Sentences with phrase «high cloud decks»

High cloud decks apparently block light from individual molecules lower in their atmospheres, making it harder to identify them.

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But in the southern hemisphere, the poleward contraction of the high clouds is balanced by an expansion of the already extensive low cloud decks, which ends up blocking more sunlight and producing a small surface cooling.

Rather than having a thin atmosphere and solid - and - liquid surface like Earth, Saturn is a gas giant whose deep atmosphere is layered with multiple cloud decks at high altitudes.