Did You Know that the Earth Loses Several Hundred Tons of Atmosphere to Space Every Day?

By Evan Gough December 18, 2018
Did You Know that the Earth Loses Several Hundred Tons of Atmosphere to Space Every Day?

“We had such an amazing experience building these very complex and capable payloads..." - Doug Rowland, principal investigator, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

Sources:

  • Press Release: Toward Mapping the Atmosphere’s Escape from Earth

  • Earth Observatory Notes from the Field: Ambushing the Aurora

  • DSCOVR: Deep Space Climate Observatory

  • Cornell University Ask and Astronomer: How many meteorites hit Earth each year?

    • Evan Gough

    Evan Gough

    Evan Gough is a science-loving guy with no formal education who loves Earth, forests, hiking, and heavy music. He's guided by Carl Sagan's quote: "Understanding is a kind of ecstasy."