upper atmosphere
Example Sentences
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The problem became more urgent as recent solar activity caused Earth's upper atmosphere to expand.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
After more than a century of powered flight, Mr. Kirsch writes, we “have not yet securely attached the upper atmosphere to the realm of human experience.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Ballistic missiles travel into the upper atmosphere or space before plunging back down toward a target, but not all are capable of maneuvering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Cherubim and his colleagues developed a theoretical model predicting that the upper atmosphere of LHS 1140 b would contain large amounts of helium slowly escaping into space.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
Now Brahe set about proving that the impossible had in fact occurred by showing, using elementary trigonometry, that the new star could not be in the upper atmosphere but must be in the heavens.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
