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Loss of water from Venus. I. Hydrodynamic escape of hydrogen 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
A one-dimensional photochemical-dynamic model is used to study hydrodynamic loss of hydrogen from a primitive, water-rich atmosphere on Venus. The escape flux is calculated as a function of the H2O mixing ratio at the atmospheric cold trap. The cold-trap mixing ratio is then related in an approximate fashion to the H2O concentration in the lower atmosphere. Hydrodynamic escape should have been the dominant loss process for hydrogen when the H2O mass mixing ratio in the lower atmosphere exceeded ～0.1. The escape rate would have depended upon the magnitude of the solar ultraviolet flux and the atmospheric euv heating efficiency and, to a lesser extent, on the O2 content of the atmosphere. The time required for Venus to have lost the bulk of a terrestrial ocean of water is on the order of a billion years. Deutrium would have been swept away along with hydrogen if the escape rate was high enough, but some D/H enrichment should have occurred as the escape rate slowed down. 相似文献
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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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Density profiles for CO, O, and O2 in the Cytherean atmosphere above 90 km are plotted with eddy diffusion coefficient (K) as a parameter, subject to the constraint that the mixing ratios of CO and O2 approach their observed value or values under the observed upper limit at the lower boundary. It is then shown that the value of K puts upper limits on the amount of hydrogen (in the form of H2O, HCl, and H2) the atmosphere near 90km can contain. This value is a function of the density and temperature of hydrogen at the critical level and the magnitude of the total escape flux, where unspecified flux mechanisms other than thermal are postulated ad hoc. In general these constraints call for large values of K to accomodate the atomic hydrogen produced by measured mixing ratios of HCl and H2O. Hence they constrain thee amount of O in the upper atmosphere to values well under 1% at 130 km unless there are very large hydrogen escape fluxes, 107 cm?2sec?1 or larger. The freedom to assume arbitrary amounts of H2 in the atmosphere is also restricted. We suggest either very effective escape mechanisms—despite low exospheric hydrogen densities—or novel excitation mechanisms for O(33S) and O(35S) in the upper atmosphere. 相似文献
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A model of the predawn bulge ionosphere composition and structure is constructed and compared with the ion mass spectrometer measurements from the Pioneer Venus Orbiter during orbits 117 and 120. Particular emphasis is given to the identification of the mass-2 ion which we find unequivocally due to D+ (and not H2+). The atmospheric D/H ratio of 1.4% and 2.5% is obtained at the homopause (～ 130 km) for the two orbits. The H2+ contribution to the mass-2 ion density is less than 10%, and the H2 mixing ratio must be <0.1 ppm at 130 km altitude. The He+ data require a downward He+ flux of ～2 × 107 cm?2 sec?1 in the predawn region which suggest that the light ions also flow across the terminator from day to night along with the observed O+ ion flow. 相似文献
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Michael B. McElroy 《Planetary and Space Science》1975,23(5):763-786
Models are presented for the height distribution of various photochemically active gases in Venus' upper atmosphere. Attention is directed to the chemistry and vertical transport of odd hydrogen (H, OH, HO2, H2O2), odd oxygen (O, O3), free chlorine (Cl, ClO, ClOO, Cl2), CO, O2, H2 and H2O. Supply of O2 may play a limiting role in the formation of a possible H2SO4 cloud on Venus. The supply rate is influenced by both chemical and dynamical processes in the stratosphere, and an analysis of recent spectroscopic data for O2 implies a lower limit to the appropriate eddy coefficient of about 3 × 105 cm2/sec. The abundances of thermospheric O and CO are determined largely by vertical mixing, and an analysis of Mariner 10 measurements of Venus' Lyman α airglow suggests that the eddy coefficient in the lower thermosphere may be as large as 5 × 107cm2sec. The corresponding values for the mixing ratios of O and CO at the ionospheric peak are approximately 1 per cent. The Lyman α data could be reconciled with larger values for thermospheric O, and smaller values for the vertical eddy coefficient, if non-thermal loss processes were to play a dominant role in hydrogen escape, and if the corresponding flux were to exceed 107 atoms/cm2/sec. A sink of this magnitude would imply major depletion of Venus' atmospheric water over geologic time, and would appear to require mixing ratios of H2O in the lower atmosphere in excess of 4 × 10?4. The extensive component to the Lyman α emission measured by Mariner 5 may be due to resonance scattering of sunlight by hot atoms formed by charge transfer with O+. The H scale height, therefore, may reflect the temperature of positive ions in Venus' topside ionosphere. 相似文献
