• Question: Without gravity, would it be hard to breath ?

    Asked by anon-245768 to Sam, Samantha, Nicol, Lori-Ann, Liam, David on 10 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Lori-Ann Foley

      Lori-Ann Foley answered on 10 Mar 2020:

      Gravity usually doesn’t have much effect on breathing. So the astronauts in the space station can float in low gravity but the air is still around them inside the station and they can breath it OK. Gravity helps hold the air near the Earth, so there is less air the higher you go but as long as it is there, you can still breath it.

    • Photo: Samantha Faircloth

      Samantha Faircloth answered on 10 Mar 2020:

      Hello Samira, that’s a great question. There is certainly less ‘air’ in low gravity areas. We are lucky on Earth to have an atmosphere that contains air that we can breath and remains in place because of Earth’s gravitational attraction! When you climb a very high mountain on Earth (like the Himalayas) the air gets a lot thinner due to lower pressures. Without gravity, we would eventually lose our atmosphere. This is what happened to the Moon! 🙂

    • Photo: David Sobral

      David Sobral answered on 10 Mar 2020:

      Certainly different, but as long as there’s oxygen it won’t be that hard.

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