Sentences with phrase «atmosphere than the planet»

We're putting more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than the planet can absorb.

Venus has over 105, closing in on 106, times as much carbon dioxide in its atmosphere than planet earth.

Not exact matches

Who knows, there might be other life forms out there on planets with differnt types of suns, other types of atmosphere, maybe even based on something other than carbon... Religion can't answer those questions, but science, ever so slowly, is plugging away at the answers.

As one of the group's leaders, Hsu Jen - hsiu, rightly says eating less or no meat is a way to love our planet because livestock emit large volumes of methane into the atmosphere, which contribute more to global warming than the emissions produced by all the vehicles around the world.

In 2007, the tiny Comet Holmes grew and expanded so much that the gassy diameter of the comet's coma, or atmosphere, became larger than the diameter of the sun, with particles reaching all of the planets.

The fires were costly for the rest of the planet, too: At their peak, the blazes belched more climate - warming carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each day than did all U.S. economic activity.

Although NASA has neglected Venus in favor of regular Mars missions (see graphic, above), Venus Express, a European mission that ended in 2014, observed the motion and structure of Venus's atmosphere, which whips around the planet 60 times faster than it rotates.

A lost generation of planets may now be no more than a whiff of pollution in the atmospheres of their dead parent stars.

But planet hunting is in its infancy, and astronomer Dimitar Sasselov estimates that our galaxy harbors some 100 million «super-Earths,» large rocky planets whose stable atmospheres and complex chemistry actually make them mathematically better candidates for the emergence of life than our own small world.

Kasting adds that far - out planets will be fainter and harder to see than close - in planets, so finding these distant worlds will be more difficult, as will studying their atmospheres.

However, a new study of the atmosphere suggests that clouds may have kept the planet cool enough to preserve the Venusian sea for billions of years — far longer than previously thought.

All the water contained in its atmosphere, he adds, would be about slightly more than one inch (2.5 centimeters) deep if it were on the planet's surface.

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?

The feeble glow of microwaves from the sun is absorbed by our air on the way down, anyway, so unless the core somehow also strips off Earth's atmosphere — in which case we have bigger problems than solar radiation — we should be safe enough from microwaves if our planet's center stops spinning.

When that materialmostly particles no larger than grains of sandcomes into contact with our planet's atmosphere it burns up, creating meteors, or shooting stars.

That's when mission planners project radio communications will be lost with the two - ton, bus - size spacecraft as it plunges into the giant planet's turbulent atmosphere at more than 122,000 kilometers per hour.

When the work is complete, researchers will piece together a systemwide view of the marine environments that cover more than two - thirds of the planet, bringing into focus the interrelationships among the seafloor, the water, and the atmosphere.

Akatsuki's 2 - year mission aims to peel away some of the mystery of Venus's dense, cloudy atmosphere, which sweeps over the planet at speeds exceeding 300 kilometers per hour, or 60 times faster than Venus itself rotates.

Earth's atmosphere behaves in the same way, keeping the planet's average temperature at 59 degrees Fahrenheit rather than the chilly zero degrees it would be if our world were airless.

Short - lived climate pollutants are so called because even though they warm the planet more efficiently than carbon dioxide, they only remain in the atmosphere for a period of weeks to roughly a decade whereas carbon dioxide molecules remain in the atmosphere for a century or more.

Swain is principal investigator of the Fast Infrared Exoplanet Spectroscopy Survey Explorer (Finesse), a proposed 30 - inch space telescope that would probe more than 200 planets around nearby stars to learn about their atmospheres and how they formed.

At another extreme, Saturn's giant moon Titan seems more like a planet in its own right, larger than Mercury and cloaked in a dense atmosphere.

Although both worlds are similar in size and density, our planetary neighbor has temperatures so high they can melt lead, winds that whip around it some 60 times faster than the planet itself rotates and an atmosphere that slams down with more than 90 times the pressure found on Earth's atmosphere.

Whizzing 200 miles above the Martian surface at 2.2 miles per second, it will pick out finer surface details on Mars than commercial satellites can show us on Earth, where cameras have to ride twice as far above the ground to avoid our planet's thicker atmosphere.

