What is the band of gases surrounding the earth is called?
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atmostphere which can be divided into troposphere, stratosphere, ionosphere, mesosphere ans exosphere, increasing respectively.
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The gases of the Sun extend far beyond the photosphere, which may be considered the lowest level of the solar atmosphere. The region immediately above the photosphere is called the chromosphere. \n\nObservation of the Chromosphere:\nThe chromosphere is 2000-3000 km thick. It glows faintly relative to the photosphere and can only be seen easily in a total solar eclipse. When it can be seen it is reddish in color (because of strong Balmer H-alpha emission). This color is the origin of its name (chromos meaning ``color''). \n\nThe faint flow of the chromosphere is due to an emission spectrum from hot, low density gases emitting at discrete wavelengths. The discovery of helium noted earlier was from emission lines seen in the chromosphere during an eclipse in 1868. This new element was only found on the Earth in 1895. \n\nSpicules:\nThe chromosphere contains spikes of gas called spicules that rise through it. The adjacent image shows spicules on the limb of the Sun as imaged by the Big Bear Solar Observatory (Ref). This image is a superposition of 11 limb images taken at different wavelengths (click on the image for a larger version that shows the spicules more clearly). In this image the longest spicules rise about 7000 km. Spicules are short-lived phenomena, corresponding to rising jets of gas that move upward at about 30km/sec and last only about 10 minutes.
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Carbon, Iron and Nickle. In that order I believe. \n\nThat is of the earth itself... If you mean of the planet including the atmosphere, then its Hydrogen and Helium.
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Our atmosphere -- the gaseous envelope surrounding the Earth -- is composed of several gases, primarily nitrogen, oxygen, argon and carbon dioxide. Water vapor and minute bits of dust, salt and clay-silicate particles swirl about in the mixture.\nThe atmosphere has four vertical layers that radiate from Earth and vary by temperature and composition. Proceeding from the ground outward, they are the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere and thermosphere.\n\n\nAll of the “optical phenomena” – halos, sun dogs, sun pillars, coronas and rainbows – are produced at specific levels in the troposphere, which extends from the surface up to about 12 kilometers, eight miles or 42,000 feet depending on which measuring stick you pick. Here, the temperature decreases rapidly with altitude – averaging 59°F at the surface and a right chilly -69°F at 11 km. Commercial jets fly in the upper reaches of the troposphere.\n\n\nHigh-level cirrus clouds form in extremely cold air where water vapor condenses on tiny dust and salt particles to form ice \ncrystals.\nHence these are responsible for various phenomena circles aroound light emitting/reflecting bodies on the sky, and the rings are formed depending upon how the light gets scattered and the colours also depend on that.\nVR
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Air is a mixture of atoms and molecules in the gaseous state.  A more technical term for the layers of gases surrounding the Earth is atmosphere. \n\nIf you are interested in what air   is made of and the way the chemicals in air combine and react with other chemicals, you would need to study chemistry.\n\nThe study of weather is meteorology, and would include studying wind and other weather patterns.\n\nThe study of the basic forces and motion of objects, including air would be considered physics.\n\nI have included one link to help you explore this fascinating subject.
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actually nitrogen constitute 78% of earths atmosphere.\n\n\nNitrogen is created as part of the fusion processes in stars so thats where nitrogen comes from.
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mainly CO2, which is why scientists are researching the planets to find out effects/ways to prevent global warming. it is often called "earths evil twin"
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Suppose observers like Spamfighter are correct, let's see how we can explain the following.\nIf you take ice-core samples from various places around the planets ice-caps you can get trapped air that's hundreds of thousands of years old (650,000, more or less). And, sure enough, there does seem to be a pattern of hot-house gas increases and decreases. So for most of this time the earth has been gaining, and then losing these heating elements. \n\nSo far Spamguard & co.'s assertion seem OK. BUT, and this is a big BUT, something else was happening, and it was happening relatively recently. It turns out that since the beginning of the industrial revolution the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has come to be 27% GREATER THAN AT ANY OTHER TIME WITHIN THOSE 650,000 YEARS. Of course, if you're so inclined, you can say it's a "pure coincidence" and that there are other more "complicated" factors.
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they are the names of the air zones that go around the earth
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The earth is continuously bombarded by small cosmic dust particles, ranging in sizes. The bigger onces millimeter size and bigger burn up in the atmosphere of the earth leaving visible traces that may last seconds or longer.
