Can a helium balloon float into outer space?
from when u let it go off the ground.
Answers:
Fraid not.
As the air gets thinner higher up, it gets lighter. The balloon will reach a point where it weighs the same as the air it displaces and in theory will hover. Wind and other air currents will prevent it staying still tough. Size of your balloon will dictate how high it 'hovers'.
A helium filled balloon can float very high up into the atmosphere, however, it cannot float up into outer space. The air in Earth's atmosphere gets thinner the higher up you go. The balloon can only rise up until the atmosphere surrounding it has the same weight as the helium in the balloon. This happens at about a height of 20 miles (32 kilometers) above Earth's surface. So, this is as far as a helium balloon can rise. Outer space starts somewhere around 600 miles (960 kilometers) above Earth's surface.
probably not - taking into accout clearing the atmosphere which tends to burn things up.
I guess it depends on quantity of helium, how big the balloon is, what the balloon is made of, and ultimately how long someone wants to stand underneath it to make sure it actually reaches outer space.
No, it will find a height where the density of the atmosphere is the same as the balloon. That will be determined by the volume of the balloon and the weight of the balloon material combined.
sure, coz everything just floats in space!!!!!
No.
The helium balloon floats because the helium inside the balloon is less dense than the air around it.
Once the helium balloon floats up, the helium in the balloon will expand due to decreasing atmospheric pressure on the balloon, and the balloon will explode.
Even if the balloon has skin that is very stretchable, the balloon will reach a point in the atmosphere where the density of the air is equal to that the helium in the balloon, and so with no difference in pressure, there is no upthrust on the balloon and the balloon will no longer float upwards.
it will float until it reaches a place where is thickness of air is low and it will blow in the next atmosphere zone
If a helium balloon is lighter than the air it is replacing, it will rise.
If it is the same weight, it will float / hover
In space, the weight of air in one cubic meter is practically 0, so a helium balloon could float in space if it weighed 0
in other words it can't go that high, helium weighs more than nothing.
Yes. There will be no gravity working on it.
The balloon compresses the helium inside of it giving it more density and weight than any helium that might be in space.
No, it can't.
No - it expands as it get higher and then will explode because the air is thinner
depends where in outer space, if it is somewhere near moon ,then it would go towards the moon ie. away from the earth, regardless of its density.
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Answers:
Fraid not.
As the air gets thinner higher up, it gets lighter. The balloon will reach a point where it weighs the same as the air it displaces and in theory will hover. Wind and other air currents will prevent it staying still tough. Size of your balloon will dictate how high it 'hovers'.
A helium filled balloon can float very high up into the atmosphere, however, it cannot float up into outer space. The air in Earth's atmosphere gets thinner the higher up you go. The balloon can only rise up until the atmosphere surrounding it has the same weight as the helium in the balloon. This happens at about a height of 20 miles (32 kilometers) above Earth's surface. So, this is as far as a helium balloon can rise. Outer space starts somewhere around 600 miles (960 kilometers) above Earth's surface.
probably not - taking into accout clearing the atmosphere which tends to burn things up.
I guess it depends on quantity of helium, how big the balloon is, what the balloon is made of, and ultimately how long someone wants to stand underneath it to make sure it actually reaches outer space.
No, it will find a height where the density of the atmosphere is the same as the balloon. That will be determined by the volume of the balloon and the weight of the balloon material combined.
sure, coz everything just floats in space!!!!!
No.
The helium balloon floats because the helium inside the balloon is less dense than the air around it.
Once the helium balloon floats up, the helium in the balloon will expand due to decreasing atmospheric pressure on the balloon, and the balloon will explode.
Even if the balloon has skin that is very stretchable, the balloon will reach a point in the atmosphere where the density of the air is equal to that the helium in the balloon, and so with no difference in pressure, there is no upthrust on the balloon and the balloon will no longer float upwards.
it will float until it reaches a place where is thickness of air is low and it will blow in the next atmosphere zone
If a helium balloon is lighter than the air it is replacing, it will rise.
If it is the same weight, it will float / hover
In space, the weight of air in one cubic meter is practically 0, so a helium balloon could float in space if it weighed 0
in other words it can't go that high, helium weighs more than nothing.
Yes. There will be no gravity working on it.
The balloon compresses the helium inside of it giving it more density and weight than any helium that might be in space.
No, it can't.
No - it expands as it get higher and then will explode because the air is thinner
depends where in outer space, if it is somewhere near moon ,then it would go towards the moon ie. away from the earth, regardless of its density.
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