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Radio Show & Podcast Feedback / Re: Our night sky
« on: 04/11/2016 11:53:34 »
thanks for sharing
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It begins at your feet and extends about 300 miles up.
What we see as the sky is really an optical illusion caused by light being scattered by the atmosphere, in practice most of this scattering takes place in the air of the troposphere which is about 12 miles high. However, we do refer to the aurora being seen in the sky, and this takes place in the upper zones above the troposphere.