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What is the role of gravity in maintaining the atmospheric layer around Earth?

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Answer: It absorbs harmful ultraviolet radiation from the sun, helps keep Earth's surface warm via the greenhouse effect, and reduces temperature extremes between day and night. ... So, thanks to gravity, although some of Earth's atmosphere is escaping to space, most is staying here.

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Earth's gravity is strong enough to hold onto its atmosphere and keep it from drifting into space.

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