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Imagine the earth without atmosphere and describe your imagination in words. (150 Words)​

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Answered by Stera
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Earth Without Atmosphere

Imagination of earth without atmosphere is very scared. I can visualise a picture of nothing just barren lands and lifeless oceans . The Sun on the head and temperature upto 200-500°C and in night when there's freezing cold. Because there will be no green house gases like CO₂ , methane etc. No animal , no plant ,nothing. Just volcanos , lava , rocks and if earth is luck a little bit water. Water will get evaporated because there will be no layers of atmosphere to trap water vapour to it. So the oceans will get dried within a passage of it in absence of atmosphere.

The earth without atmosphere will be lifeless. The atmosphere is basically a gaseous layer and its components are providing basic materials for life.

The value of this question is really great. In such a condition we humans has reached only for our greed and power that one day there will be no atmosphere in reality or kinda similar situation like that. We have to think for our future and have to take immediate steps.

Answered by Ꚃhαtαkshi
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Oxygen makes up about one-fifth the volume of Earth'­s atmosphere today, and is a central element of life as we know it.

But that wasn'­t always the case. Oxygen, although always present in compounds in Earth'­s interior, atmosphere, and oceans, did not begin to accumulate in the atmosphere as oxygen gas (O2) until well into the planet'­s history. What the atmosphere was like prior to oxygen'­s rise is a puzzle that Earth scientists have only begun to piece together.

Earth coalesced a little more than 4.5 billion years ago from bits of cosmic debris. Liquid oceans existed on the planet almost from the beginning, although in all likelihood they were repeatedly vaporized by the massive meteorites that regularly clobbered the planet during its first 700 million years of existence. Things had settled down by 3.8 billion years ago, when the first rocks that formed under water appear in the geologic record. (They exist in what is now southwest Greenland.)

If Earth had water, it must have had an atmosphere, and if it had an atmosphere, it must have had a climate. What was Earth'­s early atmosphere made of? Nitrogen (N2), certainly. Nitrogen makes up the bulk of today'­s atmosphere and likely has been around since the beginning. Water vapor (H2O), probably from volcanic emissions. Carbon dioxide (CO2), also emitted by volcanic eruptions, which were plentiful at that time. And methane (CH4), generated inside the Earth and possibly also by methane-producing microbes that thrived on and in the seafloor, as they do today.

Carbon dioxide, water vapor, and methane played an important role in Earth'­s subsequent development. Four billion years ago, the Sun was 30 percent dimmer, and therefore colder, than it is today. Under such conditions, Earth'­s water should have been frozen, yet clearly it wasn'­t. The water vapor, carbon dioxide, and methane acted as greenhouse gases, trapping heat and insulating the early Earth during a critical period in its development.

Of oxygen, meanwhile, the early atmosphere held barely a trace. What did exist likely formed when solar radiation split airborne molecules of water (H2O) into hydrogen (H2) and oxygen (O2). Hydrogen, a lightweight gas, would have risen above the atmosphere and slowly been lost to space. The heavier oxygen gas, left behind, would have quickly reacted with atmospheric gases such as methane or with minerals on Earth'­s surface and been drawn out of the atmosphere and back into the crust and mantle. Oxygen could only begin to accumulate in the atmosphere if it was being produced faster than it was being removed'—in other words, if something else was also producing it.

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