Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...astronauts recorded the occurrence of lightning for weather analysts, instruments checked the amount of carbon monoxide at different levels of the atmosphere and monitored the rate of growth of sunflower seedlings in the weightless environment...
...Carl Sagan likes to point out, our planetary neighbor Venus seems less the goddess of love than the incarnation of hell. Wrapped in a dense carbon dioxide atmosphere with clouds of sulfuric acid, it is a Dantesque world where surface temperatures reach a lead-melting 900° F and atmospheric pressures are 90 times greater than those on earth. In so grim an environment no life could exist...
Still, as dissimilar as Venus is from earth, scientists see its history as a cautionary tale. They warn that if carbon dioxide continues to build up in the earth's atmosphere as rapidly as it has in the past few decades from burning wood and fossil fuels, the atmosphere will become increasingly like that of Venus. Sunlight will still beat down through the atmosphere, but the CO2 will block heat from radiating back into space, raising global temperatures, melting polar ice and flooding coastal cities...
Accrue nuclear waste, cut forests, burn fossil fuels: Earth devolves into 2nd Venus of carbon dioxide atmosphere (90 times greater pressure), 900 degrees farenheit--and sulfur rain! Henry Ratliff...
...moon was struck by a huge object and badly cracked, but the pieces froze together again like chunks of reformed ice cubes. And why is the strange moon lapetus ten times darker on one side than the other? Scientists found indirect signs that the inky black stuff may be carbon...