Timeline for Could the Moon keep an atmosphere?
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| S May 24, 2023 at 16:17 | history | suggested | jupp0r | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 24, 2023 at 10:04 | comment | added | Juraj | Just redirect a comet every now and then. How much mass would need to be replenished? If breathable atmosphere is too much, then thinner one to alleviate regolith dust issues. | |
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| Jul 17, 2020 at 18:32 | comment | added | Cornelis | The linked article doesn't tell that an atmosphere would stay only for a thousand years. Where did you get that information from ? | |
| Mar 26, 2019 at 16:33 | comment | added | zephyr0110 | Probably moon can be used to purify air and get high concentration Xeon. :| | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Nov 9, 2015 at 11:46 | vote | accept | James Jenkins | ||
| Nov 6, 2015 at 19:27 | comment | added | PearsonArtPhoto♦ | That would assume that it had an ocean, and I don't think that sounds unreasonable at all... If you have doubts, feel free to open a question on that specific point. | |
| Nov 6, 2015 at 19:04 | comment | added | peterh | The Universetoday article says: "The enormous gravity of the Earth would pull the Moon’s oceans around the planet with 20 meter tides." I am so sorry, but I don't think an article deserves citate which contains such statements :-( | |
| Nov 5, 2015 at 20:17 | comment | added | PearsonArtPhoto♦ | Yeah, the high temperature range for the moon makes that difficult. Still... | |
| Nov 5, 2015 at 19:47 | comment | added | James Jenkins | I think the day time temperature of the moon can reach ~400K, so even the Xenon would tend to get enough energy to escape. I suspect would be a slow process (millions of years?) but not indefinite. | |
| Nov 5, 2015 at 18:13 | comment | added | PearsonArtPhoto♦ | O2 is still too light enough for the moon. See my latest edit. It could be refilled, but Xenon is really the mass of particle required to stay on the Moon without replenishment. | |
| Nov 5, 2015 at 18:11 | history | edited | PearsonArtPhoto♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 5, 2015 at 17:59 | comment | added | LocalFluff | But O2 isn't that very light, and there's a refill potential anyway, lasting evolutionary times. Antelopic animals in herds could breathe and breed and jump high, and graze on fertilized fungi, on such a managed lunatic world made up. | |
| Nov 5, 2015 at 17:44 | comment | added | PearsonArtPhoto♦ | The Solar wind is a less serious effect, which main results in smaller particles. Smaller particles are easier to float away through normal processes. | |
| Nov 5, 2015 at 17:22 | comment | added | LocalFluff | Couldn't the Moon get an ionosphere that somewhat protects it against the Solar wind, like Venus? And wind speeds that super rotates the atmosphere relative to the Sun much faster, again as the weather on tardy Venus, than the Moon itself turns, to even out the day/night temperatures. 60% of the Moon's mass is oxygen, so while the varieties of potential volatiles is limited (no carbon or nitrogen), there's at least no lack of elemental raw material to refill a breathable atmosphere as it outgasses. The mass of Earth's atmosphere is but a millionth of the planet's mass. | |
| Nov 5, 2015 at 13:55 | history | answered | PearsonArtPhoto♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |