Experts have noticed changes in the atmosphere. Meteoroids burn up as they pass through Earth's atmosphere. The planets have different atmospheres. a country inn with lots of atmosphere The food was good but the restaurant has no atmosphere.
Recent Examples on the WebInstead of an atmosphere, Mercury has a thin exposure made of atoms that use solar wind and strike meteoroids to blast off the surface, NASA writes. Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2022 And the wetlands beavers create may have the extra benefit of stashing carbon out of the atmosphere.The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Sep. 2022 The two solid rocket boosters and core stage are filled with 733,000 gallons of propellant, which will push the Orion orbiter out of the atmosphere and into orbit. Chris Morris, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2022 During radio occultation, radio waves bend against denser regions of the atmosphere, revealing information about temperature, humidity and pressure. Isabelle Bousquette, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2022 Traveling 32 times faster than the speed of sound, the spacecraft will dip into the top layers of the atmosphere, shed some of that speed and skip like a rock back into space. Nadia Drake, Scientific American, 24 Aug. 2022 But human influence is affecting the dynamics of weather systems, the periodicity of the jet stream and the moisture-holding capacity of the atmosphere. Matthew Cappucci, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2022 PWATs, or precipitable water indexes — a measure of how much moisture is present in a column of air from the bottom to the top of the atmosphere — are approaching a remarkable three inches. Zach Rosenthal, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2022 Meanwhile, carbon removal—sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere—has not been proven on any mass scale. Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 18 Aug. 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
earlier in Latinate form atmo-sphæra, from Greek atmós "steam, vapor" (probably contracted from aetmós, of uncertain origin) + -o--o- + Latin sphaerasphere entry 1
Note: The word atmo-sphæra was apparently introduced by the English clergyman and natural philosopher John Wilkins (1614-72) in The Discovery of a World in the Moone (London, 1638), p. 138: "Proposition 10. That there is an Atmo-sphæra, or an orbe of grosse vaporous aire, immediately encompassing the body of the Moone."