Phrases with «rotation of the planet»

Sentences with «rotation of the planet»

  • That takes 23 hours and 56 minutes — one complete rotation of our planet. (discovermagazine.com)
  • (Here a «year» is presumably defined by a complete rotation of the planet around the Sun, which can be discerned by the stars, rather than by one full cycle of the seasons.) (climatesight.org)
  • When Cassini probed below the haze and into the troposphere, it revealed that the width of Saturn's bands alternates with latitude: narrower ones are darker and coincident with rapid jet streams, and the wider bands tend to be brighter, aligned with jets that are slower and maybe even stationary, relative to the general rotation of the planet. (scientificamerican.com)
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