Sentences with phrase «generated by the planet»

Two days later, the torrid gas cloud crashed against Earth's magnetosphere — the magnetic field generated by the planet's spinning molten iron core that helps deflect the solar wind and more potent solar jetsam.

In 1958 ground controllers tracking the first American satellite, Explorer 1, noted that its path faithfully traced the planet's equatorial bulge (created by centrifugal forces generated by the planet's rotation).

The magnetic field, which may be generated by the planet's core, is connected to the winds because of high temperatures stripping electrons from atmospheric atoms of lithium, sodium and potassium, making them positively charged.

Greenhouse gases (which prevent dispersal of heat generated by the planet's surface, after this receiving solar radiation) of higher concentration on Earth are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH 4), nitrous oxide (N2O), Compounds of chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) and water vapor (H2O).

When a CME hits the Earth it interacts with the magnetic field (magnetosphere) generated by the planet's spinning molten iron core.

You are missing the point, which is that the double - cycle magnetic period [whether generated by planets or by standard dynamo mechanisms] is not the fundamental process.

Not exact matches

The true success of Berkshire is the combination of the cash generated by its insurance business and Buffett's ability to invest that cash far better than anyone else on the planet.

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But in the future, if soil nutrients are exhausted by the flush of new growth, CO2 generated by the decomposition of organic matter long trapped in the soil could end up adding to the overall concentrations of that planet - warming gas.

On Earth, the brightest auroras (the high - altitude glows often called the northern and southern lights) are generated when electrons in outer space near Earth are accelerated by large electrical potentials, or voltages, along the lines in our planet's magnetic field and slam into gas molecules in the upper atmosphere above polar regions.

Scientists don't fully understand what's driving Jupiter's strongest auroras, but data gathered by the orbiting Juno spacecraft hint that the electrons generating Jupiter's polar glows may be accelerated by turbulent waves in the planet's magnetic field — a process somewhat akin to surfers being driven shoreward ahead of breaking ocean waves, the researchers report today in Nature.

Now, researchers have come up with a way to more quickly gauge a big quake's magnitude and thus provide faster, more accurate tsunami warnings: by measuring the miniscule changes in Earth's gravitational field that are generated when massive slabs of the planet's crust shift by dozens of meters over the course of a few minutes.

Such cycling, and the protective magnetic field generated by the core, keep our planet at the perfect temperature for life.

«It's not like the magnetotail found at Venus, a planet with no magnetic field of its own, nor is it like Earth's, which is surrounded by its own internally generated magnetic field.

Astronomers measure the total radiation coming from the sky and subtract off the radiation generated by the instrument itself, by our own planet and civilization, and by known celestial bodies.

Life thrives on this planet partly because it is protected by the powerful magnetic field generated in the outer core.

The movement of iron, which can carry a charge, generates a strong magnetic field that can protect a planet's atmosphere from being ravaged by solar wind (SN Online: 8/18/17).

According to this theory, the heat generated by the collision would have caused the whole planet to melt, before some of the debris cooled and spun off to create the Moon.

Over millions of years, these planets become shrouded by orbiting debris generated from the collision of comets, asteroids, and other objects.

«Students contemplating careers may be well served to join the legions of 21st Century cartographers, who, like the DOE JGI user community, are interpreting the coordinates generated by the tools of genomics and other advanced omics to map the metabolic potential of the planet.»

But Mercury has a weak magnetic field — which is presumably generated, like Earth's, by the circulation of molten, electrically conducting metal at the planet's core.

Funded by the Leverhulme Trust, the new multidisciplinary research sheds light on the very early evolutionary stages of the sound generating organs in «orthopterans» (bush - crickets and their related species)-- the largest group of acoustically active insects on the planet.

«And they do say that they looked at all the different types of stellar activity and other things that could generate a spurious Doppler signal at 11 days, but after looking at all that, they concluded the variability in the data is best explained by the presence of a planet.»

In addition, the researchers identified 428 candidates as likely «false positives,» or signals generated by something other than a planet.

Unlike Earth, Mars isn't shielded by a strong magnetosphere generated within the planet.

