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It is a layer of gases surrounding a planet.
Includes troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere.
They vary in temperature, composition, and density.
Temperature generally decreases with altitude.
They are transition zones between different atmospheric layers.
The stratosphere has a temperature inversion and contains the ozone layer.
Temperature increases with altitude due to solar radiation absorption.
Weather disturbances occur here.
Temperature decreases with altitude.
Extends from 30 km to 50 km above the Earth.
Temperature increases with altitude.
Measures atmospheric parameters and transmits data.
It becomes less dense with less water vapor.
Absorbs harmful UV radiation from the sun.
The tropopause.
In the lower part of the stratosphere.
Radiosondes that measure ozone concentration.