The atmosphere has four layers. The troposphere is the layer closest to the surface of the Earth. Next is the stratosphere, which is where commercial airplanes fly. Further out is the mesosphere ...

The Earth’s atmosphere is the relatively thin layer of gases surrounding the planet. The atmosphere is held close to Earth by gravity, but the higher you go away from the Earth’s surface ...

The combined light from four of the telescopes comprising ... through different atmospheric layers. Because each layer in the planet's atmosphere hosts unique winds carrying different elements ...

Yet in Tylos’s atmosphere, it is the winds in the lower layer that are driven by heat from the planet’s star, travelling away from the warm side, while the jet stream appears to be mostly in ...

By combining all four telescope units of the European ... probing different layers of the atmosphere as a result. "The VLT enabled us to probe three different layers of the exoplanet's atmosphere ...