Sentences with phrase «energy ultraviolet radiation»

[9] Any intact lava tube on the Moon could serve as a shelter from the severe environment of the lunar surface, with its frequent meteorite impacts, high - energy ultraviolet radiation and energetic particles, and extreme diurnal temperature variations.

While lower - energy ultraviolet radiation breaks up water molecules — a process called photodissociation — ultraviolet rays with more energy (XUV radiation) and X-rays heat the upper atmosphere of a planet, which allows the products of photodissociation, hydrogen and oxygen, to escape.

Not exact matches

The supernova explosions that create and spread heavy elements also unleash a torrent of high - energy radiation: gamma rays, X-rays, and ultraviolet light.

They can also be used for biological labeling because of their low toxicity, chemical stability, and intense luminescence when excited by near - IR radiation, which can penetrate tissue much better than higher energy radiation such as ultraviolet, as is often required with quantum dot labels.

But Alex Dessler, a space physicist at the University of Arizona, Tucson, says the same area of the planet also produces unusual radio signals, flares of ultraviolet light, and high levels of infrared radiation and even seems to be correlated with a patch in Jupiter's magnetosphere that pumps out high - energy electrons.

Despite 70 years of trying, scientists still can not fully explain how a bubble of air in water focuses acoustic energy a trillionfold to spit out picosecond bursts of ultraviolet radiation.

Sunlight contains low - energy photons (infrared light) and high - energy photons (sunburn - causing ultraviolet radiation), as well as all of the visible light in between.

Another trick is to design a photovoltaic cell that allows visible light to pass through while collecting energy from infrared and ultraviolet radiation.

The formation of a stratosphere layer in a planet's atmosphere is attributed to «sunscreen» - like molecules, which absorb ultraviolet (UV) and visible radiation coming from the star and then release that energy as heat.

Early Earth lacked an ozone layer to act as a shield against high - energy solar radiation, but microbes flourished by adapting to or finding other forms of protection from the higher ultraviolet radiation levels.

The energy from the sun is called ultraviolet or UV radiation, and it reaches Earth in two forms: in UVA and UVB rays.

In addition to thermal energy, the sun also produces high levels of ultraviolet radiation that many herp species use for specific physiological functions.

The Earth receives energy from the Sun in the form of visible light and ultraviolet radiation, which is then re-radiated away from the surface as thermal radiation in infrared wavelengths.

Although only 1 percent of the sun's energy is emitted at ultraviolet wavelengths between 200 and 300 nanometers, the decrease in this radiation from 1 July 1981 to 30 June 1985 accounted for 19 percent of the decrease in the total irradiance over the same period.»

The Met Office state «The «greenhouse effect» is the way the atmosphere traps some of the energy we receive from the Sun (infrared radiation or heat, ultraviolet and visible light) and stops it being transmitted back out into space».

Of this energy, 527 watts is infrared radiation, 445 watts is visible light, and 32 watts is ultraviolet radiation.»

Here is where Myrrh seems to be making his big mistake: in the Nasa link he gives, is the following quote: «Incoming ultraviolet, visible, and a limited portion of infrared energy (together sometimes called «shortwave radiation»)»

Energy transfer in the form of electromagnetic waves includes infrared radiation, visible light, and ultraviolet rays.

Solar energy enters our atmosphere as shortwave radiation in the form of ultraviolet (UV) rays (the ones that give us sunburn) and visible light.

The small amount of this high energy, ultraviolet radiation that normally reaches Earth's surface is responsible for sunburn, skin cancer, cataracts, and damage to genetic material.

Low solar activity sees the atmosphere above the South Pole cool both directly with less solar radiant energy and as reduced ozone warming by solar ultraviolet radiation.

Earth receives energy that travels from the sun in a variety of wavelengths, some of which we see as sunlight and others that are invisible to the naked eye, such as shorter - wavelength ultraviolet radiation and longer - wavelength infrared radiation.

The greenhouse effect works like this: Energy arrives from the sun in the form of visible light and ultraviolet radiation.

You tell me what business, what economy, what country can operate without air, water, food, energy, material, climate control regulation, an ultraviolet radiation shield, pollination, seed dispersal, water purification and distribution through the hydrological cycle, flood control, and insect control.