darcieodie
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  • 30-03-2017
  • Chemistry
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explain why the outer planets did not lose the lighter gases in their atmospheres?

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jinx2001
jinx2001 jinx2001
  • 30-03-2017
1. ) They have more mass, and thus more gravity to hold on to their atmospheres. 

2. ) They are more distant from the Sun, so the solar winds that have stripped the atmospheres of Mercury and Mars, for example, down to practically nothing, are not as strong.
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