{"id":110045,"date":"2020-07-16T15:25:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T22:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/supercomputer-reveals-atmospheric-impact-of-gigantic-planetary-collisions"},"modified":"2020-07-16T15:25:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T22:25:14","slug":"supercomputer-reveals-atmospheric-impact-of-gigantic-planetary-collisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/supercomputer-reveals-atmospheric-impact-of-gigantic-planetary-collisions","title":{"rendered":"Supercomputer reveals atmospheric impact of gigantic planetary collisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/supercomputer-reveals-atmospheric-impact-of-gigantic-planetary-collisions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The giant impacts that dominate late stages of planet formation have a wide range of consequences for young planets and their atmospheres, according to new research.<\/p>\n<p>Research led by Durham University and involving the University of Glasgow, both UK, has developed a way of revealing the scale of atmosphere loss during planetary collisions based on 3D supercomputer simulations.<\/p>\n<p>The simulations show how Earth-like planets with thin atmospheres might have evolved in an <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/early+solar+system\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">early solar system<\/a> depending on how they are impacted by other objects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The giant impacts that dominate late stages of planet formation have a wide range of consequences for young planets and their atmospheres, according to new research. Research led by Durham University and involving the University of Glasgow, both UK, has developed a way of revealing the scale of atmosphere loss during planetary collisions based on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}