Sentences with phrase «faster than a satellite»

Kallivayalil found that the Large and Small Magellanic clouds are shooting by us at around 200 miles per second, faster than a satellite would.

The land - only «amplification» factor was actually close to 0.95 (+ / -0.07, 95 % uncertainty in an individual simulation arising from fitting a linear trend), implying that you should be expecting that land surface temperatures to rise (slightly) faster than the satellite values.

And I have seen quite large clouds appear and disappear faster than the satellites pass overhead.

Not exact matches

Fibre - optic cables carry more data, faster and with less interference than satellites.

«But these new satellite constellations will only be 750 miles up, so signals could even travel faster than with fiber optics.

As the satellite traces out a 1.5 - hour - long orbit, a characteristic rise and fall in the difference between the two applied voltages would indicate that one of the cylinders is falling slightly faster than the other — and signal a violation of the equivalence principle.

What makes the case of Google Street View and the mapping of Fort Sam Houston unique is precisely that it involved not overhead satellite imagery but rather cameras on the ground, raising more questions about Pentagon control as technology develops faster than the government's ability — or authority — to regulate it.

Previous work by Hook using satellite data indicated that many lake temperatures were warming faster than air temperature and that the greatest warming was observed at high latitudes, as seen in other climate warming studies.

Hundreds of thousands of pieces of spacecraft, satellites and other equipment from human spaceflight zip around our planet, some travelling faster than the speed of sound.

New analysis of satellite data, reported today in Science, shows that deforestation on the island is hurtling on faster even than a pessimistic projection made by the World Bank 2 years ago.

In 2006, satellite data suggested the ice sheet was disappearing three times faster than previously thought.

When researchers compared the two sets of canyons using satellite imagery, they found that the windswept canyons were longer, smoother, and had grown 10 times faster than the still canyons over the millions of years since the rock first formed, they report online today in Nature Geoscience.

A ground - based telescope that can scan the skies faster than any other of its size could help to protect satellites from collisions with space debris and each other.

They can fly more frequently and for less money to hone novel concepts, potentially unlocking new products, services, customers and markets faster and cheaper than any traditional satellite system.

This allows the satellite to see more of the sky at a much faster rate than its predecessor, the Energetic Gamma - Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET), which NASA launched in 1991 on board the Compton Gamma - Ray Observatory.

(Suborbital means the vehicle can fly only to a lower altitude than is necessary to start orbiting the Earth — it would have to travel higher, and faster, to reach altitudes achieved by orbiting satellites or the International Space Station, for example.)

For instance, a clock aboard an orbiting satellite advances slightly faster than a counterpart on Earth's surface.

A new paper published in the Journal of Climate reveals that the lower part of the Earth's atmosphere has warmed much faster since 1979 than scientists relying on satellite data had previously thought.

published in the Journal of Climate reveals that the lower part of the Earth's atmosphere has warmed much faster since 1979 than scientists relying on satellite data had previously thought.

New data compiled from a range of sources — from Navy submarines to satellites — suggests that thinning is happening much faster than models have estimated, according to a study aiming to link those disparate data sources for the first time.

Comparing them to satellite data, they found that the Greenland ice sheet was losing mass 8 percent faster than previous estimates.

Patsy S. Tinsley, co-founder of what is now TI - IN Network Inc., the country's only for - profit purveyor of educational programming by satellite, admits that the venture «grew much faster than we ever dreamed it would.»

Despite adding extra technology like Front Assist with City Emergency Brake, fatigue detection and a large 9.2 - inch touch - screen with Columbus satellite navigation, the fast Octavia is up by only $ 1000 — still $ 2600 cheaper than the 70 - run limited RS 230.

CUE with navigation and satellite radio handles infotainment duties (and seems faster than we remember).

This is great news because satellite wi - fi is significantly faster than the often unbearably slow wi - fi available on many planes today.

Since they are using a satellite, connectivity is faster than you'd expect and allows dozens of people to be online, making phone calls, and working at the same time.

Energy is what matters and if the Earth is losing it faster now than ever before (based on an entire 34 years of satellite data), then it doesn't look like CO2 is doing a very good job at slowing the rate of energy loss.

For the Northern Hemisphere, the decline has accelerated even since satellite observations began, in fact it's considerably faster post-1998 than pre-1997.

The 2009 State of the Climate report gives these top indicators: humans emitted 30 billion tons of of CO2 into the atmosphere each year from the burning of fossil fuels (oil, coal, and natural gas), less oxygen in the air from the burning of fossil fuels, rising fossil fuel carbon in corals, nights warming faster than days, satellites show less of the earth's heat escaping into space, cooling of the stratosphere or upper atmosphere, warming of the troposphere or lower atmosphere, etc..

«The satellite - based linear trend 1993 — 2011 is 3.2 ± 0.5 mm yr - 1, which is 60 % faster than the best IPCC estimate of 2.0 mm yr - 1 for the same interval»

Data from satellite measurements show that sea levels have increased by about three inches on average worldwide since 1992 suggesting that sea levels are rising more quickly than anticipated and faster than they did 50 years ago.

