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which statement correctly describes the mesosphere? meteors burn up in this layer to create shooting stars, commercial airplanes fly through this layer, the northern lights are visible in this layer, atmospheric changes in this layer cause weather at earths surface

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"Meteors burn up in this layer to create shooting stars."

The mesosphere (roughly 50–85 km altitude) is where most meteors ablate. Commercial planes fly in the troposphere/low stratosphere, auroras occur mainly in the thermosphere/ionosphere, and weather is caused in the troposphere.