• Question: how does our skin react in space without a spacesuit on?

    Asked by NAZ252 to Ajay, Kate, Kuntal, Pip, Reka on 15 Nov 2016. This question was also asked by AHMED7860 GAMER.
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      Kate Elliott answered on 15 Nov 2016:

      The ozone layer on earth protects us from most of the suns harmful UV rays. UV causes us to get sun burn, so without the ozone layer we’d get awful sun burn pretty quickly. There are also higher energy rays, like x-rays, which along with the UV would increase or chances of getting cancer. The lack of oxygen and pressure would kill us way before we’d need to worry about that though!

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