Sentences with phrase «cold than the moon»

Yet the Earth and the moon are virtually the same distance from the sun, so why do we experience much less heat and cold than the moon?

Not exact matches

«We found that the coldest places near the moon's south pole are also the brightest places — brighter than we would expect from soil alone — and that might indicate the presence of surface frost,» said Elizabeth Fisher, the lead author of the study, published in Icarus.

«Ceres has just enough mass to hold on to water molecules, and the permanently shadowed regions we identified are extremely cold — colder than most that exist on the moon or Mercury.»

Also fusion power could be a lot more accessible than we think, if we establish Helium - 3 collection on the moon (seems there's a good source of the non-radioactive ion up there) and then use it in reasonably cold fusion into Lithium in orbiting power plants.

The moon landings were spurred by cold war rivalries and Rees said the energy challenge would provide its own motivation: «I find it hard to imagine anything more inspiring for engineers than to provide clean energy for the world.»

The atmosphere combined with the difference in absorptivity / emissivity and rotation leads to the moon having an average temperature around 60 K colder than we find here.

This heat builds up after several decades and releases that excess over the following decades: cold then hot, cold again then hot again, these synods, also called grand planetary alignments, are of different strengths due to the varying perihelia and aphelia of the four gas giants, especially Jupiter which is the closest to the Sun and more massive than all other Solar System's planets and moons combined.

In general I agree with your assessment of the GHE on the moon paper, but we were discussing the question of why the moon is colder than the blackbody predication would have it be.

The moon's temperatures on the «sunny side» are MUCH higher than Earths (and its shadow side is much colder than Earths) because it has no atmosphere to moderate it's heating and cooling.

So evaporation, condensation, freezing and melting would moderate temperature gradients on earth somewhat compared to the moon So, lack of greenhouse effects on the earth would result in a colder surface than we see; that's not controversial.

I'm not sure how much and I'm not sure the claimed net effect is even true because the moon's surface also gets much colder than the earth's and then the delta - t is lower than the earth and heat loss slows.