A pure CH4 atmosphere would rapidly escape from Pluto. For such an atmosphere, even CH4 frosts on Pluto's surface would completely sublimate on a time scale short compared to Pluto's life. Observations of CH4 therefore imply that its atmosphere must also contain another gas in significant quantity.
Comments on Pluto's atmosphere
01.04.1982
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Stability of Pluto's atmosphere
NTRS | 1982
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|Pluto's atmospheric bulk near perihelion
Elsevier | 1981
|Eris: Pluto's verre dubbelganger
Online Contents | 2012
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