Sentences with phrase «before reaching the surface»

Smaller satellites burn up completely before reaching the surface.

Seeds only have so much energy stored before they need to generate more from light, so plant them too deep and they will run out of energy before they reach the surface.

The controversial approach, known as stratospheric aerosol injection, is designed to effectively cool the Earth's surface by reflecting some sunlight before it reaches the surface.

His colleague, Marie de Angelis of Humboldt State University in California, reported evidence that most of the methane oxidizes to carbon dioxide before it reaches the surface.

In most cases the magma stalls or stops before it reaches the surface.

In deeper parts of the ocean, the methane released from the ocean floor would likely never make it up to the atmosphere, since it would get used up by microbes before it reached the surface.

A possible answer: The magnetic field is strong where the churning core generates it, but the layer of electrically conducting iron sulfide partially screens out and weakens the field before it reaches the surface.

The orbiter is still circling the Red Planet after more than a decade in space, but lander Beagle 2 lost contact with Earth in December 2003 before it reached the surface.

There are no small craters because small meteoroids burn up in the dense atmosphere before reaching the ground, and the bunching of craters suggest that large meteoroids usually break up before reach the surface.

These acids work the same way in serum - form, except they're able to treat bumps before they reach the surface of the skin and take shape.

Having an effective plan of attack for treating pimples before they reach the surface can help keep your breakouts minimal.

In deep water, methane gas oxidizes into carbon dioxide before it reaches the surface.

If it was deeper it would allow methane to oxidize in the water column [before reaching the surface].»

Jason Box, a widely published climatologist, has been closely following the SWERUS - C3 expedition, and is concerned - based on observations - that some of these methane bubbles are not being dissolved or consumed by microorganisms before reaching the surface.

One possible explanation is that BP's use of chemical dispersants to break up the oil before it reaches the surface could reduce its buoyancy, keeping it in underwater.

The paint spray dries before reaching the surface and it can not level because of too rapid evaporation.

If it's too windy and you're using an aerosol paint, your paint may dissipate before it reaches the surface.

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Additionally, the $ 30 million Google Lunar X Prize has initiated competition to reach the lunar surface by 2015, and like many competitions before, is spurring the creation of an entirely new industry, this time for lunar services.

Moon Express has a ways to go before it can reach the lunar surface, which it hopes to do next year.

Production growth has stalled before in the 1990s, but this time I suspect that a production limit has been reached and it is easier now for China to import surface mined coal from Indonesia and Australia.

1) Sift the flour into a mixing bowl 2) Add the salt to the flour, mixing together 3) Add the olive oil, mixing as you add to ensure the flour envelopes the oil 4) Add warm water bit by bit until dough reaches the right consistency 5) One the dough ready, roll it into a ball, and knead well on a cool, flat surface 6) Flatten the dough with a wooden rolling pin 7) Cut into 10 cm pieces and roll them long enough and evenly 8) Place the pin - shaped dough on a well - greased baking tray 9) Bake in oven at 175 deg cel (medium heat for gas ovens) for 20 -30 minutes or until the sticks are ready (test by breaking off a small piece to check that the inside is well cooked) 10) Allow to cool for 5 minutes before serving

Even before he's reached this milestone, it's a good idea to keep a very close eye on his movements when he's on high surfaces.

And practice, practice, practice: sitting down, standing on a very soft surface, wearing baby with another responsible adult in arms reach... all before you wear your baby out in the real world.

This must have happened before the atmosphere contained much oxygen, because once the gas formed a primitive ozone layer, very intense light no longer reached Earth's surface.

Data received before the cut - off suggests the drill had reached 25 centimetres below the spacecraft, but with Philae standing in a precarious position, with one leg in the air, the drill may not make it to the surface to take a sample.

«We have been able to derive a proxy for sea surface temperatures that reaches back long before humans were able to make such measurements, and long before humans began to affect Earth's climate,» Thompson said.

