If the sun is SO hot, why does get colder when you go up and you are getting closer to the sun?
2007-10-22 11:39:34 · 6 answers · asked by LuvNatalie 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Heat on Earth depends not only on the sun, but on the amount of air to hold the heat.
The higher the elevation, the less atmosphere there is to hold that heat and so it is colder.
2007-10-22 11:42:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
Since the Sun is 93 million miles away, expecting it to get warmer as you climb to altitude on Earth is like expecting to notice more heat from the fire when you move closer to it by a hair's breadth from the opposite side of the room.
It gets colder because the air gets thinner.
2007-10-23 04:11:46 · answer #2 · answered by Jason T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A number of reasons:
(1) The thinner atmosphere conducts less heat.
(2) The majority of the heat we feel is not directly from the Sun, rather it is the heat from the Earth after the Sun has warmed it (this is why it doesn't drop to absolute zero every night). Get further from the ground and less heat radiates.
2007-10-22 20:58:13 · answer #3 · answered by Likini Solutions 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because what you feel is the temperature of the atmosphere, not the temperature of the sun. And the atmosphere gets colder because there is less of a greenhouse effect the less air you have above you.
2007-10-22 18:45:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Less atmosphere at higher altitudes, so less of a greenhouse effect, so it's colder.
2007-10-22 18:43:16 · answer #5 · answered by Ski_grl 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
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ATMOSPHERE!!!!NO DU
2007-10-22 21:35:39 · answer #6 · answered by i LOVE zjefferson121 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