• Question: How Much Does the Sky Weigh?

    Asked by anon-292579 on 23 Apr 2021.
    • Photo: Rosie Goodburn

      Rosie Goodburn answered on 23 Apr 2021:

      Hi CrazyKazza! This is a really cool question! The atmosphere presses on the earth’s surface (and on our skin, from all sides) with a force of about 1 kilogram per 1×1 cm square!

    • Photo: Ed Peake

      Ed Peake answered on 23 Apr 2021:

      All that air, the entire atmosphere, weighs about 5 million billion tons! Although like Rosie said, we don’t get crushed because all that weight is distributed evenly over the entire surface of the Earth.

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