by calculations. Some constraints on the C2H2 and C2H6 abundances are derived. The upper portion of the occultation profiles (p < 3mbar) can be matched for C2H2/H2 = 1.0 + 1.3/?0.6 × 10?7, C2H6/H2 = 1.5 + 1.8/?0.9 × 10?6 at 76°S and C2H2/H2 = 4 + 6/?4 × 10?8, C2H6/H2 = 6 + 9/?6 × 10?7 at 36.5°N. At the northern occultation latitude, the discrepancy with the concentrations derived from analysis of IRIS spectra by R. Courtin, D. Gautier, A. Marten, B. Bézard, and R. Hanel (1984, Astrophys. J.287) can be explained by a sharp variation of the mixing ratios of these gases with altitude in the upper stratosphere. Other interpretations are discussed.  相似文献   

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Lis  D. C.  Mehringer  D. M.  Benford  D.  Gardner  M.  Phillips  T. G.  Bockelée-Morvan  D.  Biver  N.  Colom  P.  Crovisier  J.  Despois  D.  Rauer  H. 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》1997,78(1-3):13-20
We present millimeter-wave observations of HNCO, HC3N, SO, NH2CHO, H13CN, and H3O+ in comet C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp)obtained in February–April, 1997 with the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO). HNCO, first detected at the CSO in comet C/1996B2 (Hyakutake), is securely confirmed in comet Hale-Bopp via observations of three rotational transitions. The derived abundance with respect to H2O is (4-13) × 10-4. HC3N, SO, and NH2CHO are detected for the first time in a comet. The fractional abundance of HC3N based on observations of three rotational lines is (1.9 ± 0.2) × 10-4. Four transitions of SO are detected and the derived fractional abundance, (2-8) ×10-3, is higher than the upper limits derived from UV observations of previous comets. Observations of NH2CHO imply a fractional abundance of (1-8) × 10-4. H3O is detected for the first time from the ground. The H13CN (3-2)transition is also detected and the derived HCN/H13CN abundance ratio is 90 ± 15, consistent with the terrestrial12C/13C ratio. In addition, a number of other molecular species are detected, including HNC, OCS, HCO+, CO+, and CN(the last two are first detections in a comet at radio wavelengths). This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.  相似文献   

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A model is presented for the photochemistry of PH3 in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere of Saturn that includes the effects of coupling with NH3 and hydrocarbon photochemistry, specifically the C2H2 catalyzed photodissociation of CH4. PH3 is rapidly depleted with altitude (scale height ~35 km) in the upper troposphere when K~104cm2sec?1; an upper limit for K at the tropopause is estimated at ~105cm2sec?1. If there is no gas phase P2H4 because of sublimation, P2 and P4 formation is unlikely unless the rate of the spin-forbidden recombination reaction PH + H2 + M → PH3 + M is exceedingly slow. An upper limit P4 column density of ~2×1015cm?2 is estimated in the limit of no recombination. If sublimation does not remove all gas phase P2H4, P2 and P4 may be produced in potentially larger quantities, although they would be restricted almost entirely to the lowest levels of our model, where T?100°K. Potentially observable amounts of the organophosphorus compounds CH3P2H2 and HCP are predicted, with column densities of >1017 cm?2 and production rates of ~2×108cm?2sec?1. The possible importance of electronically excited states of PHx and additional PH3/hydrocarbon photochemical coupling paths are also considered.  相似文献   

14.
G.S. Orton  H.H. Aumann 《Icarus》1977,32(4):431-436
The Q and R branches of the C2H2 ν5 fundamental, observed in emission in an aircraft spectrum of Jupiter near 750 cm?1, have been analyzed with the help of an improved line listing for this band. The line parameters have been certified in the laboratory with the same interferometer used in the Jovian observations. The maximum mixing ratio of C2H2 is found to be between 5 × 10?8 and 6 × 10?9, depending on the form of its vertical distribution and the temperature structure assumed for the lower stratosphere. Most consistent with observations of both Q and R branches are: (1) distributions of C2H2 with a constant mixing ratio in the stratosphere and a cutoff at a total pressure of 100 mbar or less, and (2) the assumption of a temperature at 10?2 bar which is near 155°K.  相似文献   

