Layers of atmosphere
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- Defined as the area of air and gas enveloping objects in space, like stars and planets or air around any location
- most densest
- Above the troposphere. The ozone layer which absorbs, and scatters solar ultraviolet radiation in this layer
- meteors burn up in this layer
- Aurora and satellites occur in this layer
- Abundant layer of electrons and ionized atoms and molecules stretches.
- upper limit of our atmosphere
- Starts the Earth's surface
- Starts above the troposphere and extends 50 km high
- Overlapping into mesosphere and thermosphere