Already, the planet's average temperature has warmed by 0.7 degree C, which is «very likely» (greater than 90 percent certain) to be a result of the rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Because space is above the blurring and attenuation effects of Earth's atmosphere, it is a better place than our planet to collect an exoplanet's chemical or spectral information.

Although the influence of Saturnian storms was known to be substantial, this study suggests an even wider influence than expected, and confirms a connection between Saturn's QPO and remote, distinct events occurring elsewhere in the planet's atmosphere.

Its atmosphere was confirmed in 1988 when the planet passed in front of a star and dimmed the star's light gradually rather than abruptly (New Scientist, Science, 30 June 1988).

Two worlds, other than the Earth and Pluto, have nitrogen atmospheres, but they are moons rather than planets: Titan, Saturn's biggest moon, and Triton.

But researchers are excited because, at just 4.25 light - years away, the planet may be within reach of telescopes and techniques that could reveal more about its composition and atmosphere than that of any other exoplanet discovered to date.

Kepler - 13Ab's strong surface gravity — six times greater than Jupiter's — then pulls the titanium oxide snow out of the upper atmosphere and traps it in the lower atmosphere on the nighttime side of the planet.

As sunlight passes through Earth's atmosphere, air molecules refract the light, scattering blue light more effectively than red, leaving red to fill our planet's shadow.

To date more than half of all landing attempts on Mars have failed, in part due to the complex procedures required to successfully decelerate through the planet's thin atmosphere.

For the dwarf planet Pluto, however, the predicted temperature based on the composition of its atmosphere was much higher than actual measurements taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in 2015.

Its atmosphere absorbs each band by a different amount, so the planet looks larger in some wavelengths than in others.

Bigger than the planet Mercury, it has a thick, opaque atmosphere; complex weather; and lakes of liquid natural gas.

Chemicals found in Martian rocks by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover suggest the Red Planet once had more oxygen in its atmosphere than it does now.

Whereas the greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere will contribute to warming the planet for many decades to come, Ramanathan says, the good news about warming agents such as black carbon is that they don't linger in the atmosphere for more than a few weeks.

HD 189733b's atmosphere appears to be thinning 25 percent to 65 percent faster than it would be if the planet's atmosphere were smaller.

Most planets» temperatures are set by the gas content of their atmospheres, since certain gases trap heat from the sun more efficiently than others (SN Online: 6/8/15).

Other data indicate that Jupiter's magnetic field is nearly 50 % stronger than previously suspected in some places, hinting that the movement of electrically charged particles deep in the planet's atmosphere may rise closer to the cloudtops than previously presumed.

Radiation levels on the ISS are 100 times greater than on Earth because the station is not protected by the planet's atmosphere and magnetic field.

Compared to other hot Jupiters, this planet's atmosphere likely would contain 300 times more «metals,» or elements heavier than hydrogen and helium.

The new evidence has the potential to alter perceptions about which planets in the universe could sustain life and may mean that humans are having an even greater impact on levels of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere than accepted evidence from climate history studies of ice cores suggests.

He and his team modelled Earth's climate, and found that adding large quantities of CO2 to the atmosphere — far more even than what we're doing now — could also heat the planet until it leaks water.

The planet is significantly hotter and a bit larger than Earth, so one possibility is that it is a «water world» with an atmosphere of hot steam.»

Beneath its thick atmosphere, the surface of Venus is much hotter and at a higher pressure than that of our planet, making its land surface hard to interpret.

Second, to find a planet like Earth, and especially to see it directly rather than just detecting it by the wobble caused by its gravitational pull on its sun, the array of telescopes used to create the interferometer would have to be launched into space to get them above our planet's murky atmosphere.

This marks the first detection of an atmosphere around an Earth - like planet other than Earth itself, and thus is a significant step on the path towards the detection of life outside our Solar System.

MAUNA KEA, HI — A primitive ocean on Mars once held more water than Earth's Arctic Ocean, according to NASA scientists who measured signatures of water in the planet's atmosphere using the most powerful telescopes on Earth including the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii.