Chapter X

- Atmospheric Basics
- The moon and mercury have so little atmosphere that some call them airless
- No wind or weather of any kind
- Venus is encapsulated by a large thick atmosphere composed of mostly carbon dioxide
- Surface conditions are so hot that robots are unable to survive long
- Mars also has a carbon dioxide atmosphere, but its air is so thin that body tissues would
bulge out unless you have a space suit
- Atmosphere is a layer of gas that surrounds a world
- ⅔ of the atmosphere of the Earth lies within 10 km of the surface
- Temperature in the terrestrial atmospheres are generally low enough for atoms to
combine into molecules
- Atmospheric Pressure
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