Notes on The Atmosphere

 The Atmosphere

#Atmosphere

#The-thin-blue-line

#Weather

#Earth

This is a short note I have made as part of a bigger article I wanted to make as part of my Knowledge Base in Apple Notes, and a slide presentation

I build up knowledge like this via notes and slides, I find Slides help me organise my thoughts, and the importance of order, snd  Sequence:

The Atmosphere is a thin blanket of gas that surrounds the planet, held in place primarily via  gravity. The magnetic field generated by the Earths core and the spin of the planet, which in effect generates , like an electric engine,, an electric field round the planet, prevents the suns solar wind from stripping away the atmosphere.

Mars, our sister planet, did once have an atmosphere, but the planets core died, and Mars lost its protection, and the atmosphere was swept away by space and the suns wind.

Wiki has a very knowledgeable page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere

Sam Keon Caesars Last Breath has a written a history of our atmosphere, the chemical makeup and its reaction to humans progress, and plants.

Our weather is in part, a mixture of atmospheric reaction to the heat of the sun, earths spin, and its location in the 365 day orbit round the sun.

The Atmophere is not a single gas, its made up of many gasses, and because of gravity, its dencity is highest at ground zero, and reduces the father away from the planit, till we final reach space, no atmosphere a void.

Trees play an important role in cleaning up the armosphere, taking out carbon dioxide and replacing it with Oxygen, 

The Atmospheric "Storeys"

Troposphere (Ground to ~12km): This is the "living floor" where all our weather happens. It contains about 80% of the atmosphere's mass.

Stratosphere (~12km to 50km): This is where the Ozone layer sits. Unlike the lower level, it actually gets warmeras you go up because the Ozone absorbs UV radiation.

Mesosphere (~50km to 85km): The "incinerator" layer. This is where most meteors burn up upon entry due to friction, despite the air being very thin.

Thermosphere (~85km to 600km): This is where the International Space Station orbits. Even though it's technically "space," there are enough gas particles here to cause "orbital drag" on satellites.