atmosphere
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The intense energy coming from the stellar remnant is likely stripping material from the planet's outer atmosphere.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026
A warmer atmosphere holds more moisture, allowing rains to turn more extreme.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
In late winter, the waves of energy released by El Niño can move upwards through the atmosphere making it more likely that the polar vortex becomes disrupted, increasing the chance of ice and snow.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Those opposed to federal regulation of AI point out that early on, Manhattan Project scientists worried that the first atomic test might ignite the earth’s atmosphere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
There was no way to communicate by radio with a ship speeding through the atmosphere.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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One of the driving questions that the James Webb Space Telescope is being used to answer is whether planets orbiting stars much smaller than the sun have atmospheres.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
Because the four other lava worlds found to have atmospheres are in the ultra-hot regime, it raises questions about whether there's a critical transition temperature when silicate atmospheres start becoming very thick.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
The goal of the program, which is looking at 10 ultra-hot lava worlds, is to see if there's a critical temperature over which you start seeing planets with atmospheres.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
Willets focuses on DJ and experiential atmospheres, rather than live music venues and locales.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Perhaps organisms that float in dense planetary atmospheres will be very much like us in their atomic composition, except they might not have bones and therefore not need much calcium.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Eric Ambler led a school during the United Front period of the '30s with wonderfully atmosphered thrillers in which the heroes, or their allies, were Soviet security men.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Or rather, it left its ghosts behind it, ever shifting forms and shadows, each atmosphered in its own ethereal mood.
From Weighed and Wanting by George MacDonald
Not after all the other new Earths, freezing cold or methane atmosphered or at best completely waterless.
From The First Day of Spring by Mari Wolf
It had atmosphered itself with rich perfume, and something far richer, for three thousand miles.
From Among the Forces by Henry White Warren
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