How to Use mesosphere in a Sentence

mesosphere

noun
  • Just don’t stick the ceiling in the mesosphere.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 18 May 2026
  • But the mesosphere is so high that another source of dust is needed.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 6 Dec. 2016
  • And even in the mesosphere, where lift is optimal, these things do not generate much in the way of lift.
    — Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2025
  • But sussing out what gives the dunes their dazzling gleam might help researchers figure out what’s going on in the mesosphere as well.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Shoot a laser 56 miles into the mesosphere and measure the distortion.
    — Noah Shachtman, WIRED, 14 May 2010
  • The system was then instructed to reconstruct what may be happening within the mesosphere to fill in the blanks.
    — Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Even if microbes don’t ascend to the mesosphere, getting 25 miles into the air is an impressive feat.
    — Carl Zimmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2025
  • But this new study comes with higher hopes—designing a flight system so stable that researchers could simply let these devices loose in the mesosphere.
    — Max G. Levy, Wired, 12 Feb. 2021
  • In fact, the mesosphere contains very little moisture — just a tiny fraction of the level of moisture in the air in the Sahara.
    — Kathryn Prociv, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2018
  • This is the first time that Virgin Galactic has flown into the mesosphere, Ars reports.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 Aug. 2018
  • The volcanic eruption shot gas and ash 36 miles up into Earth’s mesosphere, higher than the plume from any other volcano on record.
    — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
  • These mysterious, thin veils of clouds appear to form around the polar regions in the mesosphere, the highest level of Earth’s atmosphere.
    — National Geographic, 22 June 2017
  • Things burn up in the mesosphere because of the energy produced through friction between the object falling through the mesosphere and the molecules in the mesosphere.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Noctilucent clouds are the highest clouds in Earth’s atmosphere, located in the mesosphere about 50 miles above the surface.
    — Kathryn Prociv, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2018
  • High in the mesosphere above Earth’s North and South Poles, feathery, glowing clouds occasionally stripe the night sky.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Falling spacecraft gradually ablate — the technical term for burning up — about 40 miles above the ground, in the mesosphere, which sits above the stratosphere.
    — Ramin Skibba, Rolling Stone, 6 July 2024
  • So as to keep from soaring clean into the mesosphere at the first gust of a wind, the Canopy anchors to the vehicle via a series of elastic bands and suction cups and also stakes down to the ground.
    — New Atlas, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Meteors typically occur in the mesosphere, which is around 30 to 50 miles from Earth’s surface.
    — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 4 July 2023
  • Meteors typically occur in the mesosphere, which is around 30 to 50 miles from Earth’s surface.
    — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Creating disks truly capable of pulling their own weight in the mesosphere or beyond is a more formidable task—akin to a five- to 10-year project, Schafer says.
    — Payal Dhar, Scientific American, 19 Aug. 2025
  • These mysterious, thin veils of clouds appear to form around Earth’s polar regions in the mesosphere, the highest level of Earth’s atmosphere.
    — National Geographic, 15 June 2016
  • Flashing through the sky, these red sprites, or red lightning streaks, arise when a sudden flow of electricity shoots through the mesosphere, around 30 miles to 50 miles above Earth.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2025
  • These conditions are ideal for spotting noctilucent clouds, shimmering blue clouds composed of ice crystals that form in the mesosphere some 50 miles above Earth.
    — Justin Grieser, Washington Post, 21 June 2023
  • With that the amount of alumina released into the mesosphere and upper stratosphere — the otherwise pristine middle layers of the atmosphere — has been skyrocketing.
    — Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 2 Feb. 2025
  • Unlike the familiar bolts that crack down from clouds to the ground, sprites shoot upward into the mesosphere, often appearing red or pink, due to the interaction of nitrogen molecules with high-energy electrons.
    — Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025
  • His popularity, based on the raft of toys, fashion collaborations and multimillion dollar auction results, hovers somewhere near the mesosphere.
    — Max Lakin, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2020
  • But there are definitely a lot of very large hurdles between the work and practical applications on Earth—much less on Mars, where the authors suggest the system could also be used to explore the mesosphere.
    — Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The clouds tend to form near polar regions, where the mesosphere is at its coldest, according to the Royal Meteorological Society.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 5 June 2026
  • Finally, the researchers calculate that the lift is at its maximum in the mesosphere, the area just above the stratosphere (50–100 kilometers above Earth's surface).
    — Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The Soviet rockets actually went beyond the stratosphere to another layer, called the mesosphere, where meteors falling toward Earth burn into shooting stars.
    — Carl Zimmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2025

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