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What causes a spaceship to get red-hot when reentering earth's atmosphere?
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∙ 14y ago
The heat generated by friction due to 'rubbing' against the air at re-entry speed. This is the same effect that causes a stone or a grain of sand to burn when it enters the atmosphere and become visible as a 'shooting star'.
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How spaceships get into space?
You use a spaceship and break through the earths atmosphere
What causes the pressure of the atmosphere?
Atmospheric pressure is caused by the force of the air above the earths surface. It is measured by the point in which the air meets the atmosphere.
What causes a meteor to burn?
gases combined with the speed, plus the passing through earths atmosphere. Or to answer in a word........friction!
How did the Apollo mission 1 get its name?
Apollo is the greek god of the sun. He drove a sun chariot above the earths atmosphere that the greeks associate with the sun, so it would be appropiate to name it Apollo as the spaceship went outside the atmosphere to the moon, as the greeks believed apollo did with the sun
Earths position in the atmosphere?
Earth isn't in the atmosphere - the atmosphere is part of Earth.
What causes a spaceship to get hot when reentering earths atmosphere?
The heat generated by friction due to 'rubbing' against the air at re-entry speed. This is the same effect that causes a stone or a grain of sand to burn when it enters the atmosphere and become visible as a 'shooting star'.
What causes a spaceship to get red hot when re entering earths atmosphere?
Cats eat bats on mats
How spaceships get into space?
You use a spaceship and break through the earths atmosphere
What can go wrong when a spaceship enters earths atmosphere?
Burn up
What is the difference between a plane and spacecraft?
An aircraft flies in the Earths atmosphere, whereas a spaceship flies above the atmosphere.
What causes all of the changes that take place in earths atmosphere?
what causes all of the changes that take place in earths atmosphere is the tilt of the earths axis
What causes catastrophic events to occur?
The climate of the earth and the earths atmosphere
What part of the earths atmosphere absorbs the radiation that causes skin cancer?
green house effect
Why is Carbon-Oxygen2 important for the earths atmosphere?
It is not, because the greenhouse affect causes global warming.
What causes meteors to enter earths atmosphere?
Gravity. And the meteor is on a path that intersects the orbit of the Earth.
What causes the pressure of the atmosphere?
Atmospheric pressure is caused by the force of the air above the earths surface. It is measured by the point in which the air meets the atmosphere.
What causes a meteor to burn?
gases combined with the speed, plus the passing through earths atmosphere. Or to answer in a word........friction!
