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| Jan 23, 2021 at 21:21 | history | edited | M. A. Golding | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 6, 2020 at 20:55 | comment | added | PcMan | If the moon in question was deep in a massive gravity well, for example in a location like Io around Jupiter... Would not the atmospheric loss be largely negated? It would lose the gas to space, yes, but that gas would hang around in the same orbit as the moon around the bigger gravity source, and the vast majority of it would eventually re-collide with the moon's atmosphere, right? I believe the phrase "gas torus" applies for this phenomenon. The host large planet's magnetic field would also provide a very good shield against solar wind stripping of the atmosphere. | |
| Dec 3, 2020 at 16:29 | comment | added | user80949 | ikr, this answer is empressively long... | |
| Dec 3, 2020 at 15:38 | comment | added | Salami-tsunami | wow, this is quite an impressive answer. | |
| Dec 3, 2020 at 6:34 | history | answered | M. A. Golding | CC BY-SA 4.0 |