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4-1980 8:00 AM

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Environments of planets are of great interest in this age of space probing. The nature of the atmosphere and its ability to support life is of primary interest today. This paper concerns the use of spectroscopic probing as a means to determine the composition and behavior of planetary atmospheres and nebulae.

One of the most sensitive methods of obtaining properties of gaseous mixtures is the method of probing resonance conditions of one or more molecular species within the mixture. For example, a mixture containing S02 and other gases could be studied by observing the structure and shape of a resonance profile of S02 in the presence of the unknown gases and comparing these observations with the resonance nature of isolated S02 molecules. Such a method can be employed to study the motion of molecules within the gaseous space through Doppler shift and these results used to determine atmospheric motion.

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Molecular Probing at Microwave Frequencies as a Means of Studying Atmospheric Motion and Composition

Environments of planets are of great interest in this age of space probing. The nature of the atmosphere and its ability to support life is of primary interest today. This paper concerns the use of spectroscopic probing as a means to determine the composition and behavior of planetary atmospheres and nebulae.

One of the most sensitive methods of obtaining properties of gaseous mixtures is the method of probing resonance conditions of one or more molecular species within the mixture. For example, a mixture containing S02 and other gases could be studied by observing the structure and shape of a resonance profile of S02 in the presence of the unknown gases and comparing these observations with the resonance nature of isolated S02 molecules. Such a method can be employed to study the motion of molecules within the gaseous space through Doppler shift and these results used to determine atmospheric motion.

 

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