Gas chromatographic analysis of air collected by a rocketborne cryogenic sampler between 44 and 62 km altitude over White Sands, New Mexico, showed a methane concentration of 0.25 ± 0.02 ppmv, which is only about 20% of its average concentration in the lower atmosphere.
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