Talk:Atmospheric escape
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[edit] Article requires cleanup
It should be edited I think. It clearly sounds like it is take from the middle of a book with references to some Tables which are not there. Also, it is not well written for an encyclopedia. For instance, the Jean escape term is used all over, yet it is mentioned very insiginificantly that Jean escape and thermal escape is the same thing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Louigi Verona (talk • contribs) 16:33, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
I agree. At the bottom are 'sources'. That isn't the Wikipedia format. Youre supposed to cite the work then at the bottom type '{{Reflist}}' Vinson (talk) 01:29, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Example: The Three Little Pigs are brothers [1]
- ^ The Three Little Pigs
[edit] Missing escape processes
The article is missing some escape processes.
The first four should probably be made into redirects once they are added to the article. There is already an article at sputtering. -- Kjkolb 15:00, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] evaporation of oceans
I deleted the following text, under "blow off", from the section on thermal escape: "[blow-off] might possibly be a way for Venus to lose its water early in its history. It is closer to the Sun than the Earth so that early in its history its oceans probably boiled off. Assuming it started with a similar amount of water to Earth, evaporating all its water would lead to an atmosphere with a pressure of 270 bars (the surface of the Earth is at 1 bar) composed almost entirely of super-heated steam."
I'm not sure quite what the relevance is here. Evaporation of the ocean is not the same as escape. Although the first step in getting the water to escape is clearly getting it into the atmosphere, the escape process is different from the evaporation. The surface pressure of 270 bars is irrelevant, since the atmosphere doesn't escape from the surface-- the text seemed to imply that the "tremendous" pressure of 270 bars would cause the atmosphere to just blow off into space, but this is not true-- that 270 bars is actually the pressure downward on the atmosphere, where the gas above the surface holds the gas at the surface down.
It might be desirable to delete the whole "blow off" text, since I don't think it's very clear, and I'm not sure what it has to do with thermal escape. Geoffrey.landis 15:53, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Sourced nonthermal escape section
I edited the article to include all the major nonthermal processes, with scientific journal references. It's bulky, but it all fits into the concept of atmospheric escape. I don't know how to properly attribute the tables with titles and source underneath them, if someone could take care of that, or tell me how to do it, I would feel less bad about reproducing them without citation. It also needs to be cross-referenced throughout. Rendence 20:32, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