This occurred when, during initial tongue protrusion, one of the groove tips adhered to the feeder wall before the tip reached the surface of the nectar pool and the groove tip bent as the tongue continued to move forward.

There's also a primary reflection, which bounces off of one surface before reaching the listener, and the secondary reflections that bounce off of two,» Austin says.

Although the researchers did not examine in this study what prevents methane released from the seafloor from reaching the atmosphere, they suspect it is biodegraded by microorganisms in the ocean before it hits the surface waters.

Other tests indicate that the long - lost peak — now dubbed Kaena volcano — grew from the sea floor and broke through the ocean's surface about 3.5 million years ago, eventually reaching a height of about 1000 meters above sea level before it began sinking back into the sea.

Natural global warming is self - rectifying either by slow chemical weathering processes responsible for mineral sequestration of carbon or by gradual return of Earth's orbital parameters to what they were before the onset of global warming, thereby significantly reducing the amount of solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface.

You can tell when you have reached trace when your mixture is still fluid, but a drop or drizzle of the soap mixture stays on the surface for a few seconds before falling back in.

Just as seeds need a period of gestation before they break through the soil and reach for the sunlight, we need time to cultivate our ideas and clear the way for our visions before they can surface into reality.

► After a man follows a woman into a dark room we see him walking into what looks like a pool of liquid and then disappears under the surface; we see the man floating under the surface and we see another man whose flesh is bloated and loose, the second man reaches for the other man and touches his hand before he pops and his flesh (it looks like a snake skin) billows in the liquid.

April 20, 2018 • A champion of electronic music long before it surfaced from New York's underground dance scene, Moby's latest record reaches for the vastness of the human experience with that same frenetic energy.

Surface irregularities are mostly filtered before they reach the occupants.

While most bumps and thuds disintegrate before even reaching the cabin's padding, rougher surfaces are bound to fill the cabin with unwanted noise, but I still can't stick the «loudmouth» label on the suspension, not when trips on A and B roads resemble a magic carpet ride.

The player simply moves their ship along the top edge of the playing surface in an attempt to shoot all the oncoming enemies before they shoot you or reach the top edge and capture you.

Adding CO2 does not (at least not before the climate response, which is generally stratospheric cooling and surface and tropospheric warming for increasing greenhouse gases) decrease the radiation to space in the central portion of the band because at those wavelengths, CO2 is so opaque that much or most radiation to space is coming from the stratosphere, and adding CO2 increases the heights from which radiation is able to reach space, and the stratospheric temperatures generally increase with increasing height.

The gold surface the nanocars race across must reach about 200 °C before buckyballs start turning.

Before that could happen, the atmosphere would be so full of cloud, which would prevent solar flux reaching the surface, that the maximum surface temperature would be much less than 100C.

He skirts the pond until he reaches the far side and before he comes to a stop starts casting his weighted, barbed hook across the glassy surface and reeling it in.

If you put more CO2, say, into the stratosphere then that doesn't change how much sunlight reaches the Earth's surface much and the surface warms up as much as before.

where depending on the wind direction and time of year, the air that the temperature sensor monitors may transit a dirt road, crops, or other land surface varations, each with a different surface heat budget., before reaching the temperature observing site.

After a nuclear blast, however, loads of black smoke would settle into the upper atmosphere and absorb sunlight before it reaches our planet's surface.

Typically when sunlight travels through the atmosphere, some rays get absorbed by particles in the air, before reaching Earth's surface.

Before ice can form on the surface, the entire water column must first reach 40 F, which is likely to first occur along the shoreline.

Natural global warming is self - rectifying either by slow chemical weathering processes responsible for mineral sequestration of carbon or by gradual return of Earth's orbital parameters to what they were before the onset of global warming, thereby significantly reducing the amount of solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface.

There are those who appear to steadfastly maintain that all thermal radiation is from the surface and the and the convection return flow, which must heat at the dry adiabatic rate of 9.8 deg C per 1000 meters going down — unless it is gobbling up condensed water vapor on the way, and reach the surface before it can be cooled again.

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