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Re:Earth’s Atmosphere Stretches Out to the Moon and Beyond by mLuby on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @11:22PM (#19214527)
As I recall you can't even do this for Earth's atmosphere below the Karman line—it's experimentally derived. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Atmosph...
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Re:Earth’s Atmosphere Stretches Out to the Moon and Beyond by ummonk on Thursday February 21, 2019 @12:58AM (#19214872)
You could just assume constant temperature (using e.g. blackbody temperature based on solar radiation) and get a first order approximation of the behavior of the atmosphere. Won't be as good as the standard atmosphere model which uses empirical temperature gradients, but it will provide a ballpark model of the atmosphere.
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