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Mesosphere  

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  • The layer of the atmosphere located between the stratosphere and the ionosphere, where temperature drops rapidly with increasing height. It extends between 17 to 80 kilometers above the Earth's surface. (en)

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http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1030

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