[HN Gopher] In contrast to Earth, Mars's middle atmosphere appea...
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       In contrast to Earth, Mars's middle atmosphere appears driven by
       gravity waves
        
       Author : wglb
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2025-03-09 03:15 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (phys.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (phys.org)
        
       | wglb wrote:
       | Referenced article:
       | https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JE00...
        
       | colanderman wrote:
       | > Not to be confused with gravitational waves from massive
       | stellar bodies, [gravity waves] are an atmospheric phenomenon
       | when a packet of air rises and falls due to variations in
       | buoyancy.
       | 
       | For those similarly confused by the title as I.
        
         | stronglikedan wrote:
         | I used to thing programmers were bad a naming things until I
         | became interested in physics.
        
           | DiggyJohnson wrote:
           | Related to this discussion, astronomers' usage of 'metal' is
           | a fun example.
        
             | hamilyon2 wrote:
             | And musicians!
        
             | dylan604 wrote:
             | Salts in chemistry too
        
             | dmoy wrote:
             | "it can't be that bad, can it?"
             | 
             | > astronomers use the word metals as convenient shorthand
             | for all elements except hydrogen and helium
             | 
             | what, ok
        
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