The Response of Planetary Atmospheres to the Impact of Icy Comets. III. Impact Driven Atmospheric Escape
F. Sainsbury-Martinez et al 2026 ApJ 1001 57 Simulations suggest that tidally locked planets have similar atmospheric escape rates to Earth analogs despite having cooler and drier atmospheres near…
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