Sentences with phrase «faster than the planet»

Although both worlds are similar in size and density, our planetary neighbor has temperatures so high they can melt lead, winds that whip around it some 60 times faster than the planet itself rotates and an atmosphere that slams down with more than 90 times the pressure found on Earth's atmosphere.

The far ultraviolet images revealed that the front edges of the shimmering auroral curtains, which can stretch 1000 kilometers tall on Saturn, raced across the planet's surface at more than 4 kilometers per second — about three times faster than the planet rotates, the researchers report in a forthcoming issue of Geophysical Research Letters.

But if a moon revolves faster than the planet spins — as Phobos does — it moves inward and the planet's gravity tears it to pieces, which smash into the surface below.

Material in our own Solar System follows Kepler's Laws, with the inner planets orbiting the Sun faster than planets further out.

The northern part of the world is warming faster than the planet as a whole.

But even though we don't have to deal with that pesky creditor Gaia the same way we would a debt in our daily lives, we've still got to come to terms with the fact that humanity is spending our natural capital faster than our planet can regenerate it, and that bill's gonna come due sooner or later, in the form of major impacts on our food, water, energy, and natural resources.

It is obvious that we consume carbon resources faster than the planet stores them.

Not exact matches

the crazies are breeding faster than common sense — education is failing to teach realities (due to the religious right cuts)-- it won't be long before we blow this planet up — hehe

mormonism was made up less than 200 years ago and it is the fastest growing religion on the planet... know why?

You'll have your Picnic for the Planet menu figured out faster than you can say bug spray!

There are fewer stranger thoughts than seeing the fastest man on the planet running down the channels at Old Trafford, but if The Sun are to be believed — it's not entirely unrealistic.

This kind of random fluctuation is thought to have ultimately created our cosmos of stars, planets and existential worriers out of the quantum vacuum — admittedly abetted by some as - yet - unexplained happenstance, such as a period of faster - than - light inflation in the early universe, and matter somehow winning out against its evil twin, antimatter.

Although NASA has neglected Venus in favor of regular Mars missions (see graphic, above), Venus Express, a European mission that ended in 2014, observed the motion and structure of Venus's atmosphere, which whips around the planet 60 times faster than it rotates.

(Im) permafrost According to a 2007 global outlook from the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP), the frozen soil of the Tibetan plateau has warmed about 0.3 degree Celsius over the past 30 years — after the poles, faster than anywhere else on the planet.

Akatsuki's 2 - year mission aims to peel away some of the mystery of Venus's dense, cloudy atmosphere, which sweeps over the planet at speeds exceeding 300 kilometers per hour, or 60 times faster than Venus itself rotates.

«Both the physical ocean and the life within it are shifting much more rapidly than our models predicted for the Arctic,» Alter notes, adding that temperatures there are rising twice as fast as everywhere else on the planet.

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.

Song calculates that the solid inner core spins just slightly faster per year than the rest of the planet, a difference that adds up to an extra revolution every 1,000 years or so.

They concluded that the upper levels of the planet's oceans — those of the northern and southern hemispheres combined — had been warming during several decades prior to 2005 at rates that were 24 to 58 percent faster than had previously been realized.

Swain is principal investigator of the Fast Infrared Exoplanet Spectroscopy Survey Explorer (Finesse), a proposed 30 - inch space telescope that would probe more than 200 planets around nearby stars to learn about their atmospheres and how they formed.

The three $ 4.3 million high - speed elevators (out of 79) in the Yokohama Landmark Tower, a 70 - story office, shopping, restaurant, and hotel complex, are the fastest on the planet, moving at more than 41 vertical feet, or four floors, per second.

The team is focusing on the Arctic because, just as today's Arctic is warming faster than other parts of the planet, the Pliocene Arctic warmed more than the rest of the globe.

Causes of warming trends at higher latitudes have gained more widespread attention from researchers in the past few decades, but the idea that the Arctic would warm faster than the rest of the planet has been around for more than 100 years.

