The phrase "a thin layer of atmosphere" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the atmospheric conditions of a planet or celestial body, particularly in scientific or educational contexts.
Example: "Mars has a thin layer of atmosphere that is primarily composed of carbon dioxide."
Alternatives: "a delicate atmospheric layer" or "a sparse atmosphere".
"It's this convergence of a burgeoning human population with a remarkably thin layer of atmosphere that is warming our world," Nye said.
Whew...And, there were a lot of people on this planet.... It's this convergence of a burgeoning human population with a remarkably thin layer of atmosphere that is warming our world.
Under a startlingly thin layer of atmosphere, vast expanses of desert ceded to forests that gave way to the oceans that make up 70 percent of Earth's surface.
In graduate school, Pasachoff studied solar physics, using an observatory in Sunspot, N.M., to observe a thin layer of the sun's atmosphere known as the chromosphere.
He has a brief, childish cartoon to explain that the thin layer of atmosphere that surrounds the Earth - like the coat of varnish on a wooden globe - is being thickened by vast quantities of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
In the jargon used to count the steady accumulation of carbon dioxide in the Earth's thin layer of atmosphere, he said it was "improbable" that levels could now be restricted to 650 parts per million (ppm).
I remember thinking it was very strange that we were capable of changing the entire face of the Earth and the precious thin layer of atmosphere that makes it our home.
But those techniques sample only a thin layer of material at the very top of the atmosphere, Graham said.
However, in 99percentt of viewing cases, a natural guide star is not available, so Keck 1 and Keck 2 use a laser guide star, which is created by sending a sodium-wavelength laser beam into the upper atmosphere to excite a thin layer of sodium atoms there.