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Results of the scattered solar radiation spectrum measurements made deep in the Venus atmosphere by the Venera 11 and 12 descent probes are presented. The instrument had two channels: spectrometric (to measure downward radiation in the range 0.45 < γ < 1.17 μm) and photometric (four filters and circular angle scanning in an almost vertical plane). Spectra and angular scans were made in the height range from 63 km above the planet surface. The integral flux of solar radiation is 90 ± 12 W m?2 measured on the surface at the subsolar point. The mean value of surface absorbed radiation flux per planetary unit area is 17.5 ± 2.3 W m?2. For Venera 11 and 12 landing sites the atmospheric absorbed radiation flux is ～15 W m?2 for H >; 43 km and ～45 W m?2 for H < 48 km in the range 0.45 to 1.55 μm. At the landing sites of the two probes the investigated portion of the cloud layer has almost the same structure: it consists of three parts with boundaries between them at about 51 and 57 km. The base of clouds is near 48 km above the surface. The optical depth of the cloud layer (below 63 km) in the range 0.5 to 1 μm does not depend on the wavelength and is ～29 and ～38 for the Venera 11 and 12 landing sites, respectively. The single-scattering albedo, ω0, in the clouds is very close to 1 outside the absorption bands. Below 58 km the parameter (1 ? ω0) is <10?3 for 0.49 and 0.7 μm. The parameter (1 ? ω0) obviously increases above 60 km. Below 48 km some aerosol is present. The optical depth here is a strong function of wavelength. It varies from 1.5 to 3 at λ = 0.49 μm and from 0.13 to 0.4 at 1.0 μm. The mean size of particles below the cloud deck is about 0.1 μm. Below 35 km true absorption was found at λ < 0.55 μm with the (1 ? ω0) maximum at H ≈ 15 km. The wavelength and height dependence of the absorption coefficient are compatible with the assumption that sulfur with a mixing ratio ～2 × 10?8 normalized to S2 molecules is the absorber. The upper limits of the mixing ratio for Cl2, Br2, and NO2 are 4 × 10?8, 2 × 10?11, and 4 × 10?10, respectively. The CO2 and H2O bands are confidently identified in the observed spectra. The mean value of the H2O mixing ratio is 3 × 10?5 < FH2O < 10?4 in the undercloud atmosphere. The H2O mixing ratio evidently varies with height. The most probable profile is characterized by a gradual increase from FH2O = 2 × 10?5 near the surface to a 10 to 20 times higher value in the clouds. 相似文献
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The Ultraviolet Spectrometer Experiment on the MARINER 10 spacecraft measured the hydrogen Lyman α emmission resonantly scattered in the Venus exosphere at several viewing aspects during the encounter period. Venus encounter occurred at 17:01 GMT on 5 February 1974. Exospheric emissions above the planet's limb were measured and were analyzed with a spherically symmetric, single scattering, two-temperature model. On the sunlit hemisphere the emission profile was represented by an exospheric hydrogen atmosphere with Tc = 275±50 K and nc = 1.5 × 105 cm?3 and a non-thermal contribution represented by TH = 1250±100 K with nH = 500±100 cm?3. The observations of the dark limb showed that the spherically symmetric model used for the sunlit hemisphere was inappropriate for the analysis of the antisolar hemisphere. The density of the non-thermal component had increased at low altitudes, < 12,000 km, and decreased at high altitudes, > 20,000 km, by comparison. We conclude that the non-thermal source is on the sunward side of the planet. Analysis of the dark limb crossing suggests that the exospheric temperature on the dark side is <125 K if the exospheric density remains constant over the planet; upper limits are discussed. An additional source of Lyman α emission, 70 ± 15 R, was detected on the dark side of the planet and is believed to be a planetary albedo in contrast to multiple scattering from the sunlit side. Our analysis of the MARINER 10 data is consistent when applied to the MARINER 5 data. 相似文献
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Two extreme ultraviolet (EUV) spectrophotometers flown in December 1978 on Venera 11 and Venera 12 measured the hydrogen Lyman α emission resonantly scattered in the atmosphere of Venus. Measurements were obtained across the dayside of the disk, and in the exosphere up to 50,000 km. They were analyzed with spherically symmetric models for which the radiative transfer equation was solved. The H content of the Venus atmosphere varies from optically thin to moderately thick regions. A shape fit at the bright limb allows one to determine the exospheric temperature Tc and the number density nc independently of the calibration of the instrument or the exact value of the solar flux. The dayside exospheric temperature was measured for the first time in the polar regions, with Tc = 300 ± 25°K for Venera 11 (79°S) and Tc = 275 ± 25°K (59°S) for Venera 12. At the same place, the density is nc = 4?2+3 × 104 atom.cm?3, and the integrated number density Nt from 250 to 110 km (the level of CO2 absorption) is 2.1 × 1012 atom.cm?2, a factor of 3 to 6 