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Read the following passage and answer the questions given below:

Project Loon is a research and development project being developed by X (formerly Google X) with the mission of providing Internet access of rural and remote areas. The project uses high- altitude balloons placed in the stratosphere at an altitude of about 18 km (11 mi) to create an aerial wireless network with up to 4G-LTE speeds. It was named Project Loon, since even Google itself found the idea of providiing Internet access to 5 billion population. The signal travels through the balloon network from balloon to balloon, then to a ground-based station connected to an Internet Service Providers (ISP), then onto the global Internet. The balloons use this patch antennas – which are directional antennas – to transmit signals to ground stations or LTE users.

In which layer of atmosphere are these high- altitude balloons placed?

1
Troposphere 
2
Mesosphere 
3
Thermosphere
4
Stratosphere 
5
Exosphere 

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