Imagine if Earth's atmosphere flipped upside down—things would get wild! 🌎 Normally, warm air stays near the surface, and cooler air layers are above, but if it reversed, the sky would trap cold air near the ground. 🌬️ That means we’d be freezing at sea level while the tops of mountains could be toasty warm. 🏔️ Weather would go haywire—rain patterns would flip, and we might even see snow in the tropics while deserts could flood. 🌧️ Planes would have to deal with unpredictable turbulence as air currents would be completely messed up. ✈️ The world would be unrecognizable, and scientists would be scrambling to figure out how to survive in this topsy-turvy new Earth! Credit: Aerial Superhighway: By NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aerial_Superhighway.ogv Jupiter's Magnetosphere: By NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio, https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4664/ Jetcrosssection: By Original: National Weather Service JetStream, Sleske, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75169357 Animation is created by Bright Side. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music by Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com Check our Bright Side podcast on Spotify and leave a positive review! https://open.spotify.com/show/0hUkPxD34jRLrMrJux4VxV Subscribe to Bright Side: https://goo.gl/rQTJZz ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brightside Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brightside.official TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brightside.official?lang=en Stock materials (photos, footages and other): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me
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00:00One day, you're walking down the street, wearing a mask connected to an oxygen tank.
00:06There are no clouds in the sky.
00:08There have been no clouds anywhere in the world for several months.
00:11You notice a girl who was having trouble breathing.
00:14You let her borrow your mask so that she can breathe.
00:18Then someone screams, take cover!
00:20Now there's a loud whistle, and you see some kind of invisible force tearing trees
00:26out of the ground and pushing away parked cars.
00:29You hide in the nearest house.
00:31A strong icy wind sweeps past.
00:34All the strange changes in this world are caused by the atmosphere that has turned upside
00:39down.
00:40So, to understand what would happen if Earth's atmosphere changed so dramatically, we must
00:46first understand what an atmosphere is.
00:49In simple words, this is a blanket of air covering our planet.
00:53It warms us, protects us, and allows us to breathe.
00:57The atmosphere has five main layers – troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and
01:04exosphere.
01:06The troposphere is the heaviest.
01:08About 80% of the total mass of the atmosphere is here.
01:12Clouds, dust, and water particles fly in this first layer.
01:16It's filled with more oxygen than the other layers and exerts the strongest atmospheric
01:21pressure on us.
01:23The fact is that all the air around us has weight.
01:26At ground level, it's roughly 15 pounds per square inch.
01:30It envelops all material objects, but we don't feel 15 pounds per square inch, or psi, because
01:37our internal pressure is equal to that.
01:40The air is dispersed in the atmosphere and on the ground.
01:44The higher we go, the lower the atmospheric pressure and oxygen levels are.
01:49For example, climbers, while ascending a high mountain, use oxygen tanks to help their bodies
01:54adapt to the changes in the air.
01:57There's artificial pressure inside airplanes to make people feel comfortable during takeoff,
02:02landing, and the entire flight.
02:04So, the most saturated and, at the same time, the heaviest air is in the first layer.
02:11But in an inverted atmosphere, it would be the farthest one from us.
02:16The next layer is the stratosphere, and it performs the function of a shield.
02:20The stratosphere consists of ozone, which absorbs most of the solar radiation and prevents
02:26it from reaching the ground.
02:28In simple words, the Sun's rays are filtered through the stratosphere.
02:32They lose their harmful properties, and our planet receives safe heat.
02:37Then the mesosphere comes.
02:39You can experience the lowest temperatures in the world in this layer.
02:43Atmospheric pressure is low here, but the air is dense enough to burn meteorites passing
02:48through the mesosphere.
02:50The thermosphere follows the mesosphere.
02:53It takes a hot blow from the Sun's rays.
02:56The temperature here is about 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit, almost one and a half times higher
03:01than in a volcano.
03:04And the final layer is the exosphere.
03:06This is the last frontier of our atmosphere before open space begins.
03:11The pressure here is so weak that gas molecules escape and head toward faraway stars.
03:18So here's how everything works in an ordinary atmosphere.
03:21The Sun's rays shine on the exosphere, where almost nothing happens.
03:26Then they heat the thermosphere and pass through the cold mesosphere.
03:31Sunlight cools down while filtering through the ozone layer in the stratosphere.
03:36After that, its rays pass through the heaviest and densest layer of the troposphere and reaches
03:41the ground.
03:43And now, let's see how all this would work in an inverted atmosphere.
03:47The troposphere, with all the clouds, water, and oxygen, would rise to the top.
