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Former partner sat with nothing special in this area in the upper circle
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exosphere
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n. the outermost atmospheric layer
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The exosphere ( "outside, external, beyond", "sphere") is a thin, atmosphere-like volume surrounding a planet or natural satellite where molecules are gravitationally bound to that body, but where the density is too low for them to behave as a gas by colliding ...
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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.