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WillowIX · 09-26-2002, 07:06 AM

Just a small note... It´s not quite correct to say that the temperature drops with the higher the altitude. When reaching the stratosphere(?) the temperature will start to rise again to about 0 degrees C, since the UV radiation is absorbed in this layer. We´re now around 25 miles up. Still further up the temperature will drop again, in the Mesosphere, to about -95 degrees C, 40-50 miles up in the blue

. Above that comes the Thermosphere and as the name suggests it gets warmer again, up to 1,700 degrees C due to the Sun´s energy. I think NASA has some exact numbers somewhere on their site, not sure though but it seems likely.

09-26-2002, 07:06 AM	#5
WillowIX Apophis Join Date: July 10, 2001 Location: By a big blue lake, Canada Age: 51 Posts: 4,628	Just a small note... It´s not quite correct to say that the temperature drops with the higher the altitude. When reaching the stratosphere(?) the temperature will start to rise again to about 0 degrees C, since the UV radiation is absorbed in this layer. We´re now around 25 miles up. Still further up the temperature will drop again, in the Mesosphere, to about -95 degrees C, 40-50 miles up in the blue . Above that comes the Thermosphere and as the name suggests it gets warmer again, up to 1,700 degrees C due to the Sun´s energy. I think NASA has some exact numbers somewhere on their site, not sure though but it seems likely. __________________ Confuzzled by nature.