Sentences with phrase «about planetary atmospheres»

Sagan clearly felt that he had a duty to set Allègre straight on a matter concerning something Allègre had said about planetary atmospheres.

So what to conclude about planetary atmospheres?

Today's authors warn that such a mistake could lead us to false conclusions about planetary atmospheres, compositions, and habitability.

The effect of stellar contamination is up to 15 times larger than the signal expected from molecules in the atmosphere of a rocky planet (light green band), which means that we can't currently draw any meaningful conclusions about planetary atmospheres from measurements like this.

It's nigh impossible to measure anything meaningful about planetary atmospheres when there's such a large confounding influence.

Not exact matches

The decision was about scientific merit and risk, says Jim Green, NASA's planetary division director in Washington, D.C. Psyche and Lucy will use tested instruments on asteroids with no atmospheres to contend with.

The James Webb Space Telescope will look for planetary transits and measure and record light intensity at various wavelengths, telling us much about the planet's atmosphere.

But for planetary scientists, Jupiter's most distinctive mystery may be what's called the «energy crisis» of its upper atmosphere: how do temperatures average about as warm as Earth's even though the enormous planet is more than fives times further away from the sun?

That would have raised lunar air pressure to about 1 per cent that of modern Earth, or 1.5 times as dense as the atmosphere on Mars today (Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi.org/cdww).

«We can learn a lot about how planetary atmospheres like ours form by looking at them.»

These spectra are important because they could provide information about the chemical make - up of the planetary atmospheres.

Both Voyager 1 and 2 changed our perspective of our solar system, revealing never - before - seen details in planetary atmospheres and revealing new discoveries about interplanetary space.

The authors examine one famous M - dwarf planetary system, the seven - rocky - planet TRAPPIST - 1, and conclude that the effect of being wrong about starspots is up to 15 times bigger than the signal of the planets» atmospheres.

Transiting planets are ideal targets for astronomers wanting to know more about planetary compositions and atmospheres.

As mentioned in the introduction, the satellites which measure incoming and outgoing radiation at the top of Earth's atmosphere (TOA) can not measure the small planetary energy imbalance brought about by global warming.

«The kind of ignition you're talking about is rapid oxidation,» explained Drake Deming, an astronomy professor at the University of Maryland who has studied planetary atmospheres as a scientist for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Learning more about our own atmosphere can tell us much about our planetary neighbours — we could potentially apply such research to any astrophysical object with both an atmosphere and a magnetic field.

ABM: The whole point about the greenhouse gases in a planetary atmosphere is that they absorb the infrared radiation emitted by the surface, and so Kirchhoff's law does not apply.

To stand the best chance of keeping the planetary warming below an internationally agreed target of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit above preindustrial levels and thus avoiding the most dangerous effects of climate change, the panel found, only about 1 trillion tons of carbon can be burned and the resulting gas spewed into the atmosphere.

I am pleased that the long established settled science relating to planetary atmospheres is now coming to the fore once more after about 20 years during which it was apparently suppressed by ideologues with a non - scientific agenda.

That stubborn error in the satellite data is about six times larger than what is scientifically possible, and several times larger than the effect scientists are trying to see, namely planetary warming caused by continued massive emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

The physics relevant is what astrophysicists use to describe the atmospheres of stars, to gather information about Venus, or to explain the evolution of planetary climate.

The gas giants, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune do NOT have solid surfaces or distinctive solid / liquid / gas interfaces like the inner planets, so here we are talking about another «species» that operates more consistently fluid dynamically throughout the ENTIRE planet, not just in the planetary atmosphere.