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Ionosphere   Listen
noun
ionosphere  n.  The outer region of the earth's atmosphere, beyond which is the exosphere; it contains a high concentration of free electrons and ions, and extends from about 50 miles to about 250 miles above the earth's surface, but the height shows daily and seasonal variation, and the composition of the particles in the ionosphere is also affected by events such as solar flares.





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"Ionosphere" Quotes from Famous Books



... ionosphere, seventy miles above the surface of the Earth, a fifteen-hundred-mile-an-hour rocket airliner winged its way westward across the Atlantic, pushing herself forward on the thin, whispering, white-hot jets of her atomic ...
— The Penal Cluster • Ivar Jorgensen (AKA Randall Garrett)


Words linked to "Ionosphere" :   F region, D region, D-layer, F layer, Appleton layer, region, atmosphere, Kennelly-Heaviside layer, part


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