Sentences with phrase «excess heating of the planet»

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On some missions, such as NASA's Curiosity Mars rover (now deep into its third Earth year seeking signs of habitable conditions on the Red Planet), the excess heat from the MMRTG can also be used to keep spacecraft systems warm in cold environments.

More than 90 percent of the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gas emissions has been absorbed into the oceans that cover two - thirds of the planet's surface.

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.

That's trapping excess heat and causing the surface of the planet to warm.

However, surface warming accounts for only about 7 percent of the excess heat our planet is taking on.