25 Facts About Earth’s Atmosphere That Are Truly Majestic

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Our atmosphere is one of the most protective and important parts of our planet. Responsible for sheltering us from the harsh conditions of outer space, such as solar radiation and space debris, the atmosphere is a complex structure. Though we may not give it due credit in our daily lives, the world's attention was turned to its layers in 2013 when veteran skydiver Felix Baumgartner took a capsule up to the highest levels of the stratosphere - about 120,000 feet above the Earth's surface - and jumped. His record-shattering free fall spawned a new wave of interest in space travel and atmospheric science (and a bit of notoriety for his sponsor, too).
In this list, we highlight facts about our atmosphere which aren't well-known but should be for how important they are to our understanding of the world around us. We discuss how the ozone layer was formed; how deserts form in the middle latitudes; how the northern and southern lights brighten the sky with their glow; and what causes the white streaks sometimes left by planes shooting through our atmosphere. Be the smartest person at your next party with these 25 Facts About The Earth's Atmosphere That Are Truly Majestic.
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Believe it or not, the sky is actually purple. As light enters the atmosphere, air and water particles absorb and reemit the light, scattering it on its way to our eyes. Since scattering prefers shorter wavelengths, the most commonly scattered color is actually violet. We think we see a blue sky rather than a purple one because our eyes are more sensitive to the color blue.
As you likely learned in science class, our atmosphere is made of about 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and miniscule percentages of argon, carbon dioxide, and other gases. What you might not have learned is that our atmosphere is the only one we have discovered (besides a magnificent find on Comet 67P) which has free oxygen. Since oxygen is a highly reactive gas, it often binds with other chemicals in space. Its pure form on Earth makes the planet habitable and leads our search for life on other planets.
Most people will probably get this question wrong: is there more water in the clouds or in a clear sky? Though we'd think clouds are the main depository since they drop water, most of the water in our atmosphere is invisible water vapor. For this reason, more sweat lingers on our bodies when the water vapor in the air, known as humidity, is higher.
Some global warming skeptics argue it's not a real phenomenon because their city has been getting colder. In fact, Earth's global climate is the combination of a wide variety of regional climates. So even though some areas are warming while others are cooling, on the whole, the average global climate is rapidly warming.
Ever wonder what causes the white streak seen after some planes shoot through the sky? These white trails, known as contrails or condensation trails, form when the hot, humid exhaust from an engine mixes with the colder outside air. Water vapor from the exhaust freezes and becomes visible, just like your warm breath on a cold day. A thin and rapidly disappearing contrail means the air at those high altitudes is low in humidity, indicating good weather. A thick, persistent contrail signals high humidity and may mean a storm is coming.
Our atmosphere has five primary layers which make life possible. The first, the troposphere, extends from sea level to about 11 miles (17 kms) up at the Equator. Most of our weather happens here due to the mixture of warm air rising and falling to form clouds and wind.
The next layer is the stratosphere, reaching up to around 30 miles (50 kms) above equatorial sea level. Herein lies the ozone layer, which protects us from dangerous ultraviolet rays. Though it is higher than the troposphere, it can actually be warmer due to the energy absorbed from solar rays.
The mesosphere is the middle layer, extending to 52 miles (85 kms) above the planet's surface where temperatures hover around -180°F (-120°C). Most of the meteors which enter our atmosphere burn up in the mesosphere.
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0:31 *The Sky is actually Purple* 0:56 *Our atmosphere's composition* 1:33 *Where is the most water* 1:57 *Overall Global warming* 2:18 *Contrails cause* 2:53 *Primary layers of atmosphere start: Troposphere* 3:13 *Ozone layer* 3:34 *Mesosphere layer* 3:53 *The Ionosphere Layer* 4:10 *The Exosphere: Layers end* 4:43 *The Trade winds* 5:11 *The Stratosphere Layer end...Really this time* 5:30 *Our Atmosphere's life cycle* 5:50 *Too cold without gases* 6:20 *Feces in Hurricane* 6:47 *What made the Ozone layer* 7:14 *What is the Ionosphere* 7:30 *Acid rain creation* 7:52 *Heated pressure* 8:16 *Lightning's power* 8:37 *The origins of wind* 9:05 *The Aurora lights* 9:28 *Fastest skydiver record* 9:52 *Sunsets beauty* 10:07 *Microbes survivalist*

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Omg soo true!! Amen 🙏 to that!

