Methane clathrates in the Solar System
We review the reservoirs of methane clathrates that may exist in the different bodies of the Solar System. Methane was formed in the interstellar medium prior to having been embedded in the protosolar nebula gas phase. This molecule was subsequently trapped in clathrates that formed from crystalline...
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ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.1510.07693 2023-05-15T16:37:42+02:00 Methane clathrates in the Solar System Mousis, Olivier Chassefière, Eric Holm, Nils G. Bouquet, Alexis Waite, Jack Hunter Geppert, Wolf Dietrich Picaud, Sylvain Aikawa, Yuri Ali-Dib, Mohamad Charlou, Jean-Luc Rousselot, Philippe 2015 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1510.07693 https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.07693 unknown arXiv https://dx.doi.org/10.1089/ast.2014.1189 arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ Earth and Planetary Astrophysics astro-ph.EP FOS Physical sciences article-journal Article ScholarlyArticle Text 2015 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1510.07693 https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2014.1189 2022-04-01T12:05:04Z We review the reservoirs of methane clathrates that may exist in the different bodies of the Solar System. Methane was formed in the interstellar medium prior to having been embedded in the protosolar nebula gas phase. This molecule was subsequently trapped in clathrates that formed from crystalline water ice during the cooling of the disk and incorporated in this form in the building blocks of comets, icy bodies, and giant planets. Methane clathrates may play an important role in the evolution of planetary atmospheres. On Earth, the production of methane in clathrates is essentially biological, and these compounds are mostly found in permafrost regions or in the sediments of continental shelves. On Mars, methane would more likely derive from hydrothermal reactions with olivine-rich material. If they do exist, martian methane clathrates would be stable only at depth in the cryosphere and sporadically release some methane into the atmosphere via mechanisms that remain to be determined. Text Ice permafrost DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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We review the reservoirs of methane clathrates that may exist in the different bodies of the Solar System. Methane was formed in the interstellar medium prior to having been embedded in the protosolar nebula gas phase. This molecule was subsequently trapped in clathrates that formed from crystalline water ice during the cooling of the disk and incorporated in this form in the building blocks of comets, icy bodies, and giant planets. Methane clathrates may play an important role in the evolution of planetary atmospheres. On Earth, the production of methane in clathrates is essentially biological, and these compounds are mostly found in permafrost regions or in the sediments of continental shelves. On Mars, methane would more likely derive from hydrothermal reactions with olivine-rich material. If they do exist, martian methane clathrates would be stable only at depth in the cryosphere and sporadically release some methane into the atmosphere via mechanisms that remain to be determined. |
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Mousis, Olivier Chassefière, Eric Holm, Nils G. Bouquet, Alexis Waite, Jack Hunter Geppert, Wolf Dietrich Picaud, Sylvain Aikawa, Yuri Ali-Dib, Mohamad Charlou, Jean-Luc Rousselot, Philippe |
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Mousis, Olivier Chassefière, Eric Holm, Nils G. Bouquet, Alexis Waite, Jack Hunter Geppert, Wolf Dietrich Picaud, Sylvain Aikawa, Yuri Ali-Dib, Mohamad Charlou, Jean-Luc Rousselot, Philippe |
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Methane clathrates in the Solar System |
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