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Old July 29th 05, 08:54 AM
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Chris L Peterson wrote in
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On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:18:01 +0000 (UTC), (Brian Tung)
wrote:

Assuming a scale height of 8 km (5 mi), it's about a third of a millibar.
Less than what you get on Mars.


About 0.1 mb at 64 km (40 miles). But that probably feels like a pretty
stiff wind at 15,000 mph!




Does the effect scale up and down evenly? ie: does a 15,000 mph wind
at 0.1 mb feel just like a 1.5 mph wind at 1000 mb????