Abstract:The successful launching of artificial satellites has inaugurated a new era in planetary astronomy. Already a greatly improved model for the uppermost layers of the terrestrial atmosphere has resulted [i] which has repercussions on the general problem of escape of planetary atmospheres to space. The interaction of planetary atmospheres with the interplanetary gas flowing from the Sun and the effects of planetary magnetic fields on the motion of this gas promise to be clarified next. The surface of the Moon, of… Show more
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