Question

How much dose the sky weigh?

Answer 1

Hey!1

(nice question)

I researched and found out that..

Multiply Earths surface area of 197 million square miles by four billion to give you the number of square inches. Take Earths atmospheric pressure being an average 14.7 lbs(6.6kg) per square inch, this means that the sky weighs roughly 5.2 million billion metric tons.

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About 15 pounds

All that air, the entire atmosphere, weighs about 5 million billion tons! We don't get crushed because all that weight is distributed evenly over the entire surface of the Earth. The average force you feel is about 15 pounds on every square inch of your body

Answer 2

How much does the sky weigh?

==] 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 lbs.

The mass of the atmosphere (sky) is about 5.15×10^18 kg

As we go up in the atmosphere the force of gravity decreases, but since our mass is a pretty rough estimate, the change from sea level up to the edge of the atmosphere some where from 60 miles - 100 miles up isn’t actually a huge factor. So it would be reasonable to convert the mass units to weight in pounds. So the sky weighs about 1 x 10^19 pounds.