Sentences with phrase «atmosphere on a trajectory»

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A «last kiss goodbye» with Saturn's largest moon sent the Cassini spacecraft on its final trajectory into the planet's atmosphere.

Most of the defense systems are intended to work as a missile passes out of the atmosphere, during the midcourse phase, because once you're above the atmosphere things move on a predictable trajectory.

On its current trajectory, Cassini has also taken the first - ever in - situ samples of Saturn's atmosphere, and Linda Spilker, the Cassini project scientist, said those early results suggest that the chemical and dynamic interactions between particles from the planet's rings and the planet's upper atmosphere are «more complex... than we had both anticipated.»

Essentially, China and India, the emerging giants in the global greenhouse, are saying that any extra costs for them to divert from established trajectories for carbon dioxide emissions as they pursue prosperity must be covered by the established industrial powers, which still have many times greater emissions on a per - capita basis and spent a century freely adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere in building their wealth.

But despite pledging to avoid «dangerous» interference with the climate system through the buildup of greenhouse gases, the 192 countries that ratified that treaty are still on a trajectory to more than double the pre-industrial concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in this century.

Homeyer will use a trajectory model and information on winds in the atmosphere, then put particles or little air bubbles in places where the storms occur, move them around with the winds and watch as they move downstream to find locations where air masses from storms coincide with satellite observations.

This puts emissions on a long - term trajectory consistent with stabilizing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere at around 650 parts per million CO2 equivalent, suggesting a long - term temperature rise of over 3.5 [degrees Celsius].»