Definition of asthenosphere : a zone of a celestial body (such as the earth) which lies beneath the lithosphere and within which the material is believed to yield readily to persistent stresses asthenospheric
Fraser: Right. Pamela: And so any time you hear a noise in space, if you hear explosions, thatâs probably your own spacecraft, and the noise is transferring through the hull and through the air in your spacecraft. Other than that, youâre not going to hear explosions.
Now, you take away that atmosphere, and you go into outer space with that rocket engine, and you find some way to detonate it (because thereâs not going to be a bonfire in outer space), well, that rocket engineâs going to poof in fractions of a second.