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Why can atmospheric re-entry heat up the air into plasma?
The adiabatic processes of re-entering earth from a spaceship, creates intense heat. Heat in the range of 1700-2000 degrees Celsius.
I've read the the temperature in the air molecules generate a ...
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How is it that the Earth's atmosphere is not “blown away”?
The Earth moves at a high rate of speed around the Sun, and the solar system is moving quickly around the Milky Way. How is it that the Earth's atmosphere is not “blown away”?
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