Mesosphere

Have you ever seen a meteor shower, where meteors burn up and streak across the sky? Those meteors are burning up in the mesosphere.

Temperatures in the mesosphere drop with increasing altitude to about -100 degrees C.

The mesosphere is cold enough to freeze water vapor into ice clouds. You can see these clouds if sunlight hits them after sunset. They are called noctilucent clouds.

The mesosphere is also the layer in which a lot of meteors burn up while entering Earth’s atmosphere.

The thermosphere is located above the mesosphere and below the exosphere.

The mesosphere may be described as the earth's intermediate or middle atmosphere, which separates the thermosphere above from the ozonosphere (or stratosphere) below, both of which are responsible for absorption of most of the ultraviolet part of the solar radiation and preventing it from reaching the earth's surface.