353quantity is certainly very minute. Ammonia in the earth's atmosphere probably is present in trace amounts only. Spectroscopic evidence for methane and ammonia and the measurement of the amounts of these gases in the earth's atmosphere is important because of possible implications in connection with the tremendous abundance of the two gases in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn.A complete report on the evidence for ammonia in the earth's atmosphere will appear in the Astrophysical Journal.
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