What planet can u breathe on?

Answer 3: To our knowledge, the Earth is the only planet with an atmosphere of the right density and composition to make life possible. Other planets in the Solar System have atmospheres but they are too thick, hot, and acidic like on Venus or too thin and cold like on Mars.
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Can you breathe on Saturn?

Second, like the rest of the planet, the atmosphere on Saturn consists of roughly 75% hydrogen and 25% helium, which means there is little to no oxygen…which means there will be little to no breathing.
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What planet can we live on?

Among the stunning variety of worlds in our solar system, only Earth is known to host life.
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Could a person breathe on Mars?

If you tried to breathe on the surface of Mars without a spacesuit supplying your oxygen – bad idea – you would die in an instant. You would suffocate, and because of the low atmospheric pressure, your blood would boil, both at about the same time.
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Is there a planet with breathable air?

The Perseverance rover converted carbon dioxide into oxygen on Mars, marking the first time breathable air has been made on another planet, NASA announced Wednesday. A toaster-sized instrument called MOXIE – short for Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment – made the feat possible.
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Can you breathe on Venus?

The atmosphere of Venus is very hot and thick. You would not survive a visit to the surface of the planet - you couldn't breathe the air, you would be crushed by the enormous weight of the atmosphere, and you would burn up in surface temperatures high enough to melt lead.
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How long could you breathe on Mars?

If a person were to breathe on Mars without a spacesuit, they would pass out within 30 seconds, and they would die within a minute or two. First, their lungs would fill once, but the difference in pressure between the human lungs and the Martian air would make it very difficult for them to exhale.
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Can you breathe on Uranus?

Simply put, there is no free oxygen on the planet Uranus.
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Can you breathe on Pluto?

As such, there is simply no way life could survive on the surface of Pluto. Between the extreme cold, low atmospheric pressure, and constant changes in the atmosphere, no known organism could survive.
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Can you breathe on Jupiter?

Jupiter's environment is probably not conducive to life as we know it. The temperatures, pressures, and materials that characterize this planet are most likely too extreme and volatile for organisms to adapt to.
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Can we live on Uranus?

Uranus' environment is not conducive to life as we know it. The temperatures, pressures, and materials that characterize this planet are most likely too extreme and volatile for organisms to adapt to.
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Can you breathe on Mercury?

Mercury has a solid, cratered surface, much like the Earth's moon. Can't Breathe It - Mercury's thin atmosphere, or exosphere, is composed mostly of oxygen (O2), sodium (Na), hydrogen (H2), helium (He), and potassium (K).
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What planet rains diamonds?

Deep within Neptune and Uranus, it rains diamonds—or so astronomers and physicists have suspected for nearly 40 years. The outer planets of our Solar System are hard to study, however. Only a single space mission, Voyager 2, has flown by to reveal some of their secrets, so diamond rain has remained only a hypothesis.
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Can we breathe on Neptune?

Similar to most planets, Neptune is a volatile world with no solid surfaces. Besides, the desolate planet is no place for human life.
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Can we live on Jupiter?

A: Jupiter is a gas giant, which means it probably does not have a solid surface, and the gas it is made up of would be toxic for us. It is also very far from the sun (sunlight can take over an hour to get there) which means that is it very cold.
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Can you stand on Uranus?

You can't stand on Uranus

Gross. If we ever manage to travel to the gas planets, you might be in for a bit of a shock when you step off the spaceship. That's because Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune don't have solid surfaces - they have a rocky core, but are mainly big balls of hydrogen and helium.
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Can you live on Mercury?

Tough Place for Life. It is unlikely that life as we know it could survive on Mercury due to solar radiation, and extreme temperatures.
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Can you live on Venus?

The temperature on the surface of Venus is exceptionally hot, and no life could survive there. But it is thought the planet was once cooler and wetter, with conditions that may have allowed life to start more easily. Scientists found the phosphine gas in the acidic clouds floating above the planet.
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Can humans live on Titan?

Robert Zubrin has pointed out that Titan possesses an abundance of all the elements necessary to support life, saying "In certain ways, Titan is the most hospitable extraterrestrial world within our solar system for human colonization." The atmosphere contains plentiful nitrogen and methane.
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Can you live on Saturn?

Saturn's environment is not conducive to life as we know it. The temperatures, pressures, and materials that characterize this planet are most likely too extreme and volatile for organisms to adapt to.
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Can you live on Mars?

Survivability. Plants and animals cannot survive the ambient conditions on the surface of Mars.
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Is there life on Saturn?

Unfortunately, no. Saturn can't support life as we know it because Saturn is a gas giant planet. It has no solid surface because it is composed of gases, mostly hydrogen and helium. The further into the atmosphere, the denser it gets, and the pressure squeezes the gas into a liquid.
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Can you breathe on moon?

On the moon, there's no air to breathe, no breezes to make the flags planted there by the Apollo astronauts flutter. However, there is a very, very thin layer of gases on the lunar surface that can almost be called an atmosphere.
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How long would I survive on Jupiter?

Jupiter: Being a gaseous planet, Jupiter would make for a uniquely uncomfortable life. On — or in? — this enormous planet, "you would descend forever into the gaseous atmosphere until you're crushed by the pressure of the planet's layers."
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Can humans live in Moon?

Unlike the Apollo astronauts, lunar settlers wouldn't be able to carry all their rations and resources on their rocket. It would be too heavy. Instead, they would have to make much of what they would need to survive out of the extra-terrestrial resources to hand. Unfortunately, these resources are pretty barren.
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