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A person viewing stars at night. A shooting star creates a blue streak in the sky.
During an evening hike, you see a shooting star just like the one pictured here.
In which layer of the atmosphere does this shooting star occur?
troposphere
stratosphere
mesosphere
thermosphere
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Mesosphere.
Meteors (shooting stars) heat up and ablate at high altitudes—roughly 50–90 km above Earth—so the visible streaks occur in the mesosphere.
Meteors (shooting stars) heat up and ablate at high altitudes—roughly 50–90 km above Earth—so the visible streaks occur in the mesosphere.
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