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Answer for the clue "The outermost atmospheric layer ", 9 letters:
exosphere

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Exosphere (foaled 25 August 2012) is a Thoroughbred racehorse trained and bred in Australia. He won the Golden Rose Stakes , a Group one race, and has accumulated over a million dollars in winnings.

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n. the outermost atmospheric layer

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n. 1 the uppermost layer of a planet's atmosphere 2 an extremely thin atmosphere, as on Saturn's moon Dione

Usage examples of exosphere.

She felt the exosphere seal behind her, planetary ozone readings returning to normal within milliseconds of her passage.

Gyroscopes whined viciously and rockets screamed, driving the ship down to the exosphere in a powered dive.

He had hesitated a bit too long for orbit and the lower limits of the planetary exosphere were now screaming past the ship.

II is a small world at the L4 resonance point with a strong magnetic field and a resulting hot exosphere that precludes a dense atmosphere.

Further within this energy envelope are layers of tenuous matter called the atmospheric strata: exosphere, ionosphere, mesosphere, stratosphere, and troposphere.