Caption: Earth's atmosphere structure: The US Standard Atmosphere (US, 1962) runs of density, pressure, sound speed, and Temperature with altitude (geometric altitude (NOT geopotential altitude).

The US Standard Atmosphere is similar to the International Standard Atmosphere. Both are sort of global average models of the Earth's atmosphere.

The figure also shows the approximate altitudes for various objects:

1. atmosphere layers and boundaries (pauses):
   1. troposphere, tropopause.
   2. stratosphere, stratopause.
   3. mesosphere, mesopause.
   4. thermosphere, thermopause.
   5. exosphere, Earth's exosphere, Earth's exosphere upper boundary.
2. Burj Khalifa.
3. Mount Everest.
4. typical airliner.
5. Concorde.
6. Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird.
7. ozone layer.
8. NASA X-43, NASA X-43A.
9. weather balloon.
10. meteor.
11. ionosphere, ionosphere D layer.
12. aurora.
13. Karman line.

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