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Explain why the moon has no atmosphere?

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Basically the reason why the moon hasn't got a atmosphere its because there are no active/live volcanoes at all which means its a dead lump of rock which can't support any living things. Its a chunk of rock meteorites hit the moon all the time that it would destroy its atmosphere (if it had one) any ways. also to hold and atmosphere is would need Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide and all these types of gases for it to happen.

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An atmosphere is made of gases. The moon does have an atmosphere, but this was only recently discovered because the gas are different and in much smaller amounts than the gasses that make up Earth's atmosphere.

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βˆ™ 12y ago

Because gravity of moon is very weak, hence its escape velocity is also very less, the molecules of gas can easily escape the moon's gravity because their velocity (the velocity of gas molecules depends on the temperature of the gas) is much higher than the escape velocity of moon. Hence moon doesn't have enough gravitational pull to hold an atmosphere.

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βˆ™ 10y ago

The moon has no atmosphere because it doesn't have adequate gravity to hold an atmosphere. In fact the lunar gravity is so weak that the particles from the sun blew whatever atmosphere the moon did have into space.

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βˆ™ 16y ago

One reason the moon has no atmosphere is because it has much less gravity than earth

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βˆ™ 13y ago

Because their small mass makes its gravity too weak to retain much gas around it.

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βˆ™ 11y ago

because they hate each other

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