Sentences with phrase «from near the pole»

Consequently, though the sun be ready, vegetation must wait on the coming of the water, and starting from near the pole, proceeds equatorward.

Not exact matches

Lewis Hamilton secured pole position for the Chinese Grand Prix by just under two tenths, a slim margin after stunning laps from both the Mercedes driver and his nearest rival.

Images from the High Resolution Stereo Camera on Mars Express show raft - like ground structures — dubbed «plates» — that look similar to ice formations near Earth's poles, according to an international team of scientists.

Meckler actually figured this out by looking at an area near tropical Africa, far from either pole.

«We found that the coldest places near the moon's south pole are also the brightest places — brighter than we would expect from soil alone — and that might indicate the presence of surface frost,» said Elizabeth Fisher, the lead author of the study, published in Icarus.

TESS will mostly search for planets elsewhere in the sky away from Proxima Centauri, near the ecliptic poles, regions directly above and below our solar system that are easy to continuously monitor with most space telescopes.

Clement found that the duration of the transitions varied with latitude, from 2000 years near the equator to 11,000 years nearer the poles.

An avalanche of data released from NASA's New Horizons probe, which flew past Pluto on 14 July, show the dwarf planet has a pair of potentially volcanic mountains near its south pole.

A dark region near its north pole, dubbed Mordor, might be the result of gases from Pluto's atmosphere condensing on the moon's surface.

Odyssey imaged this area near the Martian north pole from 2002 to 2004.

For 2 decades satellite observations have shown that Jupiter emits x-rays from somewhere near its poles.

The chlorine, meanwhile, may be from chemicals called perchlorates, which were previously spotted by NASA's Phoenix lander near the Martian north pole.

Among other things, giant cell circulation helps transport energy from the sun's polar regions to its equator, where material rotates around the sun about 10 days faster than it does near the poles.

This 500 - kilometer - wide ice ball shoots out large geysers of ice crystals, which apparently originate from underground lakes near the satellite's south pole.

These popcorn - sized puffs of ice crystals have long been thought the source of the bromine oxide that triggers the deposition of the mercury from the atmosphere and the depletion of ozone near the poles.

IKI now has five lunar missions planned from 2018 to 2025, starting with Luna - 25, a spacecraft that would land near the moon's south pole.

And yes, it is kind of near the pole, but if a star is really high up you say it's overhead or you say it's near the zenith if you want to get into astronomical jargon, but it's not in the west; it just doesn't work out, it's not westward from the pole.

That favors a model in which much of Io's heat rises from deep within the moon and emerges near the poles, rather than spreading uniformly from shallower reservoirs of magma.

The NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered water vapour erupting from the frigid surface of Jupiter's moon Europa, in one or more localised plumes near its south pole.

After Cassini's surprising discovery of a towering plume of icy spray in 2005, emanating from hot cracks near the south pole, scientists turned its detectors toward the small moon.

A star near one of the poles — the North Star, say — is forever cloaked from people of the opposite hemisphere, obstructed by Earth itself.

The finding implies the fine spray of water vapor, icy particles and simple organic molecules Cassini has observed coming from fractures near the moon's south pole is being fed by this vast liquid water reservoir.

The ice they carried would have vaporized from the impact, settling eventually in permanently shadowed craters near the north and south lunar poles, where the extreme cold (below — 400 degrees Fahrenheit, according to recent observations) would have preserved it almost indefinitely.

As MGS skimmed the planet from pole to pole, it tracked changes in carbon dioxide ice deposits near the south pole of Mars.

But in December 2012, when the ice moon was at its farthest point from the gas giant, they caught a pair of plumes bearing clear signs of oxygen and hydrogen — the components of water vapor — shooting from near the southern pole.

Ultracold hydrocarbon lakes and seas (dark shapes) near the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan can be seen embedded in some kind of bright surface material in this infrared mosaic from NASA's Cassini mission.

Mars Odyssey spotted vast tracts of water ice, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter saw «dry ice» snowflakes falling from clouds near the pole.

Saturn's icy moon, Enceladus, shoots water near the farthest point in its orbit from Saturn, when the tidal forces cause cracks at the moon's south pole to open.

Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, they caught two 124 - mile - tall geysers of water vapor spewing out over seven hours from near its south pole.

[F] or three Mars summers in a row, deposits of frozen carbon dioxide near Mars» south pole have shrunk from the previous year's size, suggesting a climate change in progress.

From near one pole, it would probably have the shape of a ring, and perhaps look like we view the Ring Nebula M57.

Cassini has performed many flybys of Enceladus since arriving in the Saturn system in July 2004, sometimes even cruising through the plumes generated by the geysers, which erupt from «tiger stripe» fissures near the moon's south pole.

But near the poles and in the upper stratosphere, CO2 is increasing the amount of ozone by preventing nitrogen oxide from breaking it down.

Earth's atmosphere has a «transportation belt» of air flows which move ozone from the main production areas near the equator towards the poles.

However, layers of water ice, up to a few hundred meters thick, are permanently shielded from sunlight in craters (shown above in black) near Mercury's poles.10 How strange.

Try fishing pole toys and re-create the movements of mice and birds, starting near your cat and moving away from them

Try fishing pole toys and re-create the movements of mice and birds, starting near your cat and moving away from them — giving your cat the opportunity to chase, stalk and pounce on the toy.

While DiRT 3 seemed caught in two minds as to whether to carry on with the impeccable rallying from the near - perfect DiRT 2 or try and turn your car into a demented pole - dancing skateboard, Showdown feels much more focused, admittedly more towards a Mad Max meets X-games mashup.

Members of CAB, as well as representatives from the groups Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence and Decolonize This Place, occupied the inside of the gallery and taped a statement about the show to a pole near the building's facade, arguing that the show perpetuates racist stereotypes about the local community.

It is derived from from magnetic measurements near each of the poles (Greenwich and Melbourne observatories but superseded by observations from Abinger - Hartland and Toolangi).

Therefore, near the poles, water vapor is near zero, almost all of the GHG concentrations are from the non - condensing / man - caused - increasing CO2 and methane.

I was merely trying to figure how area such solar panel array would take up and this had nothing to do with costs but checking to see if it took up more area or somewhere close to areas of «peaks of eternal light»: «NASA and Europe revealed a small number of illuminated ridges within 15 km from the pole, each of them much like an island of no more than a few hundred meters across in an ocean of eternal darkness, where a lander could receive near - permanent lighting (~ 70 — 90 % of time in lunar winter, likely 100 % in lunar summer).»

This occurs because as warming causes sea ice near the poles to melt, energy from the sun that would have been reflected away by the ice is instead absorbed by the ocean.

I think you are getting confused from a statement about there being less CO2 in total (because the air is «thinner»... i.e., there is less of all atmospheric gases there... due to a combination of elevation and the fact that the air thins out more as you go up in elevation near the poles than elsewhere).

Major ice ages came and went from natural causes, mainly variations in Earth's orbit and the incoming solar energy, especially nearer the poles.

Near the poles the albedo is always high, from a combination of low sun angle and the dependency of albedo on that low grazing angle.

Not only are they both from Antarctica, but they are both from near the south pole.

As the cycle builds the opposing flux which is left over from the sunspot polarity region that is closest to the pole (spots are always tilted), builds towards the poles before they cancel out near cycle max then build again with an opposite polarity.

Surface temperatures can range from below freezing near the poles to 35 °C in restricted tropical seas, while salinity can vary from 10 to 41 ppt (1.0 — 4.1 %).

The cold waters near the poles and the deep oceans are far from saturated, but these have a limited exchange, neither are land plants near saturation, but they have other limits.