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Sorry to disappoint you, but there is no God.

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Yes, what science always do to me is believe that we were not even dust before Gods might.

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My take is like. So much contradicts the Bible and other religions have a lot of the same exact ideas just differently worded. So like 99% of stuff makes me think no god but then the there’s 1% that makes my brain think how was any of this possible

[@MercyS26]

Using Train lyrics as the opening quote - Best opening ever!

[@Boggled]

Very informative video! The Earth was formed somewhere around 4.54 billion years ago and is currently the only known planet to support life - and lots of it.

[@missnoname9704]

#25 Prince knew something we didn't. Purple rain. Purple rain......

[@juny6073]

I thought the title was going to be, "25 Facts About Earth’s Atmosphere That Are Truly Breathtaking" and be filled with air puns...

[@Jason-ng1xt]

You learn something new about this world everyday

[@list25]

You sure do!

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this is Why im Subscribe to List25 -i learn new things everyday -Thanks list25 ....especially for the puns

[@list25]

You're welcome. And as for the puns, I'm so happy you find them...PUNderful. ~Mike

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hahahha xDD i know its Realy Realy PUNny when you do that

[@Cayoten]

Thank you so much for this video!!!! I am using your information for my science project, and you answered all of my questions with PERFECT answers. THANKS SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@bradchapman2626]

5:20 Correction: Atmospheric pressure is greater at the bottom because it is supporting the weight of the atmosphere above. Gravity is not much less at 50 or 100 miles altitude than it is at ground level.

[@kevinberube5330]

Love the no mans sky styled music playing in the background

[@Nek0Nerd0]

All the more motivation for me to focus on this field. Nice pick, List25.

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So you could say hurricane Carl was a shit storm

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LOL!

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LOL!!!

[@johncroissant]

NOPE.avi

[@nicoooo]

just wait a year.

[@Arthiem]

"25 Facts About Earth’s Atmosphere That Are Truly Majestic" should have called it "25 Facts About Earth’s Atmosphere That Are Breathtaking"

[@hiruharii]

Hahahahaha... I see...

[@twisterlord665]

Don't get it.

[@Arthiem]

mike in know for bad puns. you breathe the atmosphere, breathtaking is another word for stunning, something that is majestic is stunning. bad pun that should not have been explained.

[@MrThebudgrower]

Arthiem that's what you said about my balls.

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MrThebudgrower that are hard to find

[@Xenro66]

10:05 Incorrect. Rainbows aren't formed from scattered light from airborne particles, they're formed from the refraction of white light when the light passes through water droplets at the correct angle.

[@lemondude6174]

I watched it and I think he's referring to scattered light as refracted light, and airborne particles as water droplets.

[@patrickstefanek3842]

Dude anyone else see this? The guy in the video could be full of shit and it sounds like it based of this rainbow

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XRMissie yeah

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i seriously live waking up to your vids mike and gang. thank!

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We LIVE you too. :D ~Mike

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List25 I love your videos, they're so informative😁

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And we love you Elijah! ~Mike

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list25 thanks lol. It's cool how you actually respond to people.

[@johndeeregreen4592]

Sorry, there are still plenty of radio waves being refracted (not reflected) by the ionosphere. There are over 2.5 million HAM radio operators on the planet that still rely on the ionosphere for day-to-day communications and even emergencies. Not to mention, the many shortwave radio stations that are still in operation. --HAM radio station NV6R

[@carterdietlin8772]

My teacher made my class watch this video for a school assignment and it was like torture

[@TowerGoat]

You guys are awesome keep up the good work

[@deebreezy246]

I have one question, does the atmosphere rotate as the earth rotates or does it stay still?

[@blesslie323]

The earth is motionless

[@BackstrokeKingTheThird]

"Jets can fly faster when less restricted by gravity" I actually didn't know that.

[@suthinscientist9801]

Though the difference in gravity between the ground and the stratosphere is minimal.

