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All the planets are capable of maintaining a gaseous atmosphere, but Mercury and Mars have only very thin atmospheres - to the point that Mercury is usually considered to not have an atmosphere and Mars is considered to barely have an atmosphere.

Earth is still maintaining an atmosphere - for which we should all be grateful (despite gloom and doom predictions from global climate change enthusiasts this is unlikely to change any time soon)

Venus has an extremely thick atmosphere.

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are "gas giants" - which means the atmosphere of each planet occupies the majority of the volume - we think. At the very least they all definitely have considerable atmospheres.

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