Sentences with phrase «along planet surfaces»

Not exact matches

Large earthquakes happen mostly along faults where tectonic plates meet as they move over the planet's surface.

By combining observations from the ground and in space, the team observed a plume of low - energy plasma particles that essentially hitches a ride along magnetic field lines — streaming from Earth's lower atmosphere up to the point, tens of thousands of kilometers above the surface, where the planet's magnetic field connects with that of the sun.

Ever since, it has been returning stunning images of the planet's surface along with evidence of water and carbon dioxide ice.

Researchers developed two theories to explain the planet's smooth surface: Either our sister world underwent a planetwide paroxysm of lava flows about 500 million years ago, before falling into a geologic coma, or it has been awake all along, resurfacing itself in small eruptive spurts.

After comparing it with domes on Earth, scientists now believe Ahuna Mons formed when a slushy mix of internal ice and natural antifreeze reached the surface along a duct — just as magma builds volcanoes on our planet.

Along with atmospheres, they happen to protect the planets» surfaces from this harmful radiation.

That's because ions spiral along Jupiter's magnetic field lines, and the lines that loop out to 2 million kilometers pierce the planet's surface at latitudes well away from the poles.

In the handful of minutes that the planes zip along in darkness, the instruments could collect enough data to answer this Mercury mystery: What is the innermost planet's surface made of?

The quake happened along a seam in the planet's surface where the Pacific Ocean floor is diving beneath the tectonic plate carrying northern Japan (see «Collision zone»).

A quick search through the celestiamotherlode site uncovers detailed excursions to each planet, along with more adventurous journeys that take you from outside the Milky Way all the way to the surface of the sun.

Cruising along the planet's surface?

Many experts believe Ceres» striking surface features were caused by impacts along with stresses from within the dwarf planet.

For example, «Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, along with a handful of other gases, plays a central role in determining the average surface temperature of our planet.

«If current policy continues to fail — along the lines of the «agree and ignore» scenario — then 50 % to 80 % of all species on earth could be driven to extinction by the magnitude and rapidity of warming, and much of the planet's surface left uninhabitable to humans.

You don't even need a surface to have an atmospheric greenhouse effect (on a planet like Jupiter for example, any point along a T (p) curve within a convecting layer will be higher than it would be if its atmosphere were totally transparent to thermal radiation).

Another hypothesis proposed by climate disruption deniers for why the surface temperature of Venus is so hot is that Venus might have formed recently (geologically speaking) instead of having formed about 4.5 billion years ago along with the Earth and the rest of the planets.

Since the planet is showing obvious signs that it is the other way round in practice — surface temperature drags the low level air temperature along with it — we are arguing about something that appears to be of rather low importance.