Can you reach space in a balloon?

A helium-filled balloon can float very high up into the atmosphere, however, it cannot float up into outer space. 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.

What happens if you take a balloon to space?

When you blow up a balloon on Earth, the air pushed into the balloon is at a higher pressure than the air that surrounds it (1 atm). The air molecules in this space balloon would expand at an extremely rapid rate, quickly pushing the rubber walls past their elasticity limits, causing the balloon to explode.

What would happen if you filled a balloon on Earth and brought it to the moon?

The balloon expands because the atmospheric pressure of the moon is slightly lower than that of earth. The balloon bursts because the atmospheric of the moon is much lower than that of earth.

When an astronaut is in the International Space Station Why are they able to float?

If 90 percent of Earth’s gravity reaches the space station, then why do astronauts float there? The answer is because they are in free fall. In a vacuum, gravity causes all objects to fall at the same rate. The mass of the object does not matter.

Do balloons pop in space?

It will pop before even reaching Space, Space is what considered as zero to none presence of Gas. And Gases expand with altitude rise so the gases in the balloon will expand so much that the walls of the balloon will not be able to contain them and it will pop.

Will a balloon float on Mars?

Balloon Development Challenges for Mars In order to fly balloons at Mars, the balloons must be made of very lightweight material. The balloon’s internal pressure would be higher during the day than at night, although the balloon volume would remain the same.

Can you have a balloon on the moon?

A helium balloon on the moon might as well be made of lead. For any balloon to stay aloft in any atmosphere, the gas inside it must be lighter than the surrounding air. “But on the moon, there is no air, so there’s nothing for the helium to rise above,” says Marc Rayman, an engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.