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Up until the time that the earth started forming, the sun had time (I can't speculate, but probably a few billion years) to begin it's nuclear fusion and begin burning. Sol would have been surrounded by thick clouds of dust, ice and gases (see planetary nebulae). The particles of gas and dust began to clump together into larger and larger pieces and began spinning around the sun either falling in their maintainable orbits or falling back into the sun. These clumps continued to come together and the planets were formed in their respective distances around the sun.
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The earths atmosphere\n\n\nMy first thought was not formal. What I thought when I read your question is that nothing is between heaven and earth that "the heavens" come down and touch the earth.
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Well.. the sky would be all the area between the earth till what you would refine as outer space. so basicaly the hight of the gases around the earth would be the sky.. in other words the atmosphere.\n\nhave a look at the article below, devides the atmosphere into differnt stages, pick out what you belive to be the limit of the sky. and good luck to your Man :D
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The earth's spheres 101:\n\nAtmosphere\nComposition: 78% Nitrogen; 21% Oxygen; the rest (1%) is Argon, Carbon Dioxide, and other gases.\nStructure: Has 4 layers divided by temperature changes...\ntroposphere-the layer we live in; most oxygen b/c of gravity; weather occurs here; temp decreases as you go up; atmospheric pressure decreases also\nstratosphere-contains atmospheric ozone layer; jets fly in this layer; temp increases due to ozone layer; pressure continues to decrease\nmesosphere-temp decreases again; meteorites burn up as enters our atmosphere here; temp decreases b/c moving away from ozone layer; pressure decreases\nthermosphere-literally means "heat sphere"; is the hottest of all the layers despite the fact it has the least amount of air b/c cosmic radiation is constantly bombarding air particles; satellites put into orbit here\n\nLithosphere:\nComposition of crust-made mostly of silicon, oxygen, & aluminum\nstructure-crust is divided into lithospheric plates that move due to convection of molten rock in the asthenosphere; there are over a dozen major plates; movement of plates cause earthquakes to occur as well as volcanic activity\n\nHydrosphere\nIncludes all the water in the earth's rivers, lakes, streams, air, oceans, groundwater, & living tissues; 98% of water is stored in the oceans; most of earth's freshwater is locked up in glaciers; groundwater is the most abundant source of usable freshwater\nmovement of water (water cycle)-water moves in a constant cycle called the water cycle; most of the water that constitutes precipitation comes from the oceans; water is evaporated from oceans, lakes, etc. then rises w/ warm air masses, cools, condenses, becomes clouds, precipitates, then either becomes groundwater, runoff, etc. then makes its way back into the oceans.
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None that we know of. On earth, there is the right mixture of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, and other gases that is conductive to our breathing. Mars has different gas mixture which makes our lungs unable to work properly.
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The Earth is surrounded by atmosphere, which is made up of many greenhouse gases. The Earths temperature\n      depends on the solar constant.\n      The Earths surface absorbs heat from the sun and re-radiates it back out to space with the help of clouds, snow,\n      atmosphere dust and sea surfaces, the rest is absorbed by other gases and aerosols, examples of these is the\n      gases from power stations and volcanoes which can be liquid or dust, some solar radiation does not reach\n      space this remains trapped in the atmosphere by greenhouse gases. \n      The temperature of the Earth has changed and is continuing to do so with the help of human activity in rising \n      Co2 levels, from 1850-1996 Co2 rose from 285 p.p.m to 360 p.p.m a 0.7ºc rise in surface temperature.\n      We know how trees and plants are vital to us as they convert Co2 into oxygen to help us breathe, but industry\n      will continue to cut and burn down forests allowing more Co2 into the air, with this decrease in vegetation this\n      means more Co2 will remain in the atmosphere and with the burning of fossil fuels we are also producing more \n      Co2, causing the Earths temperature to warm up.\n      Clouds also play a role in the surface temperature; they absorb radiation this increasing the amount of infrared\n      radiation that is emitted by the atmosphere depending on their altitude and thickness, a cloud is formed when\n      water vapor condenses.
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The gas is mostly sulphur dioxide not carbon dioxide. Check out the dust question the earth is being compressed more and more each day as extra terrestrial dust falls on it. Under the crust this pressure and the action of the sun and moons gravitational pull heats the rock until it melts, causing chemical reactions as well as some radioactivity that creates more pressure. As the plates of the earth (pieces of the crust) shift to accomodate these changes, the crust may become thin enough for the internal pressure to burst through it, VOLCANO!