Sentences with phrase «half earth years»

The hundreds of new homes expected to emerge from the ash - coated earth this year — and the next year, and the next — are equal to the rate of boom - time construction activity in Fort McMurray.

Since then, the Steady State Theory has been disproven, and the Big Bang Theory has been shown to be correct, vindicating a form of «Creationism», which not only explains «let there be light» (the early universe was dominated by radiation — light), but explains of separation of light and darkness — the decoupling era, about 300,000 earth years after the big bang, when the universe cooled below the ionization energy of hydrogen, allowing it to become transparent for the first time.

maybe he gets a longterm deal, or maybe he gets injured and comes back down to earth this year.

You know that movie Interstellar, when they go onto the planet orbiting close to a black hole that causes time dilation, which makes an hour on that planet equal seven Earth years?

Since reusable diapers are great for the earth all year round, it's like a gift that keeps on giving!

Still, there is plenty of stuff to run into up there — about 40,000 tons of extraterrestrial dust wafts down onto Earth every year.

The Cassini space probe has been monitoring Titan since 2004, but as the moon's year lasts 30 Earth years, it has only ever seen one season.

Kargel is the international coordinator of Global Land Ice Measurements From Space, a satellite program dedicated to photographing each glacier on Earth every year.

The trouble with designing a nice, regular calendar is that each Earth year is 365.2422 days long, leaving extra snippets of time that don't fit nicely into a cycle of 24 - hour days.

Observations made between 2002 and 2009 show that the time between transits is shortening by 60 milliseconds per Earth year, say Elisabeth Adams of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and colleagues (Astrophysical Journal, vol 721, p 1829).

Using ground - based telescopes, Michael J. Mumma of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and his colleagues monitored about 90 percent of the Red Planet's surface for three Martian years (equal to seven Earth years).

Up to 84,000 meteorites pelt Earth each year.

Tons of comet detritus rains down on Earth every year.

On some missions, such as NASA's Curiosity Mars rover (now deep into its third Earth year seeking signs of habitable conditions on the Red Planet), the excess heat from the MMRTG can also be used to keep spacecraft systems warm in cold environments.

BACK TO EARTH This year Hamilton is once again on sabbatical.

It follows an unusual orbit, swinging from 7 billion to 93 billion miles away from the sun and taking a leisurely 12,000 Earth years to complete its own year.

Such storms occur roughly once every Saturnian year, which is equivalent to 30 Earth years.

Voyager provided the first glimpses of the hexagonal cloud structure some 27 Earth years (about one Saturn year) ago.

Some simulated impacts created depletions that were still felt across the whole Earth a year later.

13 Laser beams bounced off mirrors left behind by Apollo astronauts show that the moon is moving 1.5 inches farther from Earth each year.

These physicists say that if neutrinos were really as fast as the Gran Sasso data indicate, the neutrinos from the supernova, 168,000 light - years away, should have arrived on Earth some years before the photons from the supernova.

Sequential images taken from orbit over the course of multiple years show that some of these dunes are migrating by as much as a yard, or meter, per Earth year.

Astronomers are searching for seasonal changes during the Jovian year (11.86 Earth years).

Using Earth - based telescopes to study sunlight reflected from the planet, the team found concentrations as high as 45 parts per billion near three geological features at a specific time: summer in the northern hemisphere of Mars in the Earth year 2003.

MAVEN has been tracking the hydrogen escape without interruption over the course of a Martian year, which lasts nearly two Earth years.

The planet, called Epsilon Indi Ab, has the mass of 2.7 Jupiters and takes an extraordinary 52.6 Earth years to orbit its star — among the longest exoplanet orbits yet discovered (arxiv.org/abs/1803.08163).

The Cassini spacecraft snapped this panorama of Saturn — actually a mosaic of dozens of photographs taken over eight hours — just after the ringed planet's equinox, which occurs once every 15 Earth years or so.

Spirit has not managed to free itself in a series of extraction maneuvers that began in November, and the rover's controllers say that their focus must now turn to preparing for the onset of winter in the Martian southern hemisphere — a harsh season, lasting nearly half an Earth year, that Spirit may not survive.

It performs a flyby of Earth and continues thrusting with the ion drive to lower its energy with respect to the Earth - moon system, so that when it comes back to Earth a year later, it can use a lunar flyby to reenter high Earth orbit and await its next mission.

One of the four gas giants, this planet takes 10.7 hours to rotate (completing a day) and 29 Earth years to complete one orbit of the sun.

At that distance from the star, such a planet would have an orbital period of about 124 days, or around a third of an Earth year.

It takes Saturn nearly 30 Earth years to make a full orbit of the sun.

At that distance from the star, such a planet would have an orbital period of around 4.7 Earth years.

Alternatively, the habitable zone orbits have also be calculated to lie between 1.80 to 3.5 AUs (Jones and Sleep, 2003)-- between the orbital distances of Mars and the Main Asteroid Belt in the Solar System — with an orbital period of two to several Earth years.

A hundred days have passed since Mars was closest to Earth this year, but the Red Planet can still be seen in the early evening sky close to the jewel of the solar system, Saturn.

Uranus is 19 times the Earth's distance from the Sun and completes a circuit around the Sun in about 84 Earth years.

Pluto's orbital period is about 248 Earth years and it's rotational period being 6 Earth days.

At that distance from the star, such a planet would have an orbital period of about 202 days — less than two thirds of an Earth year.

Such a planet would have an orbital period of around 1.3 Earth years.

Calculations by to Weigert and Holman (1997) indicated that the distance from the star where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered around 0.73 to 0.74 AU — somewhat beyond the orbital distance of Venus in the Solar System — with an orbital period under an Earth year using calculations based on Hart (1979).

It completes an orbit around the Sun in about 12 Earth years.

An Earth - type in such a water - zone orbit would probably would have a period of around 176 days or just under half an Earth year.

A couple of basic issues first: the Martian year is about 2 Earth years (687 days).

The energy this event generated has finally reached Earth this year.

The minimum speed near apoapse, about 1.8 degrees per Earth year, is slower than Neptune.)

The orbit of an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) around this star would be centered around 1.14 AU — somewhat outside the orbital distance of Earth in the Solar System — with an orbital period of about one and a quarter of an Earth year.

After roving for approximately a Mars year (almost two Earth years) and sampling dust, sand, rocks and atmosphere at the Gale Crater landing site, Curiosity has found the strongest evidence to date that the very early Mars environment could have provided a suitable habitat for life as we know it.

Based on its estimated bolometric luminosity, the distance from HR 4523 A where an Earth - type planet would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered around 0.88 AU — between the orbital distance of Venus and Earth in the Solar System, with an orbital period about 330 days, or about 90 percent of an Earth year.

These gusts sweep past Earth year - round, which returns us to the original question: why do auroras appear more often during spring and autumn?

With the eccentricity of the orbit, the maximum speed near periapse, about 18 degrees per Earth year, is faster than Saturn, but slower than Jupiter.