Uhm, isn't "natrium" Latin for sodium, which is a metal? This metal atmosphere is 90 times as deep as Earth's, AND it's just beginning to form?
I'm having trouble wrapping my head around an atmosphere of metal. Sulphuric acid rain (Venus) was hard enough, thanks. This new "information" is just a bit hard to swallow.
Unless this is some other planet's moon, but even then I'd have expected news like this would be front and centre everywhere.
“This new “information” is just a bit hard to swallow.”
Understood. my point is if it’s a choice between this fledgling theory or cow farts that are effecting Venus....
well, I know which one I’ll go with.
“I’d have expected news like this would be front and centre everywhere.”
NASA is about as mainstream as you can get.
“As our solar system evolves, the amount of planets that are habitable is possibly increasing.”
http://center.arc.nasa.gov/2007/11/05/are-planets-more-habitable-because-of-solar-system-changes/