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 skeptics rely very heavily on tide gauges and refuse to believe the satellites because they show faster rates, Ironically now tide gauges show even faster rates than satellites, so that backs the skeptics into a corner of their own making.

(09/23/2009) Resaerchers examining 43 million satellite measurements of Antarctica's thinning ice sheets and 7 million of Greenland's, show that the ice is melting faster than expected.

And then there is the satellite record, which has no UHI effect and has a warming trend that is 0.03 C per decade cooler that the surface trend, even though GH theory tells us the troposphere should be warming faster than the surface..

«Absrtact: Wentz et al. (Reports, 13 July 2007, p. 233) present a satellite estimate of global - mean rainfall that increases with global warming faster than predicted by climate models.

What this means is that seas are expanding much faster than is shown either by satellite altimetry or tide gauges.

In a study published in Nature today, scientists assembled new datasets from Earth - observing satellites and found that glaciers in the Hindu Kush — Karakoram — Himalaya region (HKKH) lost 12 gigatonnes per year over the period 2003 — 08, much faster than previously reported.

As there is no question the Arctic has warmed faster than anywhere else, with huge cracks appearing for the first time in recorded history in old ice across the cap just recently, and with last year's record melt and the winter recovery well below the average for the 29 years satellite data has been collected, the GISTEMP record may be given more credence.

[5] From 1950 to 2009, measurements show an average annual rise in sea level of 1.7 ± 0.3 mm per year, with satellite data showing a rise of 3.3 ± 0.4 mm per year from 1993 to 2009, [6] a faster rate of increase than previously estimated.

80 - year - old photo plates from Danish polar explorerProve that Greenland's glaciers melted faster in 30s than they did todayBrief cooling period mid-century re-froze icePre - satellite images of ice shelves are extremely rare By Rob Waugh Published: 08:06 GMT, 30 May 2012 Updated: 11:54 GMT, 30 May 2012 The glacier named after Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen in Greenland A stash of 80 - year - old photo plates in a Danish basement has proved that Greenland's ice was melting even faster then that it is now.

Lost photos prove Greenland's ice was melting FASTER 80 years ago than today 80 - year - old photo plates from Danish polar explorerProve that Greenland's glaciers melted faster in 30s than they did todayBrief cooling period mid-century re-froze icePre - satellite images of ice shelves are extremely rare By Rob Waugh Published: 08:06 GMT, 30 May 2012 Updated: 11:54 GMT, 30 May 2012 The glacier named after Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen in Greenland A stash of 80 - year - old photo plates in a Danish basement has proved that Greenland's ice was melting even faster then that it iFASTER 80 years ago than today 80 - year - old photo plates from Danish polar explorerProve that Greenland's glaciers melted faster in 30s than they did todayBrief cooling period mid-century re-froze icePre - satellite images of ice shelves are extremely rare By Rob Waugh Published: 08:06 GMT, 30 May 2012 Updated: 11:54 GMT, 30 May 2012 The glacier named after Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen in Greenland A stash of 80 - year - old photo plates in a Danish basement has proved that Greenland's ice was melting even faster then that it ifaster in 30s than they did todayBrief cooling period mid-century re-froze icePre - satellite images of ice shelves are extremely rare By Rob Waugh Published: 08:06 GMT, 30 May 2012 Updated: 11:54 GMT, 30 May 2012 The glacier named after Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen in Greenland A stash of 80 - year - old photo plates in a Danish basement has proved that Greenland's ice was melting even faster then that it ifaster then that it is now.

By 2003, this glacier — already among the world's fastest - moving — reached speeds of more than 7.8 miles (12.6 kilometers) per year.2 In just one day — between July 6 and 7, 2010 — satellite images showed that Jakobshavn Isbrae lost approximately 2.7 square miles (7 square kilometers) of ice area.6

Maybe you know that already — there are alarming stories every day, like last month's satellite data showing the globe warming, since 1998, more than twice as fast as scientists had thought.

Read more: The «Katrina of Smell» is Attacking News Orleans Thanks to BP Oil Spill Saturday, May 1st SkyTruth, a small non-profit, analyzed radar and satellite imagery and estimated that the oil was leaking much faster than the original official estimates.

Comparisons with the satellite altimeter records show a reasonable coherence since the West Pacific sea level has risen faster than the global mean (at least partially related to the number of recent La Niña events).

New satellite measurements suggest that global sea levels are rising faster than the UN's most recent projections.

These authors conclude «While satellite MSU / AMSU observations generally support GCM results with tropical deep ‐ layer tropospheric warming faster than surface, it is evident that the AR4 GCMs exaggerate the increase in static stability between tropical middle and upper troposphere during the last three decades.»

But with a constellation of thousands of smaller satellites, SpaceX can overcome the obstacles presented by the distance between them, and hopefully, offer a faster and more affordable service than existing ones.