Sentences with phrase «atmosphere over the pole»

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Overall, Saturn's atmosphere seems fairly static over time — even the surprising hexagon - shaped jet stream over the north pole has changed little, Cassini showed, since Voyager first sighted it.

Over the past decade, NASA has sent the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to map the Moon; the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite to crash land near the south pole in search of water; the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory to plumb the Moon's gravity field; and the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) to study its tenuous outer aAtmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) to study its tenuous outer atmosphereatmosphere.

Over its 10 - year life span, the spacecraft observed the Martian surface and atmosphere repeatedly, exposing details — like the shrinking carbon dioxide ice cap on the south pole — that would have been lost to onetime measurements.

Previous surveys by Cassini have found that winds whip through the atmosphere over Saturn's north pole at more than 500 kilometers per hour — 30 percent faster than any gust ever recorded in a cyclone on Earth.

In a paper published today in the journal Nature Geoscience, atmospheric scientists at MIT propose a possible mechanism for Saturn's polar cyclones: Over time, small, short - lived thunderstorms across the planet may build up angular momentum, or spin, within the atmosphere — ultimately stirring up a massive and long - lasting vortex at the poles.

Aurorae over Earth's poles are the product of charged particles streaming from the sun and colliding with atoms and molecules in the upper atmosphere.

Scientists analyzing data from NASA's Cassini mission have discovered that a giant, toxic cloud is hovering over the south pole of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, after the atmosphere there cooled dramatically.

Polar stratospheric injection of sulphur is probably the technique we'll end up trying, but keeping your feet warm (tropics) and head cool (poles) while adding thick blankets (GHGs) over your whole body is a difficult task when the pesky atmosphere keeps scattering your AC units (sulphur)

The measurements at MLO, Barrow, Samoa, south pole represent 95 % of the atmosphere, where only seasonal variations and a continuous increase are seen, not (or limited) the influence of local / regional biological decay or uptake, car exhausts or chimneys as in 5 % of the atmosphere over land where such variations are measured for other reasons than a global CO2 level...

The temperature at the poles of Venus (over 720K) can not be explained by any «runaway greenhouse effect» because there is less than 1W / m ^ 2 from the Sun that gets through the Venus atmosphere to the surface at the poles.

Although radiation to space occurs over the whole planet there is a general movement of heat from equator to poles via the oceans and atmosphere.

The CO2 wavelengths always look like the tropopause temperatures no matter if they are measured over the desert or the poles, which tells us we are seeing emissions from high in the atmosphere, not re-emitted near the surface.

If we had a continent over both poles at the same time we'd probably get a snowball earth episode that would last until either CO2 built up in the atmosphere to melt it or the continents drifted off the poles or some combination of both.

Over long time periods, this tropical heat uptake is roughly balanced by heat release from the ocean to the atmosphere in other regions closer to the poles.

«The high rotation of the planet — about 10 hours for a complete turn around its axis — and the heat coming from the lower levels of the atmosphere certainly have a great impact to the formation of the cyclonic pattern we have observed over the Jupiter's poles,» he told Digital Trends.