Over time, they noticed that the atmosphere had distinct layers. By the early 1900s, scientists had identified major layers of the atmosphere based on how the temperature changed at different ...

The layers of the atmosphere shown to scale and a discussion of what happens at each layer. The layers in order from the ground up: Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, and the ...

When you look at photographs of Earth from space, the planet looks like a blue marble, with patterns of clouds lying on the surface of the marble. It seems as if Earth's atmosphere is incredibly ...

The atmosphere's lowermost 10 km have long been assumed to be almost solely responsible for weather and climate on Earth. Emerging evidence points to the layer above as an important influence on ...