15.
A mechanism has been proposed for uv-accelerated desorption from Fe2+ sites on mineral surfaces that satisfies kinetic constraints determined in the laboratory by Huguenin. The process is an integral step of the photochemical weathering mechanism for producing dust on Mars, and it now appears that it may play primary roles in stabilizing CO2 against dissociation by sunlight and in controlling the oxidation state of the atmosphere. We propose that adsorption occurs at octahedrally coordinated Fe2+ surface sites to form seven-coordinate transition-state complexes. These complexes acquire 16–18 kcal mole?1 of ligand field stabilization energy. During illumination (λ ≤ 0.35 μm), electrons are photoemitted from the surfaced Fe2+, temporarily oxidizing them to Fe3+. Fe3+ has no ligand field stabilization energy, and the complexes lose 16–18 kcal mole?1 of stabilization energy. This is a large fraction of the 19- to 28-kcal mole?1 activation energy for dissociating the complexes, and desorption should proceed spontaneously. The gases that were observed to undergo adsorption-photodesorption include O2, CO2, CO, H2O, N2, and Ar. Photodesorption can drive several catalytic reactions, one of which is the oxidation of CO to CO2. The rate of this reaction should be limited by the supply of CO and O2 to the surface to ~2 × 1012 cm?2 sec?1 (column photodissociation rate of CO2). By including this surface reaction in models of Martian atmospheric CO2 chemistry, CO2 can be stabilized against photodissociation with eddy diffusion coefficients of only 3 × 105?1 × 107 cm2 sec?1 below 40 km, raising to ~ 109 cm2 sec?1 at 140 km. Odd hydrogen is not needed to catalyze the oxidation of CO below 40 km, and odd hydrogen mixing ratios need only to be fH ? 10?10 to depress ozone concentrations below the observed upper limit in equatorial regions. Another catalytic reaction that should be driven by photodesorption on Mars is 20H?(ads)H2O + 12O2(g) + 2e?crystal. This is an important source of atmospheric O2, amounting to 7 × 1013?2 × 1017 O2 molecules cm?2 yr?1, and it could have a significant effect on atmospheric oxidation state.  相似文献   

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In an updating of energy characteristics of lightnings on Venus obtained from Venera-9 and -10 optical observations, the flash energy is given as 8 × 108 J and the mean energy release of lightnings is 1 erg cm?2 s which is 25 times as high as that on the Earth. Lightnings were observed in the cloud layer. The stroke rate in the near-surface atmosphere is less than 5 s?1 over the entire planet if the light energy of the stroke exceeds 4 × 105 J and less than 15 s?1 for (1–4) × 105 J.The average NO production due to lightnings equals 5 × 108 cm?2 s?1, the atomic nitrogen production is equal to 7 × 109 cm?2s?1,the N flux toward the nightside is 3.2 × 109 cm?2s?1, the number densities [N] = 3 × 107cm?3 and [NO] = 1.8 × 106cm?3 at 135 km. Almost all NO molecules in the upper atmosphere vanish interacting with N and the resulting NO flux at 90-80 km equals 5 × 105cm?2s?1, which is negligibly small as compared with lightning production. If the predissociation at 80–90 km is regarded as the single sink of NO, its mixing ratio, fNO, is 4 × 10?8, for the case of a surface sink fNO = 0.8 × 10?9 at 50 km. Excess amounts, fNO ? 4 × 10?8, may exist in the thunderstorm region.  相似文献   

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S. Kumar  D.M. Hunten  J.B. Pollack 《Icarus》1983,55(3):369-389
Nonthermal escape processes responsible for the escape of hydrogen and deuterium from Venus are examined for present and past atmospheres. Three mechanisms are important for the escape of hydrogen from the present atmosphere: (a) charge exchange of plasmaspheric H+ with exospheric H, (b) impact of exospheric hot O atoms on H, and (c) ion molecule reactions involving O+ and H2. However, in the past when the H abundance was higher, the charge-exchange mechanism would be the strongest. The H escape flux increases rapidly with increasing hydrogen abundance in the upper atmosphere and saturates at a value of 1 × 1010 cm?2 sec?1 emerging primarily from the day side when the H mixing ratio at the homopause is 2 × 10?3. This corresponds to an H2O mixing ratio of 1 × 10?3 at the cold trap and ~15% at the surface. Deuterium would also escape by the charge-exchange mechanism and a D/H enrichment by a factor of ~1000 over the nonthermal escape regime is expected, which could have lasted over the last 3 billion years. Coincidentally, the onset of hydrodynamic flow leading to efficient H escape occurs just at the H2O mixing ratio at which the charge-exchange escape flux saturates. Thus it is possible that Venus has lost an Earth-equivalent ocean of water over geologic time. If so, either the D/H enrichment has been kept low by modest outgassing of juvenile water or Venus started out with a D/H ratio of ~4.0 × 10?6.  相似文献   

