Iron and manganese transformation reactions greatly impact a variety of environmental and biogeochemical processes in the environment, including the transport and degradation of inorganic and organic contaminants, the cycling of organic carbon, and the transformation a variety of other biogeochemically important chemical species. In addition, as essential nutrient, iron exerts a substantial control on ocean productivity and export of organic matter to the deep ocean.

The conditions required for Earth-like life to emerge on a planetary body are thought to include the presence of liquid water, the availability of energy and the existence of organic material. There are situations when determining whether the above conditions exist on a planetary body is not possible without a detailed understanding of the radiative processes occurring in a planet's atmosphere. In this work, studies of the radiative flux and transfer within planetary atmospheres are carried out in order to elucidate whether certain planetary bodies may be habitable.