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Temperatures are cooler in an environment where the air is thinner. A heavier atmosphere at lower altitudes acts like a green house and maintains a warmer climate.

If you were floating in space above the earth's atmosphere, you're closer to the sun than the earth, yet you will freeze to death in the vacuum of space.

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