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Atmospheres of planets, moons, and other solar system bodies excluding stars. For those, use "stellar-atmosphere" instead. For influences of Earth's atmosphere on astronomical observations use "atmospheric-effects". For other questions about the Earth's atmosphere, Earth Science SE is probably the right site. https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/
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Why is Uranus called a "green planet"?
This answer looks into why Uranus is "green" or at least greener compared with Neptune's blue.
Both planets have similar atmospheric compositions and would ordinarily be expected to show similar color …
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Extraterrestrial snow?
It most certainly snows on Mars. As described on this Earth Science SE answer, evidence exists for both water and carbon dioxide snowfall on that planet, with carbon dioxide presumably more prominent …
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Can a tidally locked planet sustain a magnetic field
We have examples of tidally locked objects in our own Solar System.
Ganymede is not a planet orbiting a star, but a tidally locked moon orbiting the giant planet Jupiter. Galileo discovered the presen …
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Acetylene at Uranus? What's JWST's evidence and current thinking of how it's possible?
A compilation of the known compositions of the gas giant planets (by number density), compiled from several sources indicated in the table, is given Lodders 1. References cited in the table [2-6] are …