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Mesosphere vs Asthenosphere - What's the difference?

mesosphere | asthenosphere |

As nouns the difference between mesosphere and asthenosphere

is that mesosphere is layer of the Earth's atmosphere that is directly above the stratosphere and directly below the thermosphere while asthenosphere is the zone of the Earth's upper mantle, below the lithosphere.

mesosphere

English

(wikipedia mesosphere)

Noun

(en noun)
  • layer of the Earth's atmosphere that is directly above the stratosphere and directly below the thermosphere

    • asthenosphere

    English

    (wikipedia asthenosphere)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geology) The zone of the Earth's upper mantle, below the lithosphere.
  • * 2003 , (Bill Bryson), A Short History of Nearly Everything , BCA, p. 192:
    • To say that the lithosphere floats on top of the asthenosphere suggests a degree of easy buoyancy that isn't quite right.
  • * 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 79:
    • The asthenosphere that underlies the surface plates is not liquid in any vernacular sense, although it is relatively plastic.