How much does the atmosphere weigh?

We all know how much we weight or how much an animal weight, or how much an object weight. But have you ever wondered about the weight of our Atmosphere? Let's explore!

Before we start talking about its weight, lets first know about how it was created, in a brief. The surface was molten. As Earth cooled, an atmosphere formed mainly from gases spewed from volcanoes. It included hydrogen sulfide, methane, and ten to 200 times as much carbon dioxide as today's atmosphere. After about half a billion years, Earth's surface cooled and solidified enough for water to collect on it.

You may not realize it, but air has weight. Anything with mass has weight, and we know that air has mass, because we can feel it moving around when the wind blows. The air above us forms a blanket that we call the atmosphere. Composed of nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and other gases, it surrounds the Earth, and extends almost a thousand kilometers above the Earth's surface. So there is a thousand-kilometer high column of air above our heads, and the column exerts a pressure known as the atmospheric pressure.

We don't get crushed by this pressure because our bodies have an internal pressure, which counters that of the atmospheric pressure, and, in the process, balances it out. This internal pressure is essential for our survival, because it has been calculated that the air in the atmosphere weighs around 5,700,000,000,000,000 tonnes! It has also been calculated that the atmosphere
exerts a pressure of about 6.6 kgs per square inch at sea level.

Hence, at sea level, we carry about 6.6 kilogrammes of weight on every inch of our body. Amazing, isn't it? 

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