La exosfera o exósfera es la capa de la atmósfera de un planeta o satélite en la que los gases poco a poco se dispersan hasta que la composición es similar a la del espacio exterior. Es la capa menos densa y su ubicación varía en cada astro, en el caso de la Tierra comienza a los 690 kilómetros del suelo, en el de la Luna se encuentra a nivel del suelo.

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(See also: Extraterrestrial atmospheres and Extraterrestrial skies) The exosphere (Ancient Greek: ἔξω éxō "outside, external, beyond", Ancient Greek: σφαῖρα sphaĩra "sphere") 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. In the case of bodies with substantial atmospheres, such as Earth's atmosphere, the exosphere is the uppermost layer, where the atmosphere thins out and merges with interplanetary space. It is located directly above the thermosphere. Several moons, such as the Moon and the Galilean satellites of Jupiter, have exospheres without a denser atmosphere underneath, referred to as a surface boundary exosphere. Here, molecules are ejected on elliptic trajectories until they collide with the surface. Smaller bodies such as asteroids, in which the molecules emitted from the surface escape to space, are not considered to have exospheres.

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