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Planetary atmospheres
2 questions tagged Planetary atmospheres — spanning every one of the seven Ws.
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Which mission first detected lightning on another planet?
Voyager and later missions provided evidence of lightning on Jupiter, but the first strong direct observations of lightning on another planet came from the Galileo probe and orbiter in the 1990s. Jupiter is the best-known example.
AstronomyPlanetary atmospheres
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Whose work first explained how sunlight is reflected and absorbed differently by different planetary atmospheres?
Svante Arrhenius was an early pioneer of the greenhouse effect, but planetary atmospheric physics was later developed by scientists such as James Hansen and others. For planets, the key idea is that atmosphere composition changes temperature by trapping or reflecting heat.
Solar SystemPlanetary atmospheres