As much as we should appreciate and protect the atmosphere that immediately embraces this planet, the other layers of the atmosphere are essential too and provide services we may not readily ...

But when I am talking about the atmosphere, I am referring to the layer closest to Earth, the troposphere, where all weather occurs. Of course, there are multiple layers to the atmosphere.

With that the amount of alumina released into the mesosphere and upper stratosphere — the otherwise pristine middle layers of the atmosphere — has been skyrocketing. Air pollution in the ...

Researchers have also found a small amount of oxygen in a thin layer of the planet's atmosphere, though it is atomic oxygen (O), not the molecular oxygen (O2) we breathe. In comparison ...

In 2025, around 120 SpaceX Starlink satellites re-entered Earth’s atmosphere and burnt up upon ... particularly their impact on the ozone layer. Scientists are now investigating whether the ...

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But at the end of their service life, decommissioned satellites burn up as they re-enter the atmosphere, triggering chemical reactions that deplete the Earth’s ozone layer. Through new simulations, ...

The answer comes more readily if the question is altered to, Why does the isothermal condition of the outer layers of our atmosphere suddenly cease at about 40,000 feet? The isothermal condition ...

1 He observed that “somewhere in the atmosphere below a height of 15.5 km. the intensity of the ionisation within a closed vessel exposed to the rays goes through a maximum, and then decreases”.