• Question: does it rain in space and does it effect you?

    Asked by 566nch35 to Simon, Julia, Delma, Andrew, Alex on 14 Dec 2015.
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      Alexander Finch answered on 14 Dec 2015:


      No rain in space! Whenever there is water in space, it either freezes into a “fog” of ice particles (a bit like a cloud of snow or hail!) or it evaporates.

      But there is no snow or hail in space. Water is very rare in most of space – perhaps around comets you can find some, but almost all of space is empty! Rain is a type of weather, and weather only happens inside atmospheres, like down here on Earth! Other planets and moons that have atmospheres have rain too – Jupiter and Titan for example. On Mars, we think it snows sometimes!

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