<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : atmosphere : RSS 2.0</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><webMaster>plime.com</webMaster><copyright>2008, plime.com.</copyright><lastBuildDate></lastBuildDate><pubDate></pubDate><generator>Plime/1</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><image><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : atmosphere : RSS 2.0</title><url>http://www.plime.com/images/logo.gif</url><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link></image><item><title><![CDATA[Organic 'building blocks' discovered in Titan's atmosphere]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists analysing data gathered by the Cassini spacecraft have confirmed the presence of heavy negative ions in the upper regions of Titan&#8217;s atmosphere. These particles may act as organic building blocks for even more complicated molecules and their discovery was completely unexpected because of the chemical composition of the atmosphere (which lacks oxygen and mainly consists of nitrogen and methane).]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43234/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43234/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Origin of &quot;Breathable&quot; Atmosphere on Earth Found]]></title><description><![CDATA[Geologists have uncovered evidence of when Earth may have first supported an oxygen-rich atmosphere similar to the one we breathe today. The study suggests that upheavals in the earth&#8217;s crust initiated a kind of reverse-greenhouse effect 500 million years ago that cooled the world&#8217;s oceans, spawned giant plankton blooms, and sent a burst of oxygen into the atmosphere.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/39852/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/39852/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Saturn Does the Wave in Upper Atmosphere]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two decades of scrutinizing Saturn are finally paying off, as scientists have discovered a wave pattern, or oscillation, in Saturn's atmosphere only visible from Earth every 15 years.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/61134/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/61134/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Origin of Hiss in Upper Atmosphere Identified]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists have solved a 40-year-old puzzle by identifying the origin of the intense radio waves in the Earth's upper atmosphere that control the dynamics of the Van Allen radiation belts &#8212; belts consisting of high-energy electrons that can damage satellites and spacecraft and pose a risk to astronauts performing activities outside their spacecraft.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/53279/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/53279/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Setting stars reveal planetary secrets]]></title><description><![CDATA[Watching the stars set from the surface of the Earth may be a romantic pastime but when a spacecraft does it from orbit, it can reveal hidden details about a planet&#8217;s atmosphere. It works by watching stars from space, while they drop behind the atmosphere of a planet under investigation, before disappearing from view below the planet&#8217;s horizon.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40725/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40725/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Volcanic moon&#8217;s gassy mystery solved]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jupiter's volcanic moon Io is veiled by a thin atmosphere, but how much its volcanoes and chunks of frozen gas contribute to its atmosphere has puzzled scientists for decades. The New Horizons spacecraft recently documented the moon's glowing aurora, however, giving researchers a chance to solve the atmospheric mystery.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/38500/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/38500/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Cluster watches Earth&#8217;s leaky atmosphere]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oxygen is constantly leaking out of Earth&#8217;s atmosphere and into space. Now, ESA&#8217;s formation-flying quartet of satellites, Cluster, has discovered the physical mechanism that is driving the escape. It turns out that the Earth&#8217;s own magnetic field is accelerating the oxygen away.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/74580/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/74580/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Sun's Atmosphere Sings ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Astronomers have recorded heavenly music bellowed out by the Sun&#8217;s atmosphere.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17143/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17143/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Jupiter Caught in Rare, Calm Period ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jupiter's atmosphere froths with violent winds and mega-storms as large as the entire Earth, but a recent spacecraft flyby captured the planet in an &quot;unusually calm period,&quot; astronomers said. Calm on Jupiter, however, still makes terrestrial hurricanes look like breezes.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37791/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37791/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[The final frontier teeming with man-made rubbish: The incredible pictures of 'space junk' swirling round Earth's orbit]]></title><description><![CDATA[It used to be called the final frontier - the great unknown only the most prized and powerful technology could conquer.<br/><br/>But now, as these images show, the space beyond our atmosphere has become yet one more place blighted by man-made litter, with potentially devastating results.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/58281/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/58281/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Strange Molecule Found in Venus's Atmosphere ]]></title><description><![CDATA[A strange gaseous molecule has been discovered lurking in the atmospheres of both Mars and Venus, scientists announced today, adding that it could affect Venus's hyperactive greenhouse effect.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37944/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37944/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists enhance Mother Nature's carbon handling mechanism]]></title><description><![CDATA[Taking a page from Nature herself, a team of researchers developed a method to enhance removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and place it in the Earth's oceans for storage.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/40903/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/40903/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Lunar eclipse may shed light on climate change]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last month's lunar eclipse not only treated skygazers to a ruddy view of the Moon &#8211; it revealed that Earth's atmosphere contains little light-blocking volcanic dust.<br/><br/>Some researchers say the low volcanic dust levels in the atmosphere over the last dozen years could be contributing to global warming, but others dispute the claim.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/53062/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/53062/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[A dash of lime - a new twist that may cut CO2 levels back to pre-industrial levels]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists say they have found a workable way of reducing CO2 levels in the atmosphere by adding lime to seawater. And they think it has the potential to dramatically reverse CO2 accumulation in the atmosphere.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/69664/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/69664/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Key Molecule Found In Venus Atmosphere]]></title><description><![CDATA[Venus Express has detected the molecule hydroxyl on another planet for the first time. This detection gives scientists an important new tool to unlock the workings of Venus's dense atmosphere.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/62291/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/62291/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[2006 Antarctic ozone loss highest ever]]></title><description><![CDATA[CFCs and pollution stored in the atmosphere cause the ozone holes, which are expected to persist for the next couple of decades.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/1925/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/1925/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Sun&#8217;s Magnetic Secret Revealed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Powerful magnetic waves have been confirmed for the first time as major players in the process that makes the sun's atmosphere strangely hundreds of times hotter than its already superhot surface. The magnetic waves &#8212; called Alfven waves &#8212; can carry enough energy from the sun's active surface to heat its atmosphere, or corona.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/48023/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/48023/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Mysterious &#8220;Twilight Zone&#8221; Found Around Clouds]]></title><description><![CDATA[It might not be &#8220;the&#8221; twilight zone depicted on television many years ago, but a real one has been discovered in the earth&#8217;s atmosphere.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/19222/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/19222/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[First Sunset Outside Our Solar System Glimpsed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Traces of a distant extrasolar planet's hazy red sunset have been detected for the first time. Astronomers pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at HD 189733b, a gaseous Jupiter-like world about 63 light-years from Earth, as it passed in front of its parent star to catch a glimpse of the planet's atmosphere.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44006/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44006/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[XMM-Newton reveals X-rays from gas streams around young stars]]></title><description><![CDATA[XMM-Newton has surveyed nearly two hundred stars under formation to reveal, contrary to expectations, how streams of matter fall onto the young stars&#8217; magnetic atmospheres and radiate X-rays.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/22387/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/22387/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item></channel></rss>