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Language:enStatus: Standard
Term: thermosphere
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Definition: that part of the Earth's atmosphere located above the mesosphere in which temperature increases and then remains constant with increasing height and from which there is virtually no further escape of particles to free space

NOTE – The thermosphere extends to a height of 500 to 600 km.


Publication date:1995-09
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