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All planets and moons hang on to their gasses through gravity. I would think our understanding of solar system formations and solar winds makes the likelihood o
by wredue 3y ago
All planets and moons hang on to their gasses through gravity. I would think our understanding of solar system formations and solar winds makes the likelihood of lots of helium being in the outer system being quite high.
The temperature is not related to holding on to the helium, but to its density for higher efficiency farming.
- pfdietz 3y agoThe temperature at the exobase does have an effect on retention of helium. If it's high enough (relative to the escape energy of the planet) the high energy tail of the thermal distribution will leak atoms into space.