Sentences with phrase «faster earth moves»

The faster Earth moves, the more dark - matter detections it would make, and so the number of flashes detected would vary throughout the year.

How fast the Earth moves around the sun can tell you the star's mass, he explained.

Not exact matches

Let us first be kind and set aside natural phenomena like a bolt of lightning, which is 1.7 million times faster than the car, or Halley's comet, which approaches Earth moving at some 240,000 km / hour.

The recent «These neutrinos are moving through the Earth faster than light oh wait nevermind this fibre cable was loose» at CERN is a good example of that.

We know because tides leave behind evidence, and we can use that evidence to determine how far the moon was from Earth, as well as how fast it was moving at the time.

Some atoms and molecules near the top of our atmosphere are simply moving so fast they overcome Earth's gravitational tug.

EARTH»S insides may move at a creep, but diamonds ride the fast track.

However, the project isn't moving as fast as hoped for multiple reasons — Good Earth Power blames slow progress on issues like bad weather and a regional dearth of forest industry infrastructure like trucking capacity, but others are skeptical of the company's overall business plan.

The area within is like the space around Earth and the other planets: a region flooded by the solar wind, a fast - moving outward stream of particles from the sun.

Some bacteria, plants and small animals called tardigrades are known to be able to survive in space, so it is possible that such organisms — if present in Earth's upper atmosphere — might collide with fast - moving space dust and withstand a journey to another planet.

Fast - moving flows of interplanetary dust that continually bombard our planet's atmosphere could deliver tiny organisms from far - off worlds, or send Earth - based organisms to other planets, according to the research.

However, NASA spacecraft detected a much larger eruption last weekend on the backside of the sun headed away from Earth, generating a much faster - moving cloud.

Variations in the wind speed and the weight of the particles caused some parts of the cloud to travel faster or slower than others, and so the cloud spread as it moved around Earth, until it covered the equator with an almost imperceptible veil of dust and sulfurous particles.

«Don't think of this as plate tectonics, where the Earth's crust is moving and we just need to figure out how fast it's moving,» Cutler said.

Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere protect us on the ground from most of the harmful effects of space weather, but astronauts in low - Earth orbit — or even, one day, in interplanetary space — are more exposed to space weather, including bursts of fast - moving particles called solar energetic particles, or SEPs.

Nomura states that superdistant galaxies are moving away from Earth faster than the speed of light and therefore can not be observed, a limit called the cosmological horizon.

The meteor also created a sonic boom, which occurs when an object moves faster than sound waves in Earth's atmosphere.

The astronomers calculated that the black hole is moving so fast it would travel from Earth to the moon in three minutes.

«It's a true firestorm — extremely fast moving, generating its own weather conditions, and burning literally everything in its path,» Daniel Swain, a climate earth system scientist at Stanford University, said.

They found that the ice might travel at up to 600 metres an hour, far faster than glaciers move on Earth (Astrophysical Journal Letters, doi.org/cmvc).

The research model predicts slightly elevated heat flux upstream of several fast - flowing glaciers in Greenland, including Jakobshavn Isbræ in the central - west, the fastest moving glacier on Earth.

Because the jet features are moving toward Earth at almost the same speed as the radio waves they emit, they can appear to move across the sky at faster - than - light speeds.

If sand - moving winds on Mars occurred as frequently as they occur on Earth, Mars dunes would move 10 times faster than Earth?s dunes,?

Although two clouds are pushed by the jets in opposite directions away from the core, the cloud moving toward the Earth appears to be 15 times brighter and moving two times as fast as the cloud moving away from us.

Its speed of over 25 miles a year is three times faster than the typical speed of liquid in the outer core and hundreds of thousands of times faster than the speed at which Earth's tectonic plates move.

These fast - moving bands of winds are found in the upper levels of the atmosphere and are created due to Earth's rotation, and its air being warmed up by solar radiation.

To maintain Mercury's tight inner orbit around the Sun, the planet must move much faster than Earth needs to in its more distant Solar orbit so that a spacecraft must gain about 65,000 miles per hour (105,000 km per hour) to «catch» it.

The faster the supernova was moving away, the more its light waves were «stretched» as they traveled toward Earth.

In this latest detection, the change in a star's velocity — rhythmically moving toward and then away from Earth — is only 36 feet per second, a little faster than a human sprints.

Rush it: just because its Valentine's Day doesn't mean you need to hit the fast forward button on a budding romance... getting to know each other at a pace that feels natural is more important than feeling compelled to make the earth move on Valentine's Day.

Some stories are dreams, some nightmares, most slide into grotesque and melancholy, and all are simple, down - to - earth, intellectual fun told in a wry, fast moving ahead voice.

If you're in a fast moving market, instantaneous order entry could be the difference between a tiny loss and an earth shattering one if the trade were to move against you.

At the poles the earth and atmosphere hardly rotate at the equator they are obviously moving faster.

Do photons from the surface of the earth heat up the CO2 molecules that absorb them (where heating up would mean making them move faster), and transmit this heat to other air molecules by collision.

Also the buildup of pressure behind the «slipped» air causes some streams of air to move faster and play catch up moving in the same direction as the earth's spin... West to East.

Rather, as the air moves north, the west - to - east rotation of the earth underneath it becomes increasingly fast, making the air blow to the west relative to the earth even though the air itself has little motion.

> The Earth might not move that fast [I'm referring to a quote by the authors who mainly blame the Sun] and handwaving unknown abrupt forcings might be suboptimal here.

They sent up a satellite with a very accurate clock, to test the theory that an object moving faster than another relative object (the earth in this case) would experience a slowdown of time.

The jet stream is a fast - moving river of air high in the atmosphere that generates the weather we experience at the Earth's surface.

If the oceans rise then the Earth should slow down, and if the oceans subside then the Earth should spin faster just like a skater moving her arms in and out.

Imagine, like Dr. Evil, you have access to a giant, tunable laser located on a giant, fast moving hover ship, and you can radiate the Earths surface with, on average, 10 W / m2 of radiation.

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I.e. pushing the high altitude air flow off from the equator does not lead only to the fact that the air moves faster than surface below but to the fact that it's absolute speed increases maintaining the same angular momentum around the Earth axis with a smaller radius.

Okay, I know they are traveling extremely fast, circling the earth in 90 minutes, yet for some reason, I always thought it didn't take much energy to move things once they're in the vacuum of

The need to move fast in dealing with the UK's stock of poorly heated houses is highlighted in a report, sponsored by Friends of the Earth, out today.

If members of Friends of the Earth continue to call and write their representatives in Congress, we can with our broad coalition of allies stop any move to slip the Fast Track bill through in the final, chaotic days of this congressional session in December.

And, just as a moving hand is more likely than a stationary one to encounter and flip a switch, faster earth - system changes — whether natural or human - caused — are likely to increase the probability of encountering a threshold that triggers a still faster climate shift.

These artificial materials are engineered with properties that wouldn't normally exist in nature, and in the case of IV's new spin - off Kymeta they would be used to manipulate way satellite waves connect to fast - moving objects on the Earth's surface.