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The gaseous envelope surrounding the *Earth*, and retained by the Earth's gravitational field. If your question is about the atmosphere on another celestial body or is more astronomy related, please ask on Astronomy.SE.

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What does the "strength" of a circulation cell refer to?

If I recall correctly from my bachelor lectures the strength of the Hadley or Ferrell cells are often described in terms of kg/s (or sverdrup, so 109 kg/s), so i.e. mass flow of air. I am not sure if …
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Why does the camera do this and what does the sky really look like around 87,000 ft altitude?

I guess the camera captures quite a good impression on how dark the upper parts of the atmosphere are. …
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