lower than that predicted in aeronomical models. This probably indicates that the models should be revised in the content of H-bearing molecules and should include the effect of dynamics. Across the disk the value of Nt decreases smoothly with a total variation of two from the morning side to the afternoon side. Alternately it could be a latitude effect, with less hydrogen in the polar regions. The nonthermal component if clearly seen up to 40,000 km of altitude. It is twice as abundant as at the time of Mariner 10 (solar minimum). Its radial distribution above 4000 km can be simulated by an exospheric distribution with T = 1030K and n = 103 atom.cm?3 at the exobase level. However, there are less hot atoms between 2000 and 4000 km than predicted by an ionospheric source. A by-product of the analysis is a determination of a very high solar Lyman α flux of 7.6 × 1011 photons (cm2 sec Å)?1 at line center (1 AU) in December 1978. 相似文献
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The methane abundance in the lower Jovian stratosphere is measured using Galilean satellite eclipse light curves. Spectrally selective observations in and between absorption bands are compared. An average mixing ratio at the locations measured is [CH4]/[H2] ～ 1.3 × 10?3, larger than the value 0.9 × 10?3 expected for a solar abundance of carbon. Some zenographic variation of the mixing ratio may occur. Observationally compatible values are 1.3–2.0 × 10?3 in the STZ, 1.3– 2.6 × 10?3 on the GRS/STrZ edge, and 0.7–1.3 × 10?3 in the GRS. 相似文献
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The photochemistry of the stratosphere of Venus was modeled using an updated and expanded chemical scheme, combined with the results of recent observations and laboratory studies. We examined three models, with H2 mixing ratio equal to 2 × 10?5, 5 × 10?7, and 1 × 10?13, respectively. All models satisfactorily account for the observations of CO, O2, O2(1Δ), and SO2 in the stratosphere, but only the last one may be able to account for the diurnal behavior of mesospheric CO and the uv albedo. Oxygen, derived from CO2 photolysis, is primarily consumed by CO2 recombination and oxidation of SO2 to H2SO4. Photolysis of HCl in the upper stratosphere provides a major source of odd hydrogen and free chlorine radicals, essential for the catalytic oxidation of CO. Oxidation of SO2 by O occurs in the lower stratosphere. In the high-H2 model (model A) the OO bond is broken mainly by S + O2 and SO + HO2. In the low-H2 models additional reactions for breaking the OO bond must be invoked: NO + HO2 in model B and ClCO + O2 in model C. It is shown that lightning in the lower atmosphere could provide as much as 30 ppb of NOx in the stratosphere. Our modeling reveals a number of intriguing similarities, previously unsuspected, between the chemistry of the stratosphere of Venus and that of the Earth. Photochemistry may have played a major role in the evolution of the atmosphere. The current atmosphere, as described by our preferred model, is characterized by an extreme deficiency of hydrogen species, having probably lost the equivalent of 102–103 times the present hydrogen content. 相似文献
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The abundance of H2O is derived from the 1900- to 2100-cm?1 region of the Voyager 1 IRIS spectra. Scale variations of about a factor of 2 are seen in the water abundance between the North and South Equatorial Belts. Averaged over the full disk, the mixing ratio is , if H2O is uniformly mixed in the atmospheric region having temperatures of 230 to 270°K; this result implies a solar depletion by a factor of 100 in this region. In the belts, the best agreement is obtained for a H2O/H2 mixing ratio of 4.0 × 10?6 in the NEB and 7.2 × 10?6 in the SEB, assuming a constant mixing ratio. 相似文献
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James B. Pollack Donald W. Strecker Fred C. Witteborn Edwin F. Erickson Betty J. Baldwin 《Icarus》1978,34(1):28-45
We have measured the shape and absolute value of Venus' reflectivity spectrum in the 1.2-to 4.0-μm spectral region with a circular variable filter wheel spectrometer having a spectral resolution of 1.5%. The instrument package was mounted on the 91-cm telescope of NASA Ames Kuiper Airborne Observatory, and the measurements were obtained at an altitude of about 41,000 feet, when Venus had a phase angle of 86°. Comparing these spectra with synthetic spectra generated with a multiple-scattering computer code, we infer a number of properties of the Venus clouds. We obtain strong confirmatory evidence that the clouds are made of a water solution of sulfuric acid in their top unit optical depth and find that the clouds are made of this material down to an optical depth of at least 25. In addition, we determine that the acid concentration is 84 ± 2% H2SO4 by weight in the top unit optical depth, that the total optical depth of the clouds is 37.5 ± 12.5, and that the cross-sectional weighted mean particle radius lies between 0.5 and 1.4 μm in the top unit optical depth of the clouds. These results have been combined with a recent determination of the location of the clouds' bottom boundary [Marov et al., Cosmic Res.14, 637–642 (1976)] to infer additional properties about Venus' atmosphere. We find that the average volume mixing ratio of H2SO4 and H2O contained in the cloud material both equal approximately 2× 10?6. Employing vapor pressure arguments, we show that the acid concentration equals 84 ± 6% at the cloud bottom and that the water vapor mixing ratio beneath the clouds lies between 6 × 10?4 and 10?2. 相似文献