[@norma8686]

Thank you for filling my afternoons with new interesting things :)

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I really enjoy these videos :)

[@carolmason9386]

You lost me explaining Chemtrails as contrails

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Loving the videos Mike keep up the Amazing work

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The sky is p..p..p..p..PURPLE!!!!!! Yay!

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The moon is in earths atmosphere

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how about "top 25 facts about dust" I want to know more about it :)

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And haboobs in Arizona!

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Me too 😖.

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beautiful thumbnail pic of our home

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Hold up! Prince was right after all!? "Sky is so purple that people are running everywhere". 😳

[@jimmbbo]

Lower gravity is NOT a reason why jets fly higher... the difference in airplane weight at the surface and at 50000 ft is indistinguishable in the real world. Thinner air, less drag and better engine efficiency are the reasons.

[@tracewallace23]

anyone have issue with 20 troposphere 11 miles thick ,and 14 most jets fly above the troposphere? (57k feet). most military jets I suppose🤔

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That´s a really good video. Good job folks. :-)

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Great Video!

[@list25]

Thank you so much. ~Mike

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I can bairly inhale this breathe of knowledge

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im watching this in class rn

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"25 Facts about Earth's atmosphere that are truly breath-taking." Missed a great opportunity there.

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...you are correct...(sadness)

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This video is great! I will have to watch it again.

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❤ Best intro ever ❤

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Very interesting knowledge

[@Zogixaas09]

All knowledge is useless, unless you know what to do with it.

[@Ayce1955]

Not really, when you consider how many people who have rarely looked up think the clouds are "weird". There are several series on YT that exploit that lack of information.

[@GabeLucario]

9:43 It's Baumgartner 😂😂😂😂

[@kademaya2994]

We are so spoiled with all that earth has, but still we are ruining it

[@musicalgirl4543]

I love purple sky. I hope that fact is true

[@Knowledge1above2all]

Great song

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Awesome keep it up!

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Great facts

[@CatastrophicMarauder]

Ah drops of Jupiter, great song I haven't heard in a while. I like your choice in song lol

[@fidius01]

the overall temperature is quickly rising? at a rate of 1degree per century? for which solar activity is a major contributor?

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Show total work done by atmospheric pressure according to PV = nRT

[@venrosonitas]

For number 3, you could say he was falling around at the speed of sound xD

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I always read the comments for incite, and information on the other hand.

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21 isn't true. Chemtrails, not contrails. I've seen both at the same time. So that doesn't always have to do with humidity.

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cool video

[@garycarpenter6433]

If we're warming up how come is the Arctic melting or I should say we're cooling down

[@jsbrads1]

Your radio/ionosphere graphic was misplaced

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Wow im early ... I accidentally clicked ln this video while i was sleeping 😂😂

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still.. if we started from nothing how did we figure everything out?

[@tracewallace23]

3 fell that's a good word for it. it looked like he wasn't even conscious for a good part of the FALL

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9:30 , so that was a real video? wow!!!

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Dude I want to see you in the video , for me is better it's like you are talking to me , nice video btw greetings .

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I'm still in them, Mon, Wed, Fri. However some people prefer the old narration-only style, which is why we do these still on Tues and Thurs. ~Mike

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How much has the earth warmed up in that last 100 years? Unfortunately it hasn't changed. Which sucks, cuz I hate snow

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who else is only here for class and not actually from curiosity altho i am interested in the video

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Turns out a 200,000 lb airliner will be 600 lbs lighter at 30,000 ft. Significant considering airlines will go to pretzels from peanuts to save weight.

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Keep the really cool facts coming...but please don't quote a Train song ever again :)

[@lisaquinlan1292]

i love that Train song... You should have sang it though. Can you carry a tune? Can Tristan? Are either of you color blind? I'm just curious....i went off walking on a tangent....

[@list25]

I enjoy singing but I will never ever claim to be good. I haven't heard Tristan try to sing. I didn't sing it because I wanted to keep it in quote format. I thought about it though. As for being colorblind, neither Tristan nor I are, but my father was. Don't worry about tangents. Ask Tristan or Juan, I go off on MANY MANY tangents. ~Mike

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Very nicely done video! #25: at first I thought that one picture was the famous Win XP background. What about jet streams? I really wanted to learn about that.

