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“EXOSPHERE”
“THERMOSPHERE”
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-the thermopause is the atmospheric boundary of earth’s energy system, located at the top of the [thermosphere]-
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(the temperature of the thermopause could range up to absolute zero to 987.548 °C (1,810 °F))
(below this, the atmosphere is defined to be ‘active’ on the insolation received, due to the increased presence of heavier gases such as ‘monatomic oxygen’)
(the ‘solar constant’ is thus expressed at the ‘thermopause’)
(beyond (above) this, the ‘exosphere’ describes the thinnest remainder of ‘atmospheric particles’ with large mean free path, mostly ‘hydrogen’ and ‘helium’)
(as a limit for the exosphere this boundary is also called ‘exobase’)
(the exact altitude varies by the energy inputs of ‘location’, ‘time of day’, ‘solar flux’, ‘season’, etc. and can be between 500 and 1,000 kilometres (310 and 620 mi) high at a given place and time because of these)
(a portion of the ‘magnetosphere’ dips below this layer as well)
(although these are all named layers of the ‘atmosphere’, the pressure is so negligible that the chiefly-used definitions of ‘outer space’ are actually below this altitude)
(‘orbiting satellites’ do not experience significant ‘atmospheric heating’, but their orbits do decay over time, depending on ‘orbit altitude’)
(space missions such as the ‘ISS’, ‘space shuttle’, and ‘soyuz’ operate under this layer)
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