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For questions about the gases which surround a planet or some other celestial body.

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Prevailing winds on a rotating space habitat

BUT (here comes the interesting part): what really causes the wind currents in the atmosphere are the thermal differences. …
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Prevailing winds on a rotating space habitat

Example with an O´Neill cylinder Because this is a question science based, let´s take a standard O´Neill cylinder. This was a space settlement design proposed by American physicist Gerard K. O'Neill …
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What color should the snow be in this chlorine world?

Long history short: The world is Earth-like (same biochemistry, carbon based also and oxygen breathers) but the atmosphere contains 1% chlorine. Steven L. … Gillett explains about the atmosphere: "Chlorine is colored; as all the chemistry texts say, it’s a “greenish yellow” gas. It absorbs blue light (and shorter wavelengths) strongly." …
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