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Is the air in the mesosphere thicker than the air in the stratosphere?
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∙ 15y ago
If by thicker you mean more dense then the answer is no.
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What is the name of the air layers?
The layers are present in stratosphere. These are troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere.
What are the layers of the air?
Layers of atmousphere/Air: Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere and Theremosphere
What is a layer of very thin air and very cold temperature above the stratosphere?
mesosphere
Why is the stratosphere warmer than the mesosphere even though the mesosphere is closer to the sun?
The difference in the distance to the Sun is irrelevant - it is 150 million kilometers away. Much more significant are other effects, for example the tendency of rising air to cool.
What is second major layer of earths atmosphere?
From on top of us: Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere.
Layer of air surrounding the Earth?
From the lowest to the highest (closest to the earth and then outward) the layers of atmosphere are: Troposphere Stratosphere Mesosphere Thermosphere Exosphere
What is less dense than the air in the stratosphere?
Nothing; the air concentration is low.
How does temperature change as you go higher through the atmosphere?
There are four layers of the atmosphere. At the ground is the troposphere, followed by the stratosphere, mesosphere and thermosphere. Temperature decreases with height through the troposphere, increases in the stratosphere, decreases in the mesosphere, then increases again in the thermosphere.
What is the coldest layer of the atmosphere?
The mesosphere is the layer of the atmosphere that exists between the stratosphere and the thermosphere. It contains the coldest parts of the Earth's atmosphere, reaching temperature depths of -90°C.
What happened in the mesosphere?
The mesosphere is a layer of Earth's atmosphere. The mesosphere is above the stratosphere layer. The layer above the mesosphere is called the thermosphere. The mesosphere starts at 50 km (31 miles) above Earth's surface and goes up to 85 km (53 miles) high.As you get higher up in the mesosphere, the temperature gets colder. The top of the mesosphere is the coldest part of Earth's atmosphere. The temperature there is around -90° C (-130° F)!The boundaries between layers in the atmosphere have special names. The mesopause is the boundary between the mesosphere and the thermosphere above it. The stratopause is the boundary between the mesosphere and the stratosphere below it.We know less about the mesosphere than about other layers of the atmosphere. The mesosphere is hard to study. Weather balloons and jet planes cannot fly high enough to reach the mesosphere. The orbits of satellites are above the mesosphere. We don't have many ways to get scientific instruments to the mesosphere to take measurements there. We do get some measurements using sounding rockets. Sounding rockets make short flights that don't go into orbit. Overall, there's a lot we don't know about the mesosphere because it is hard to measure and study.What do we know about the mesosphere? Most meteors from space burn up in this layer. A special type of clouds, called "noctilucent clouds", sometimes forms in the mesosphere near the North and South Poles. These clouds are strange because they form much, much higher up than any other type of cloud. There are also odd types of lightning in the mesosphere. These types of lightning, called "sprites" and "ELVES", appear dozens of miles above thunderclouds in the troposphere below.In the mesosphere and below, different kinds of gases are all mixed together in the air. Above the mesosphere, the air is so thin that atoms and molecules of gases hardly ever run into each other. The gases get separated some, depending on the kinds of elements (like nitrogen or oxygen) that are in them.You know that waves can form in the ocean or other bodies of water. But did you know that there are waves of air in the atmosphere? Some of these waves start in the lower atmosphere, the troposphere and stratosphere, and move upward into the mesosphere. The waves carry energy to the mesosphere. Most of the movement of air in the mesosphere is caused by these wave
Where is located immediately above the stratosphere?
It is the Troposphere. The tropopause separates the troposphere (the lowest level of the atmosphere) from the stratosphere. It can be identified by the temperature of the air -- while in the troposphere, temperature decreases as you gain altitude; in the stratosphere, temperature increases as you gain altitude.
What type of rock is mesosphere made of?
The mesosphere is air, the lithosphere is rock.