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This is what we have been fooled about at School!

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Hi, I just shared your video and someone asked me for a reference! Could you put more references or links to back up your list? It would be greatly appreciated :).

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Thank you for sharing! As for the references, they are found on the physical list (follow the link in the description). :)

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Uh oh... Why did they want sources?

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Yikes! You said our satellites and our space station are parked! That was woefully inaccurate. Please edit the video to reflect that, that they are in fact NOT parked. They are actually moving, moving VERY fast, they are orbiting our planet many times a day, the ISS itself orbits the planet once every 92 minutes, at 17,150 miles per hour, or 5 miles per second. Please fix this part of your video as it is an error and deserves fixing. You are trying to educate people, make it right, please.

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COOL

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who leaves a thumbs down on this video..... tsk tsk.

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me, because global warming is fake.

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+Glowstick 99%of scientist would disagree

[@michealroth120800]

Sunlight Is A Lot Of Colors Combined But Really Yellowish But Not Only Yellow And Blue.

they were chem trails not con trails!

[@duststorm9548]

I always request a seat behind the wing so I can watch the trails fly of the wing tips. Crazy how the atmosphere does that, but cool to see.

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Illuminati confirmed.

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+Przemnik lol I wish I could be ilumonti. Mostly for the money and women, but I think that would distract me too much from world domination. hmm... no wonder it's taking them so long...

1 of me or a chem trail pic? thres 1 that forms a pentagram i mean there rubbin in our faces look into it all and youl quickly see actual evidence!

[@duststorm9548]

+Jay Mee you can sit in a plane seat and see the condensation trails form. no chemicals needed. it's condesation.

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comments are cancerous as usual on any channel talking about science

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nice

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That thumbnail 😮

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All of the stuff in this video helped me finish one and 3/4 of my essay

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so thx

[@Galahad993]

The atmosphere that is disappearing

[@MetaKnight964]

No it's not

[@Gene601]

@@MetaKnight964 Earth's atmosphere leaks around 90 tons of gas into space every day. Luckily we have a shit ton of atmosphere to work with.

[@chefdean7257]

What was odd sentence structure at beginning ?

[@thetruedarksoul168]

The first plane on 14 is a telescope

[@TitanTubs]

if only you made this a few months ago, 7th grade HW, "Properties of the Atmosphere"

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Thumbnail picture?

[@slinkerdeer]

16-20 are the same fucking thing! Edit: meaning put them into one "number" on the list for fuck sake!

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Hey Mike, I need more puns

[@FocusBeDrifting]

I found thia video difficult to understand and follow idk bout you guys

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Dose earth's atmosphere can regene

[@14llison]

I love Train

[@bubblesbubbles7540]

The poem at the beginning irritated the fuck out my soul.

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Any grade 7 here because of their module?

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#22 +Suspicious0bservers would say the globe has dominated more global cold records than heat records. we are headed towards a mini ice age similar to the Maunder minimum experienced in the 1600s

[@armouredchallenger4036]

But records are just that, records. It's exacly what is said under point 22, they don't matter, the average temperature does.

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And what happened to the rest of the world while England and the the rest of the 30 degreers it was heating up and the overall temperature of the planet heated that event did not cover the entire planet it was localized

[@justinakers3196]

So...? Why’d you quote Train? I mean I know the song is slightly relevant but uh, I kinda wish you hadn’t done that.

[@brankodimitrijevic382]

How does Earth keep its atmosphere circling the sun. Does the movement affect it like comets (comets have tails...) PS: I'm not a flat earth theorist

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Extraterrestrial technology my friend

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I'm early let me think of a joke Dead babies.....

[@paulg.9596]

What's red, white, and goes 200 mph? A British baby in a blender

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+Paul “Turtles” G. What small and in my pants? My car keys! And my penis.

[@mugen050]

In which part of the atmosphere does a sharknado generate?

[@judybohl7789]

Hmmmm....fire needs oxygen to burn I've heard. If that's so, how are such big fires happening in countries with so much toxic waste in air?

[@kaipo6632]

Anyone also here from Geography class?

[@johnnypocketrocket]

I'd have to change my name if I was called Felix Bumgardener...