SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -Tropopause (between the troposphere and stratosphere): in this layer, the temperature remains constant at-55 °C, or-67°F.

Detailed explanation-2: -Therefore, the temperature in the troposphere also decreases with height in response. As one climbs higher, the temperature drops from an average around 62°F (17°C) to-60°F (-51°C) at the tropopause.

Detailed explanation-3: -Temperatures in the troposphere drop an average of 6.5 degrees C per kilometer (3.5 degrees F per 1, 000 feet) of altitude. Five kilometers up, the temperature would be 15-(5 x 6.5) =-17.5 degrees C. This rough equation remains reasonably accurate up to the tropopause.

Detailed explanation-4: -The troposphere ends with the Tropopause. The temperature in this layer, as one goes upwards, falls at the rate of 5°C per kilometer, and reaches-45°C at the poles and-80°C over the equator at Tropopause (greater fall in temperature above equator is because of the greater thickness of troposphere – 18 km).

Detailed explanation-5: -Therefore, in areas where (or at times when) the tropopause is exceptionally high, the tropopause temperature is also very low, sometimes below-80 C. Such low temperatures are not found anywhere else in the Earth’s atmosphere, at any level, except in the winter stratosphere over Antarctica.

Detailed explanation-6: -Troposphere (0-11 km. 15 to −56∘C), stratosphere (11-50 km, -56 to 2∘C), mesosphere (50-85 km.-2 to −92∘C), thermosphere (85-500 km, -92 to 1200∘C)

Detailed explanation-7: -The mesosphere a layer extending from approximately 30 to 50 miles (50 to 85 km) above the surface, is characterized by decreasing temperatures. The coldest temperatures in Earth’s atmosphere occur at the top of this layer, the mesopause, especially in the summer near the pole.