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2007-04-29 06:38:09 · 8 answers · asked by Bernie D 2 in Science & Mathematics Astronomy & Space

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The Moon is not in Earth's atmosphere. The atmosphere doesn't end with a sharp demarcation, and there are several ways to measure it.

Objects returning from space, like the space shuttle, begin to experience atmospheric effects at about 75 miles. Legally there's something called the Karman line, at 62 miles, which is designated the top of the atmosphere by the FAA. NASA says it's 50 miles, above which you are legally an astronaut.

The height of the atmosphere changes. During times when the Sun puts out more energy, the atmosphere can expand slightly, but these are good approximations.

The Moon orbits the Eart at 250,000 miles. That's well beyond the atmosphere. If it weren't the drag would slow the Moon down, and it would de-orbit.

Here's a good illustration. Get yourself a globe. Locate any two cities about 50 miles apart. Put a string between them to get the length. Los Angeles and Anaheim work. Pick one end of the string up. That's the atmosphere. Do it again with two cities about 400 miles apart, like New York and Cleveland. That's where the space shuttle orbits.

Wrap the string around the equator. That's 25,000 miles, the distance (approximately) to geostationary satellites like weather and communications satellites.

Wrap it ten times around the equator. That's the distance to the Moon.

You start to appreciate what those Apollo astronauts did. Pretty scary to be that far away from home in a ship the size of a Volkwagon Beetle

2007-04-29 06:50:54 · answer #1 · answered by TychaBrahe 7 · 1 0

The Moon does not reside nor orbit into or through any area commonly considered to be Earth's atmosphere. The earth's atmosphere has many varying regions.

This site: http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/space/atmosphere.html
indicates their definition of atmosphere ends about 560km or 348 miles above the Planet. No where near the Moon.

However the Ionosphere extends from 100mi to approx 600mi above the Planet. The Gravitational effects of the Earth extends hundreds of thousands of miles into space (it controls the Moon at 240,000 miles away, right?) But by most definitions, gravitational pull is not considered a part of a Planet's atmosphere.

So your answer to which layer: None

Have fun!

2007-04-29 09:19:27 · answer #2 · answered by Stratman 4 · 1 0

The atmosphere stops at 10000 km (a zone called exosphere) although one can consider the magnetosphere to be part of the atmospher (somewhat improperly). The magnetosphere reaches between 70000 km on the side facing the sun to 1.5 million km on the face away from the sun.
Since the moon orbits at about 400000 km, it periodically enters and exist the earth's magnetosphere.

But for all practical purposes, it should be started that the moon is NOT in any real layer of the earth's atmosphere.

2007-04-29 06:47:34 · answer #3 · answered by Vincent G 7 · 1 0

It's not really. Most of our atmosphere ends about 118 miles up. The moon is about 240, 000 miles away.

2007-04-29 13:35:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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2016-11-23 15:00:27 · answer #5 · answered by motato 4 · 0 0

the moon doesn't locate in the atmosphere it lies outside it

2007-04-29 07:26:52 · answer #6 · answered by trk 1 · 1 0

Moon does not have a atmosphere.
Links:NASA
NGC

2007-04-29 20:04:16 · answer #7 · answered by Arun P 2 · 0 1

none

2007-04-29 08:35:32 · answer #8 · answered by az_phil 2 · 0 1

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