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live in an environment, such as Mercury's, lacking an

atmosphere.

There is an atmosphere on the planet Venus.

Because the pressure on Venus is ninety times greater
than the pressure of Earth's atmosphere, it does not

provide suitable conditions for human life. From this

information, we understand that no life can exist on

the planet Venus since under its great pressure all liv-

ing things would be crushed.

Let us go over the points we made earlier: The

atmosphere is one of the essentials for life on Earth.

The atmosphere has many functions, some of which
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have been briefly explained above. As you will remem-
ber, one of these is the importance of the gases that

make up the atmosphere for human life. If the atmos-

phere did not exist, living things could not breathe,

and thus there would be no life on Earth.

Another function of the atmosphere is to protect

our Earth against threats from outer space, such as

meteors. The atmosphere prevents meteors from

falling on Earth and causing harm.

The atmosphere also blocks harmful radiation
coming from space. Thanks to the atmosphere, only 7

percent of this harmful radiation reaches Earth. Here is