Study: “Persistence of flare-driven atmospheric chemistry on rocky habitable zone worlds” published in Nature Astronomy
January 17, 2021
The study, “Persistence of flare-driven atmospheric chemistry on rocky habitable zone worlds” was published on Dec. 21 in the journal Nature Astronomy.
Northwestern’s Howard Chen, the study’s first author, and Professor Daniel Horton, the study’s senior author, discuss the study in the story, “The upside of volatile space weather” in Northwestern Now. Chen is a Ph.D. candidate in Horton’s Climate Change Research Group and a NASA future investigator.
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