To test their algorithm, Nemenman and Daniels created an artificial, model solar system by generating numerical trajectories of planets and comets that move around a sun.

If it suggests a planet would have to carry more biomass than is physically plausible, the chemistry is probably not generated by alien life.

Diversity of objects and frequency of those in pairs not easily generated by standard models of planet formation.

As was the case with the Pioneer Venus data, he says, these signals might instead be generated by processes involving the charged particles and magnetic fields draped around the planet.

The information generated by the search for signs of life on other worlds also helps us understand and safeguard our own planet — our Pale Blue Dot — better.

Giant planet interiors are inaccessible to direct study from above, but oscillations excited by asteroid and comet impact can generate waves that are potentially observable.

The new map of Mars» gravity was generated by scientists using data from three NASA spacecraft — the Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter — which mapped the Red Planet from orbit.

If ozone is contained in the atmospheres of an extrasolar planet, it is assumed that the planet has some living organisms that generate oxygen by photosynthesis because ozone is made up of oxygen.

These circumstellar dusty disks are likely generated by collisions between objects left over from planet formation around stars.

This detailed knowledge, in turn, provides deeper insight into the mechanisms by which planets in general cool down, by which their magnetic fields are generated, and by which the separation of lighter elements from heavier ones as planets develop their internal structure releases additional energy for geologic processes and alters crustal compositions.

Heat generated by the impacts left up to 10 percent of the planet's surface covered with melt sheets more than a kilometer thick.

Our planet's magnetic field is generated by molten iron swirling around in the planet's outer core around a smaller, solid core — a process that creates a self - sustaining geomagnetic dynamo.

«A planet in the habitable zone of a star like this would be buffeted by storms much stronger than those generated by the Sun,» added Williams.

This is the first direct evidence of a sustained weather system generated by polar aurorae on any planet, and this is the first time a weather feature in Jupiter's upper atmosphere has been observed away from the planet's bright aurorae.

Without a magnetic field generated by a rotating molten metallic core, the atmosphere of such a planet would also face progressive erosion by the stellar wind of its host star.

Using the bright light generated by these stars, researchers will be able to use spectroscopy — a technique that measures the absorption and emission of light — to determine a planet's mass, density and atmospheric composition, which could provide insights into whether or not it harbors life.

The meteorite is an achondrite, a relatively rare type of space rock that comes from a planet or big asteroid — something large that generated enough internal heat early in its history to melt partially, producing a metallic core surrounded by rock.

«We are now finally crossing a threshold where, through very sophisticated modeling of large combined data sets from multiple independent observers, we can disentangle the noise due to stellar surface activity from the very tiny signals generated by the gravitational tugs from Earth - sized orbiting planets,» study coauthor Steven Vogt, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, said in a statement.

The comparisons we have carried out thus far (see above) indicate that the 5 - AU - wide gap's observed structure could be generated by a sub-Jupiter-mass planet orbiting within the disk at a position roughly equivalent to that of Uranus in our solar system.

While a large impact on Uranus when it was still surrounded by a protoplanetary disk would have eventually produced moons in retrograde orbit around the planet, two or more smaller collisions had a much higher probability of generating the moons with the orbital direction observed today (Europlanet press release; and Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy Blog, Discover, October 7, 2011).

We have become spoiled, perhaps, by affecting computer - generated primates thanks to the «Planet of the Apes» franchise.

Why worry about his guilt over the son of Krypton when Steppenwolf — an eight - foot tall computer - generated villain who looks like the Terminator with bad teeth and is voiced by Ciaran Hinds — needs to be given a smackdown before he pulverizes the planet, something about knocking three energy boxes together.

As the seemingly sole survivor of the Norion mission, the Federation sends Samus to the planets of Bryyo and Elysia equipped with a Phazon Enhancement Device, which allows her to harness the power of the Phazon energy that is being generated by her body.

The New Orleans - shot «Dawn of the Planet of the Apes» — which arrives in theaters this weekend — will win them over as well, even in the face of the high expectations generated by Wyatt's film.

The Rebellion once again plans to destroy the Death Star before it becomes functional by eliminating the force field surrounding it generated by a base on a nearby planet, but the Emperor isn't a fool, and has a few surprises up his sleeve.