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BepiColombo spies escaping oxygen and carbon in unexplored region of Venus's magnetosphere - EurekAlert
<p>A fleeting visit of the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission to Venus has revealed surprising insights into how gases are stripped away from the upper layers of the planet’s atmosphere. Detections in a previously unexplored region of Venus’s magnetic environment show that carbon and oxygen are being accelerated to speeds where they can escape the planet’s gravitational pull. The results have been published today in the journal <em>Nature Astronomy</em>.</p>
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