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Stratosphere
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In the stratosphere, roughly 7 to 25 miles above Earth’s surface, the ozone layer acts like sunscreen, shielding the planet from potentially harmful ultraviolet radiation that can cause skin cancer and cataracts, suppress immune systems and also damage plants.
Ozone in the stratosphere absorbs some of the sun’s harmful ultraviolet radiation.
Chlorine in the air needs cold temperatures in the stratosphere and clouds to convert into a form of the chemical that eats ozone, Newman said. The clouds go away when it warms up.
Yanni told Skura that he couldn't see her anymore and this sent her into the stratosphere.
The ozone in the stratosphere absorbs ultraviolet radiation.
Lukas neared the stratosphere of the planet.
The aerospace company Airbus Group recently completed the first flight of a glider it calls Perlan 2. The Perlan Project intends to use gliders to take measurements in the stratosphere. Scientists believe weather in the stratosphere affects the Earth’s climate more than they thought before.
According to a new study, the thawing Alaskan permafrost is releasing emissions of nitrous oxide at a rate about 12 times higher than thought. Along with being the third most significant greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide, once it combines with sunlight and oxygen in the stratosphere can convert to nitrogen oxides. This is something scientists say may harm the ozone layer.
The team's goal is to eventually fly the single-propeller aircraft studded with 22 square meters of solar panels into the stratosphere. In 2022, the team hopes to carry out a high-altitude flight powered exclusively by solar energy, seeking to reach the stratosphere at an altitude of 20,000 meters.
Variation in height of the stratosphere (isothermal layer).
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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.
The technique would involve spraying large amounts of sulfate particles into the Earth’s lower stratosphere at altitudes as high as 12 miles. The scientists propose delivering the sulfates with specially designed high-altitude aircraft, balloons or large naval-style guns.
Even if you’ve run an ironclad household budget and managed your retirement accounts on your own, you’re about to be at a level of wealth in a different stratosphere. It’s time to hire professionals.
So great is the part played by stratified deposits in the structure of the earth’s crust that we might be tempted to speak of the stratosphere of the earth in contradistinction to the scoriosphere of the moon.
The stratosphere, or younger sedimentary envelope has been formed almost entirely at the expense of the Sal envelope.
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