03:53The Sun's rays would burn all the moisture.
03:56Clouds would disappear from the sky.
03:58Then the Sun's rays would cool slightly while passing through the ozone layer.
04:03The stratosphere would absorb all the radiation.
04:06Then the rays would pass through the cold mesosphere and quickly reach the surface of
04:10our planet.
04:12The thermosphere and exosphere would have almost no effect on the beams.
04:18If our planet had an inverted atmosphere, a massive drought would begin.
04:23All the rain clouds would get dispersed in the top layers of the atmosphere.
04:27And all the moisture on Earth would start to evaporate and accumulate in the exosphere
04:32and thermosphere.
04:33Thus, we would get a new troposphere.
04:36It would be filled with gases, water particles, and dust.
04:40The previous troposphere, which would now be at the very top, would lose its weight
04:45and turn into an exosphere.
04:47But what would happen to oxygen at this moment?
04:50The higher we go, the lower the pressure and the less oxygen.
04:54But in the inverted atmosphere, there would be less oxygen and less pressure closest to
04:59the surface of the Earth.
05:01At first, people would feel as if they were on Mount Everest.
05:05Many would lose consciousness or experience severe dizziness.
05:09Others would have bad migraines and feel unwell because of dilated blood vessels.
05:15But what would happen to people who spent a lot of time climbing high mountains?
05:19They would adapt more easily.
05:21And the rest would have to do the same in the inverted atmosphere.
05:26And when people felt comfortable in such conditions, they would begin to enjoy the benefits.
05:31We would feel less air resistance.
05:34It would be like a vacuum in space.
05:36Cars would drive faster and use less gasoline.
05:40People would create trains moving at the speed of sound.
05:43While running, we would be less tired.
05:46But at the same time, planes would fly much more slowly since they would have to go through
05:51thick layers of air.
05:52We wouldn't have rain for long periods of time, and it would always be sunny.
05:58Instead of bad weather, we would face jet streams.
06:01Now these powerful icy winds circulate in the upper layers of the atmosphere.
06:06They blow over the top of Mount Everest and pose a serious danger to climbers.
06:11When the sun's rays heat the air, it rises and encounters cold winds.
06:16They push warm air even higher, where it turns into jet streams.
06:21These winds are howling at 70 miles per hour.
06:24They can easily rip out a tree or tear off some roofs.
06:27We would have to build sturdy houses and shelters to survive this calamity.
06:32In the end, the surface of Earth would warm up and push jet streams up.
06:37In other words, even if the atmosphere turned upside down, everything would return to its
06:43place sooner or later.
06:45Perhaps this would happen in a couple of hundred years, or millions of years.
06:49In any case, the laws of physics and nature would return our planet to its former state.
06:55But all living creatures may not live long enough to see it.
07:00But what if the planet's atmosphere was constantly flipping over?
07:04This is unlikely to happen on Earth, but one space object in the solar system has an inverted
07:10atmosphere.
07:11All the solid parts in it evaporate and rise, and the atmosphere sinks and becomes denser.
07:17Thus, the ground and the sky on this space body keep switching up.
07:22This strange celestial object is Pluto, that used to be a planet.
07:27The average distance between Pluto and the Sun is about 3.7 billion miles.
07:33It also has an elliptical or oval-shaped orbit, which is also tilted away from the orbits
07:38of the other planets.
07:40When Pluto comes closer to the Sun, it receives a bit of heat.
07:44And this heat is enough to turn the ice on Pluto's surface into gas.
07:49The higher this gas rises, the warmer it becomes.
07:53This is quite strange because everything happens the other way around on Earth.
07:57The higher the air, the colder it is.
08:00Now imagine a world that has no solid surface, but only an atmosphere.
08:06This is Jupiter, the largest planet in our system that consists of gases.
08:1190% is hydrogen, and the remaining 10% mostly consists of helium.
08:17Jupiter keeps all these gases inside itself thanks to its powerful gravitation.
08:23The closer to the center, the greater their concentration.
08:26If a huge spaceship tried to land on Jupiter's surface, it would take a long time to reach
08:31the planet's core.
08:33But at the same time, it would be impossible to get to the center since the weight of the
08:38surrounding gases would crush any material object.
08:42Saturn has a similar structure.
08:45The gravity of its gases is so strong that it makes the rings consisting of pieces of
08:49comets and asteroids spin around the planet.
08:53This atmospheric blanket of air on our planet is ideal for all living creatures.
08:59For millions of years, evolution has been creating organisms that can adapt to the conditions
09:04of the atmosphere.
09:05Hey, good thing, huh?
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