Hello all, I hope I've found the right place for a question about air.
I was talking with my Son about Mars - I'd read somewhere that Mars had about 5% air that the Earth had and sometimes had 200mph winds - my Son said you couldn't walk out in wind like that. To which my ears pricked up. I said that as the air pressure was 5% of the Earths air pressure then the wind hitting your skin (assuming you could) would feel like a 10mph breeze on Earth.
My thinking here is the kenetic force an object can carry, in this case the air molecules. As the number of molecules would be 20 times less than on earth then the force delivered would be lower....
anyhow, as kids do my Son then went and told his Astronomy teacher who said I was wrong?
OK so folks, am I wrong?