How to Use exosphere in a Sentence
exosphere
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About four hundred miles above the Earth, the exosphere begins.
—Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2020
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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
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Io’s exosphere can extend up to 500 times Jupiter’s radius, Oza says.
—Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The spacecraft has two spectrometers that will be analyzing the exosphere.
—Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 9 Sep. 2013
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Meanwhile, in the low exosphere, the environment continues to degrade.
—Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Giant Steps set a new benchmark for virtuosity and harmonic complexity, a manned probe into jazz’s exosphere.
—Julian Sancton, Billboard, 5 May 2017
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Instead scientists refer to its extremely thin covering of oxygen, hydrogen, sodium, helium, and potassium as an exosphere.
—National Geographic, 27 Mar. 2019
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