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Atmospheres

Atmospheres. By: Josh, Shea, and Brennan. What is an Atmosphere?. An atmosphere is the gasses that surround a planet. Mercury’s Atmosphere. Mercury almost has no atmosphere. It contains molecular oxygen, sodium, hydrogen, helium, potassium, and water vapor.

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Atmospheres

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  1. Atmospheres By: Josh, Shea, and Brennan

  2. What is an Atmosphere? • An atmosphere is the gasses that surround a planet.

  3. Mercury’s Atmosphere • Mercury almost has no atmosphere. • It contains molecular oxygen, sodium, hydrogen, helium, potassium, and water vapor. • Mercury is scorching hot during the day. • At night, it’s frigid cold due to not enough atmosphere to hold in the heat.

  4. Venus’ Atmosphere • Like Mercury, Venus is also very hot and dry. • The atmosphere is made of thick, swirling clouds. • These clouds are burning hot and poisonous. • The clouds also reflect the Sun’s light, making Venus one of the brightest planets.

  5. Earth’s Atmosphere • Earth’s atmosphere contains nitrogen, oxygen, argon, carbon dioxide, neon, helium, methane, krypton, hydrogen, nitrous oxide, xenon, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, iodine, carbon monoxide, and ammonia.

  6. Mars’ Atmosphere • Mars’ atmosphere is very thin. • Mars’ atmosphere is believed to have changed over the planet’s lifetime. • It contains carbon dioxide, nitrogen, argon, oxygen, carbon monoxide, water vapor, nitric oxide, neon, krypton, formaldehyde, xenon, ozone, and methane.

  7. Jupiter’s Atmosphere • Jupiter has the biggest planetary atmosphere in our solar system. • The atmosphere is mostly made of molecular hydrogen and helium.

  8. Saturn’s Atmosphere • The outer atmosphere of Saturn is 96.3% molecular hydrogen and 3.25% helium. • Also, trace amounts of ammonia, acetylene, ethane, methane, and phosphine have been detected.

  9. Uranus’ Atmosphere • Uranus’ atmosphere primarily consists of hydrogen and helium. • It’s inner regions are believed to have an ocean of ammonia, methane and water. • Uranus is classified as an ice giant.

  10. Neptune’s Atmosphere • Like Uranus, Neptune is classified as an ice giant. • It’s atmosphere is mostly hydrogen and helium. • Traces of methane in the outermost region account for Neptune’s blue appearance.

  11. CREDITS • Thank you to wikipedia.com and the 5th grade science book for information on atmospheres. • Made by: Brennan, Shea, and Josh

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