Sentences with phrase «days at the poles»

Because of the long days at the poles in the summer, it's easy to forget what time it is and work past midnight.

The star exhibits strong differential rotation, which varies from 3.0 days at the equator to 3.9 days at the poles (Brogi et al, 2012).

While the Sun does not rotate as a solid body (the rotational period is 25 days at the equator and about 35 days at the poles), it takes approximately 28 days to complete one full rotation; the centrifugal effect of this slow rotation is 18 million times weaker than the surface gravity at the Sun's equator.

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He finally scored his second pole at the 1954 Swiss Grand Prix, back driving for Ferrari, three years, one month and eight days after his first.

He secured his first pole position during that initial on / off stint in F1, at the 1968 United States Grand Prix, but it took him until the 1976 Japanese Grand Prix (driving for Lotus) to return to the front of the grid, eight years and 18 days later.

A draw today and a win at home to Chelsea next weekend will ensure that Arsenal finish the month in pole position and that, at the end of the day, is all that matters.

The two team's records on the 1st January are poles apart, as while Arsenal haven't lost a home league game on this date since 1985, the Eagles have won just one of their last seven league games away from home on New Year's Day which came in 1996 at Portsmouth.

There was a gap of just 14 days between his first pole position at the Monaco GP and his second, which was at the Swiss Grand Prix.

Another driver with a 14 - day gap between their first and second pole positions is Rene Arnoux, who scored them at the 1979 Austrian GP and the Dutch GP respectively with his Renault.

He tried again at the next race in Brazil and was on pole again, meaning there was just a 14 - day interval between his first and second pole positions.

The usually calm and collected French legend takes offence at the insults aimed at him from the towering Italian centre back and then decides to aim a full - throttle headbutt into Materazzi's midriff, leaving him pole - axed on the ground probably wondering what day of the week it was.

Valtteri Bottas» 1:19.320 at the wheel of his Mercedes W08 on day two of the second test (day six overall) was five seconds quicker than the 2015 Spanish GP pole time.

The existence of the pole had been known, but the inhospitable landscape presented a barrier until Amundsen's party made the dangerous trek across ice and snow to stand at the geographical South Pole on this day a century ago.

Modelling the flow of air within the atmospheres of these planets, Carone and her colleagues found that this unusual day - night divide can have a marked effect on the distribution of ozone across the atmosphere: at least for these planets, the major air flow may lead from the poles to the equator, systematically trapping the ozone in the equatorial region.

This makes it possible for the Sun to rotate faster at its equator (about 25 days) than it does at higher latitudes (about 35 days near its poles).

It is flattened at the poles due to a very fast rotation of less than 11 hours per Saturn «day,» but the planet takes 29.5 Earth years to complete an orbit around the Sun.

Exhilarating day today... I pushed through my fear of heights (almost giving up at the first step) and dangled precariously from a selection of poles and ropes 400 feet up (well, over 40 anyway... much like myself!).

While it shouldn't come as a surprise that 81 percent of women and 69 percent of men surveyed said that women are more romantic, their findings showed that Valentine's Day (19 percent) ranked lower on the romance totem pole at 19 percent than an anniversary at 57 percent or even a first date at 24 percent.

In the day, traditional, only people go at a pole or a night club in order to seek the data.

Later in the day, at about 3:30 pm, Walker and another person were killed when their Porsche hit a tree and then a light pole.

If Carl Edwards takes the pole this weekend at Homestead - Miami Speedway, his racing - spec Ford Fusion will be the one to follow another Blue Oval offering — the 2010 Fusion hybrid to be unveiled days...

ELKHART LAKE, Wis. — On a windy day in America's dairyland, Oliver Gavin put America's performance icon on the GT1 pole for Sunday's Generac 500 at Road America.

Gavin Gone with the Wind in Wisconsin, Claims 11th Career ALMS Pole ELKHART LAKE, Wis. — On a windy day in America's dairyland, Oliver Gavin put America's performance icon on the GT1 pole for Sunday's Generac 500 at Road America.

The Memorial Day double header had its moments of success with a pole position and a fastest lap of the race, but a series of unfortunate events prevented the team from repeating its podium success at the Lakeville, Connecticut road course.

On St. Patrick's Day, a sign was posted on a telephone pole at the frontier of the elementary school playground where wood chips gave way to grass and dog - walking parents often...

Our 10 day Off - piste & Backcountry Focus Programme gives you more off - piste and backcountry riding than you can shake a ski pole at!

If you do n`t have sleeping bags, rain ponchos, trekking poles, water bottle, etc you can rent / buy them from SAS Travel at the office at your check - in 2 days before the trek departure.

Being also Indonesia's Independence Day, Kuta Beach was packed with people watching the finals in the late afternoon as the sun went down, while at the same time there were live bands playing, a BMX competition, and the traditional «Panjat Pinang» pole climbing competition.

Several days after the incident Lawrence arrived at the country club, equipped with the odd and slightly gruesome tools of his trade: a fishing rod with a four - pointed hook on the line, a pole tipped with a wire noose, and a roll of electrician's tape.

Compare it to the station situated at the pole (no day - night time variation) http://www.nerc-bas.ac.uk/icd/gjma/amundsen-scott.ann.trend.pdf Isn't the absence of noise there remarkable?

One day, no matter what we do, this cool period we're in now will end and we'll have to contend with palm trees on the North Slope and in Siberial, and NO Ice at the poles.

Those numbers are meaningless as the average temperature of the surface of the Moon is between 80 °C on the lit face and -200 °C on the dark face and averaged over a lunar day it's 98 K at the poles and 206 K at the equator.

Last week there were 10 days above freezing for at least part of the day at this weather station, just 440 miles from the north pole.

The average solar radiation at the poles is 36 % higher in summer at the poles because of a 24 hour day.

4 B. Earth's Tilt and Rotation Axis — imaginary line running from pole to pole Earth rotates around this Makes one rotation every 24 hours Makes Day & Night Earth is tilted at approx. 23 1/2 degrees Tilt affects climate of a place

Even at the end of June, although at the pole the sun may be shining 24 hrs a day, it won't get much above 24deg above the horizon (allowing for a bit of wobble).

Among the twenty - plus fixed instruments at the compound, a VirtualTourist member noted that his favorite was the Jai Praksh Yantra, a pair of hemispheres made from marble and sunken into the ground that is capable of determining both the ecliptic pole during the day and the celestial coordinates at night.