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What made Earth's atmosphere? Can it make more atmospheres?
Question Date: 2015-05-15
Answer 1:

I don't think anybody knows. Earth's atmosphere is mostly nitrogen, and nitrogen is a rare gas or ice in other objects in the solar system. It is possible that there was some class of object in the solar system that we are unaware of that made Earth's atmosphere.



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