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According to military legend, German gunners encountered a strange phenomenon while attempting to shell Paris in 1918. They aimed their super-gun of the day, the 210 mm Long Max, at Paris from 70 miles to the northeast. It was said that despite a dogged determination on the part of the German military, the projectiles continually missed, curving away and hitting ground 0.7 miles west of the capital. Were the gunners simply poorer shots than they believed, or was something more fundamental at work? This unusual legend illuminates an unexpected property of rotating bodies – the Coriolis effect. This phenomenon has serious implications for the habitability of red dwarf worlds.
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Dr. Jun Yang (University of Chicago) has modelled atmospheres on tidally-locked planets and these have a cloudy sun-lit side and largely cloud-free dark side. The cloud serves to lower temperatures on the lit hemisphere.
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Stevenson, D.S. (2013). Stability of Habitable Atmospheres on Red Dwarf Worlds. In: Under a Crimson Sun. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8133-1_6
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