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Why does the thermosphere have the highest temperature of all the atmosphere layers

The thermosphere is the first layer of the atmosphere where there are enough heavier molecules (oxygen) to absorb a significant anount of the Sun's radiation. Below the thermosphere, much of the heat is dissipated by convective currents.
Although technically "hot", the gas in the thermosphere is so thin that it can pass little heat to other molecules, and loss of heat by radiation would still cool objects in this part of the atmosphere.
the sun's radiation strikes it first

Most meteors burn up in which layer of the atmosphere even though it's the coldest layer

mesophere

The aurora borealis is caused by the what which is part of the Thermosphere

ionosphere

What is 99 percent of the atmosphere is made up of either oxygen or

nitrogen

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