Our planet is surrounded by a wispy-thin layer of gas that keeps us warm and allows weather to happen and basically makes all of life on Earth possible. Except... that precious atmosphere of ours is actually leaking, every second, into outer space

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REFERENCES

Atmospheric escape on Earth: https://faculty.washington.edu/dcatling/Catling2009_SciAm.pdf