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How come gas in this planet does not leak out to outer space???

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Look at planets like Jupiter. It's a gas giant, over 300 times more massive than earth. Lots of gas, but because of gravity it does not dissapate into space.
 
Well, as Ozone has 3 parts oxygen, and normal air has only 2 parts oxygen, the Ozone is actually heavier than air, which causes it to sink towards the ground. Now, factor in all the airplanes that take off every day, the backwash from the plane leaving the ground creates a vacuum effect, and pulls the Ozone back up into the atmosphere, where it slowly falls back again, and the process is repeated.

There.. problem solved... 😉
 
Originally posted by: malcontent
Well, as Ozone has 3 parts oxygen, and normal air has only 2 parts oxygen, the Ozone is actually heavier than air, which causes it to sink towards the ground. Now, factor in all the airplanes that take off every day, the backwash from the plane leaving the ground creates a vacuum effect, and pulls the Ozone back up into the atmosphere, where it slowly falls back again, and the process is repeated.

There.. problem solved... 😉
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What about the oksigen? 😕
 
Originally posted by: bootymac
Originally posted by: malcontent
Well, as Ozone has 3 parts oxygen, and normal air has only 2 parts oxygen, the Ozone is actually heavier than air, which causes it to sink towards the ground. Now, factor in all the airplanes that take off every day, the backwash from the plane leaving the ground creates a vacuum effect, and pulls the Ozone back up into the atmosphere, where it slowly falls back again, and the process is repeated.

There.. problem solved... 😉
Click to expand...

What about the oksigen? 😕
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Crap! I forgot about the oksigen... (goes off to look up the properties of oksigen)
 
Bah, ignore them. Think about it. As earth is moving forward in its elliptical orbit, it "drops" some of the atmosphere behind, leaving a vapor trail. Then, when the earth is coming back around again, it runs into the stuff it dropped, and picks it back up (while dropping more atmosphere behind). Common sense should have told you this.

What's really fortunate is that the earth's period of revolution is roughly 365.25 days. That means it's off by a quarter of a day each time it goes around the sun. That way, it helps keep the atmosphere distributed all the way around the earth more evenly. Unfortunately, the tilt of the axis, coupled with that quarter day, results in the ozone layer at the north and south poles changing size, because they're tilted away, so lose their atmosphere more often sometimes, and later are tilted toward the sun and pick up more of the atmosphere at other times. Thus, instead of a continuous loss and gain, it's a more lengthy loss, followed by a more lengthy gain.

Feel free to quote me if this is a homework problem. If you need more, I can go into more details. 🙂 😛
 
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