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Why does the thermosphere have the highest temperature of all the atmosphere layers?

April 26, 2017atmosphere Highest layers temperature thermosphere

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Why does the thermosphere have the highest temperature of all the atmosphere layers?

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Although technically “hot”, the gas in the thermosphere is so thin that it can pass little heat to other molecules, and loss of heat by radiation would still cool objects in this part of the atmosphere.