How to Use exosphere in a Sentence

exosphere

noun

• About four hundred miles above the Earth, the exosphere begins.
  — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2020
• And charged particles in the exosphere can be carried around and away from the planet by the magnetic field.
  — Lisa Grossman, WIRED, 15 July 2010
• Io’s exosphere can extend up to 500 times Jupiter’s radius, Oza says.
  — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2021
• But each Apollo lander injected about 20 tons of gas into the exosphere in the form of rocket exhaust.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2023
• The craft will attempt to land near Boguslawsky crater in the Moon’s south polar region to study components of the lunar polar exosphere.
  — Mac Stone, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2023
• The mysterious moon has a very, very thin atmosphere, called an exosphere, that’s rich in carbon dioxide, and trace amounts of oxygen and nitrogen.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 7 Apr. 2020
• The problem is that if there really are 1,000 ions per cubic centimeter, the ionization of gas in the lunar exosphere can’t account for such a high concentration—there just isn’t enough gas.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, WIRED, 16 July 2019
• The spacecraft has two spectrometers that will be analyzing the exosphere.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 9 Sep. 2013
• Meanwhile, in the low exosphere, the environment continues to degrade.
  — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2020
• Because nitrogen is a volatile chemical, some of it sublimates and gives Pluto a tenuous atmosphere still thick enough to be more than an exosphere.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2015
• This is way beyond Mars’ normal weather, reaching into the exosphere where the atmosphere merges with interplanetary space.
  — Christian Schroeder, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2015
• Mercury has what’s called an exosphere made from solar-wind propelled oxygen, sodium, hydrogen, helium, and potassium atoms that have bounced off the planet's surface.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 9 Nov. 2019
• The exosphere’s the limit for a group of traveling salespeople who pedal lunar timeshares in Apple TV+’s retro-futuristic dramedy.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2023
• One method of achieving this is to have a ballistic missile launch what’s called a hypersonic glide vehicle into the exosphere—a vehicle that’s then able to skip-glide just over the atmosphere, repeatedly bouncing off the dense air molecules below.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2023
• In the 1970s two Soviet lunar orbiters discovered that ions also existed in the moon’s ultra-thin exosphere, and scientists have been trying to explain this observation ever since.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, WIRED, 16 July 2019
• Giant Steps set a new benchmark for virtuosity and harmonic complexity, a manned probe into jazz’s exosphere.
  — Julian Sancton, Billboard, 5 May 2017
• Instead scientists refer to its extremely thin covering of oxygen, hydrogen, sodium, helium, and potassium as an exosphere.
  — National Geographic, 27 Mar. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Aug 2024