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What exactly does exosphere mean

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Short answer: It's the outermost region of a planet's atmosphere.

Long answer: The exosphere is a thin, atmosphere-like volume surrounding a planet or natural satellite where molecules are gravitationally bound to that body, but where the density is too low for them to behave as a gas by colliding with each other.

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