18.
Vladimir Krasnopolsky 《Icarus》2012,219(1):244-249
To search for DCl in the Venus atmosphere, a spectrum near the D35Cl (1–0) R4 line at 2141.54 cm?1 was observed using the CSHELL spectrograph at NASA IRTF. Least square fitting to the spectrum by a synthetic spectrum results in a DCl mixing ratio of 17.8 ± 6.8 ppb. Comparing to the HCl abundance of 400 ± 30 ppb (Krasnopolsky [2010a] Icarus, 208, 314–322), the DCl/HCl ratio is equal to 280 ± 110 times the terrestrial D/H = 1.56 × 10?4. This ratio is similar to that of HDO/H2O = 240 ± 25 times the terrestrial HDO/H2O from the VEX/SOIR occultations at 70–110 km. Photochemistry in the Venus mesosphere converts H from HCl to that in H2O with a rate of 1.9 × 109 cm?2 s?1 (Krasnopolsky [2012] Icarus, 218, 230–246). The conversion involves photolysis of HCl; therefore, the photochemistry tends to enrich D/H in HCl and deplete in H2O. Formation of the sulfuric acid clouds may affect HDO/H2O as well. The enriched HCl moves down by mixing to the lower atmosphere where thermodynamic equilibriums for H2 and HCl near the surface correspond to D/H = 0.71 and 0.74 times that in H2O, respectively. Time to establish these equilibriums is estimated at ~3 years and comparable to the mixing time in the lower atmosphere. Therefore, the enriched HCl from the mesosphere gives D back to H2O near the surface. Comparison of chemical and mixing times favors a constant HDO/H2O up to ~100 km and DCl/HCl equal to D/H in H2O times 0.74.Ammonia is an abundant form of nitrogen in the reducing environments. Thermodynamic equilibriums with N2 and NO near the surface of Venus give its mixing ratio of 10?14 and 6 × 10?7, respectively. A spectrum of Venus near the NH3 line at 4481.11 cm?1 was observed at NASA IRTF and resulted in a two-sigma upper limit of 6 ppb for NH3 above the Venus clouds. This is an improvement of the previous upper limit by a factor of 5. If ammonia exists at the ppb level or less in the lower atmosphere, it quickly dissociates in the mesosphere and weakly affects its photochemistry.  相似文献   

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《Icarus》1987,70(2):354-365
Liquid solutions of N2 containing up to one-third CH4 can exist on Triton's surface in regions T > 62.5°K. More generally, subsurface oceans of N2 solution are expected to be stable beneath overlying, thermally insulating, less dense layers of the abundant light hydrocarbon products of radiochemical synthesis: C2H6, C3H8, and C4H10. Cosmic rays are the main source of energy, capable of producing synthesis of organic compounds from N2CH4 solutions on the surface. For baseline Triton models with R = 2500 km, ϱ = 2.1 g cm−3, and Ts = 65 or 55°K, respectively, 4 × 10−3 or 7 × 10−3 erg cm−2 sec−1 (49 or 87% of the total incident flux) is deposited within a few meters below the surface. Using yields from laboratory experiments, we estimate the quantities of products produced: over 4.5 billion years, the cosmic ray flux alone produces 2 to 4 m of organic product, about half of which is C2H6. For ocean depths <250 m, C2H6 will reach its saturation limit and form a surface “slick.” For ocean depths <10 km, all of the other products also oversaturate and exsolve, adding to the surface slick and/or to a denser bottom sediment. Products produced from solid N2CH4 mixtures will accumulate as evaporite deposits because of the rapid volatile transport (of N2 and CH4) over Triton's surface. The complex, reddish organic solid found in laboratory simulations is probably the source of Triton's reddish color. Estimated yields over 4.5 billion years (for 7 × 10−3 erg cm−2 sec−1) are 190 (C2H6), 58 (NH3), 17 (HCN), 3.5 (HN3), 2.5 (C4H10), 0.35 (CH3CN), and 0.14 (C2H5N3) g cm−2. More basic laboratory work on the low-temperature, low-pressure solvent properties and phase equilibria of N2-hydrocarbon systems is clearly needed.  相似文献   

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V.A. Krasnopolsky 《Icarus》1979,37(1):182-189
Observations and model calculations of water vapor diffusion suggest that about half the amount of water vapor is distributed with constant mixing ratio in the Martian atmosphere, the other half is the excess water vapor in the lower troposphere. During 24 hr the total content of water vapor may vary by a factor of two. The eddy diffusion coefficient providing agreement between calculations and observations is K = (3–10) × 106 cm2 sec?1 in the troposphere. An analytical expression is derived for condensate density in the stratosphere in terms of the temperature profile, the particle radius r, and K. The calculations agree with the Mars 5 measurements for r = 1.5 μm, condensate density 5 × 10?12 g/cm3 in the layer maximum at 30 to 35 km, condensate column density 7 × 10?6 cm?2, K = (1?3) × 106 cm2 sec?1, and the temperature profile T = 185 ? 0.05z ? 0.01z2 at 20 to 40 km. Condensation conditions yield a temperature of 160°K at 60 km in the evening; the scale height for scattered radiation yields T = 110°k at 80 to 90 km. The Mars model atmosphere has been developed up to 125 km.  相似文献   

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