AST101H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Solar Wind, Photon, Thermosphere
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Changes in reflectivity: an increase in a planets reflectivty means a decrease in the amount of sunlight that it absorbs and vice versa. Mercury, venus, earth, earths moon, mars the moon and mercury have so little atmosphere that is why they call it airless worlds. Atomsheric basic have no wind, or weather venus is completely thick atmosphere. Mars has a co2 atmoshpwere but thin air only earth is just right. How does the greenhouse effect warm a planet? why do atmosphereic properties vary. How does a planet gain or lose atmospheric gases.