Sentences with phrase «dark side of the planet»

As a result the surface is much hotter on the near side than on the far side, and the most habitable zone would be the intermediate area between the light and dark sides of the planet.

The gauzy rings of Saturn and the dark side of the planet glow in newly released infrared images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

[Response: weaker cosmic ray flux - > fewer low clouds - > decrease in sunlight reflected back to space), then you need to explain why the night temperatures appear to increase faster then day temperatures (for any amplification mechanism involving te albedo, you'd expect the opposite, as there is no sunlight to reflect on the dark side of the planet...).

To observe certain astronomical events, especially ones that only last for a short period of time, observatories around the world need to coordinate with each other so that somebody is always watching on the dark side of the planet, said Kasliwal.

A long - standing mystery of Venus observations is the so - called «ashen light» — an apparent weak illumination of the dark side of the planet, seen when the planet is in the crescent phase.

When scientists model radiation from the earth atmosphere to space, what temperature do they use for the temperature of space on the dark side of the planet?

KIA: When scientists model radiation from the earth atmosphere to space, what temperature do they use for the temperature of space on the dark side of the planet?

This means that the proposed CO2 greenhouse effect there would have to boost the tiny 2.5 % of Venus» incident solar radiation to heat BOTH the sunny side and the dark side of the planet to its immense average temperature of over 700K!