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atmosphere
(redirected from mesosphere)

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atmosphere noun air, airspace, ambience, aura, background, circumambience, climate, climatic condition, element, environing influence, environment, medium, mood, setting, space, surroundings, weather
Associated concepts: clouding the atmosphere, polluting the atmosphere


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A 50-kilometer-thick band called the mesosphere roughly defines the sprites' habitat.
If it actually originated from sea salt broken apart by ultraviolet radiation in the stratosphere, as Beckmann contended, the ATMOS instrument and various observatories should have detected it streaming up from the stratosphere to the mesosphere, especially since sodium is easily detectable by absorption spectroscopy, as Beckmann himself pointed out.
Later this year, Orbital is scheduled to launch NASA's Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) spacecraft, which is now in production at Orbital's Dulles, Virginia satellite manufacturing facility.
 
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