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Extraterrestrial Environment
Medical Definition: | The environment outside the earth or its atmosphere. The environment may refer to a closed cabin (such as a space shuttle or space station) or to space itself, the moon, or other planets. |
Guide Notes: | no qualif; space itself or the SOLAR SYSTEM; PLANETS other than Earth; DF: EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIR |
Also Called: | Space (Astronomy) |
Cosmic Dust - Finely divided solid matter with particle sizes smaller than a micrometeorite, thus with diameters much smaller than a millimeter, moving in interplanetary space. (NASA Thesaurus, 1994) |
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