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Oxidation of CH4 provides the major source for atmospheric H2 which is removed mainly by reaction with OH. Biological activity at the Earth's surface appears to represent at most a minor sink for H2. Anthropogenic activity is a significant source for both H2 and CO in the present atmosphere and may be expected to exert a growing influence in the future. Models are presented which suggest a rise in the mixing ratio of H2 from its present value of 5.6 × 10?7 to about 1.8 × 10?6 by the year 2100. The mixing ratio of CO should grow from 9.7 × 10?8 to 2.3 × 10?7 over the same time period and there should be a rise in CH4 by about a factor of 1.5 associated with anthropogenically induced reductions in tropospheric OH. 相似文献
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A non-thermal, or “hot”, Venus corona of H atoms has been observed by Mariners 5 and 10 and Venera 9. Of the sources investigated, reaction of H2 with ionospheric O+is still the strongest. It can explain the smaller densities but falls somewhat short of the largest (from Mariner 5). The subsequent recombination of OH+, supplemented by solar-wind processes, may give an escape flux of 107 atoms cm?2 s?1. The low density of thermal H atoms on the day side has previously been attributed to either a large eddy diffusion coefficient or an escape flux tenfold greater than this. We support an alternative mechanism, suggested by Hartle and Mayr: the hydrogen is swept to the night side by strong thermospheric winds. This process is analogous to the “Johnson pump” for the terrestrial winter helium bulge. Large nightside bulges of H and H2 are predicted; the night/day density ratio is estimated to be as large as 100 for each. 相似文献
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Models are developed to describe the photochemistry of ozone on Mars. Catalytic reactions involving H, OH and HO2 play a major role at low latitudes where they ensure a vertical column density for O3 of less than 2 × 10?4 cm atm. The source for odd hydrogen (H + OH + HO2) is relatively smaller at high latitudes in winter due to the small concentrations of H2O present there at that time. Odd hydrogen is also efficiently removed from the high-latitude winter atmosphere by condensation of H2O2. The role of catalytic chemistry is reduced accordingly and the vertical column density of O3 may be as large as 5.7 × 10?3 cm atm in accord with earlier observations carried out by Barth and co-workers with instruments on Mariner 9. 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
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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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I.L. Bertaux J. Blamont M. Marcelin V.G. Kurt N.N. Romanova A.S. Smirnov 《Planetary and Space Science》1978,26(9):817-831
The dayside hydrogen exosphere was observed in October–November 1975 with a Lymanalpha photometer carried on board Venera-9 and 10. In addition to intensity measurements, the use of a hydrogen cell allowed for the first time linewidth measurements. Both intensity and linewidth measurements below 1500 km of altitude are well fitted by a single exospheric component (Tc = 500 ± 100 K, nc = 1.5 × 104 atom cm?3at 250 km). Above 3000 km, the measured linewidth increased sharply, to decrease again above 4500 km. This feature is interpreted as the signature of an additional population of “hot” atoms circulating on satellite orbits, created just behind the bow-shock by charge-exchange collisions (with an efficiency of 4%) between the neutral atoms and the solar wind protons, which became turbulent after bow-shock crossing. The density ratio of “hot” to standard population is of the order of 10% around 3500 km of altitude. 相似文献
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William C. Maguire 《Icarus》1977,32(1):85-97
The Mariner 9 infrared spectrometer obtained data over a large part of Mars for almost a year beginning late in 1971. Mars' infrared emission spectrum was measured from 200 to 2000 cm?1 with an apodized resolution of 2.4 cm?1. No significant deviation from terrestrial ratios of carbon (12C/13C) or oxygen (16O/18O; 16O/17O) isotopes was observed on Mars. The 12C/13C isotopic ratio was found to be terrestrial with an uncertainty of 15%. Upper limits have been calculated for several minor constituents. With an effective noise equivalent radiance of 1.2 × 10?9 W cm?2 sr?1/cm?1, new upper limits in centimeter-atmospheres of 2 × 10?5 for C2H2, 4 × 10?3 for C2H4, 3 × 10?3 for C2H6, 2 × 10?4 for CH4, 1 × 10?3 for N2O, 1 × 10?4 for NO2, 4 × 10?5 for NH3, 1 × 10?3 for PH3, 7 × 10?4 for SO2, and 1 × 10?4 for OCS have been derived. 相似文献