It might seem counterintuitive, but nowhere is global climate change more pronounced than above the Arctic Circle, where temperatures are rising twice as fast as on the planet as a whole.

If the crystal could form so early in Earth's history, the planet's surface must have cooled and hardened considerably faster than researchers had suspected.

There's an arms race going on among insects in the Arctic, where temperatures are increasing faster than anywhere else on the planet — and mosquitoes are winning, according to a new study.

We have two guiding principles: we don't use natural resources faster than they can be replenished by the planet, and we don't deposit wastes faster than they can be absorbed.

HD 189733b's atmosphere appears to be thinning 25 percent to 65 percent faster than it would be if the planet's atmosphere were smaller.

Analysis of the first seven years of data from a NASA cloud - monitoring mission suggests clouds are doing less to slow the warming of the planet than previously thought, and that temperatures may rise faster than expected as greenhouse gas pollution worsens — perhaps 25 percent faster.

Of particular interest to the researchers is a projection from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that future temperatures on the planet will rise faster at high altitudes than they will at sea level.

Climate models do not predict an even warming of the whole planet: changes in wind patterns and ocean currents can change the way heat is distributed, leading to some parts warming much faster than average, while a few may cool, at least at first.

Over the last few decades, the Arctic has heated up two to three times faster than the rest of the planet.

That's bad news for the Arctic, where ice helps keep the planet cool but global warming is causing ice to melt faster than it can be replaced.

He also figured out the planet goes faster when it's at perihelion, nearer the sun, than when it's at aphelion, its furthest distance.

The team also found that Saturn moon Rhea is moving away 10 times faster than the other moons, which is the first evidence that a planet's dissipation factor can vary with its distance in relation to the moon.

The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on the planet.

Since planet b is gaseous, however, its outer atmosphere is probably circulating much faster than its interior.

June 30, 2017 - The Department of Energy's drive toward the next generation of supercomputers, «exascale» machines capable of more than a quintillion (1018) calculations per second, isn't simply to boast about having the fastest processing machines on the planet.

Even at the speed of light, it would take more than four years to go from Earth to the new planet (and no spaceship can go nearly that fast).

Blooms of algae in the Arctic Ocean could add a previously unsuspected warming feedback to the mix of factors driving temperatures in the north polar regions up faster than any other place on the planet, according to the authors of a new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

But the Jupiter - like exoplanets that have been discovered so far are much hotter than models have predicted, hinting that they could have formed much faster as material collapses quickly to make a very hot planet.

It's likely that when «Oumuamua was first ejected into space, it was travelling at just enough speed to break away from the gravity of its planet or star of origin, rather than at a much faster speed that would require even more energy.

Blooms of algae in the Arctic Ocean could add a previously unsuspected warming feedback to the mix of factors driving temperatures in the north polar regions up faster than any other place on the planet, according to the authors of a new study in

Astronomers have measured and mapped a weather system on a planet outside our solar system for the first time ever, and discovered a world where raging winds blow at nearly 5,400 miles per hour — nearly 20 times greater than the fastest ever recorded on Earth.

Although Jupiter is ten times wider than Earth, it manages to spin around 2.5 times as fast as our little planet.

So, how does this jibe with the idea of polar amplification, the idea that the poles will warm faster than the rest of the planet on average?

But he was able to process data from 4,000 Kepler planets in a few months with a regular computer, which is a lot faster than Kipping's method, if not as accurate, and could help narrow down which exoplanets are candidates for exomoons.

The Department of Energy's drive toward the next generation of supercomputers, «exascale» machines capable of more than a quintillion (1018) calculations per second, isn't simply to boast about having the fastest processing machines on the planet.

Deglaciation seems to be a much faster process than glaciation, and depending on the amount of ice on the planet these processes may be slower or faster, if I understand Hansen correctly on this.

According to a new study co-authored by Allen and published Thursday in Nature Climate Change, the eventual peak level of warming that the planet will see from greenhouse gas emissions is going up at 2 percent per year, much faster than actual temperatures are increasing.