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- It was still clear, but a thin, wispy scum of cirrus had spread across the upper atmosphere, and a dark line of squalls was visible just above the southwestern horizon.† (source)
- Drop it from the upper atmosphere.† (source)
- We'd be skimming the upper atmosphere, so our orbit would rapidly decay.† (source)
- When I crossed the goal line, I felt like a jet breaking through low clouds and coming out into the blue skies of the upper atmosphere.† (source)
- Saphira flew at as lofty an altitude as Eragon could endure because it was easier for her to traverse long distances in the rarefied upper atmosphere than in the thick, moist air near the ground.† (source)
- …calm to identify the nature of that determined wind and she left the sheets to the mercy of the light as she watched Remedios the Beauty waving good-bye in the midst of the flapping sheets that rose up with her, abandoning with her the environment of beetles and dahlias and passing through the air with her as four o' clock in the afternoon came to an end, and they were lost forever with her in the upper atmosphere where not even the highest-flying birds of memory could reach her.† (source)
- He would leave an offering to whatever deity inhabited the upper atmosphere.† (source)
- Neither knew much about the Scoops, except that they were a series of secret capsules intended to analyze the upper atmosphere and then return.† (source)
- How much was carried into the upper atmosphere and has been filtering down since?† (source)
- The loaded capsules are heavy; they punch through the high, thin winds of the upper atmosphere without being blown too far out of position — but just the same a platoon is bound to disperse on the way down, lose some of the perfect formation in which it unloads.† (source)
- Leavitt himself suggested the analogy of the upper atmosphere and the depths of the sea as equally inhospitable environments, but equally viable.† (source)
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- Its avowed aim was the collection of any organisms that might exist in "near space," the upper atmosphere of the earth.† (source)
- I think we can be fairly confident that the organism will move into the upper atmosphere without causing further difficulty on the surface, so there's no problem there.† (source)
- 87 gee, we had been told) for that planet as the capsule reached terminal velocity for the thin upper atmosphere.† (source)
- All afternoon the plane had soared through the thin mists of the upper atmosphere, far too high to give clear sight of what lay beneath.† (source)
- Here they sat down on a luxuriant heap of moss; which at some epoch of the preceding century, had been a gigantic pine, with its roots and trunk in the darksome shade, and its head aloft in the upper atmosphere.† (source)
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