Sentences with phrase «heated by the sun»

Look, the wind blows, the sun shines, the earth is heated by the sun and the core.

If Ceres is acting like a comet, it must have ice patches that can survive for a long time before being heated by the sun as it moves into a warmer part of its orbit.

Researchers speculate that the comet's boulders might have been relocated by surface material slipping and sliding after being heated by the sun.

«We have also found that a half - metre thick coating of organic - rich material could have protected a water - ice - rich comet - like interior from vaporizing when the object was heated by the sun, even though it was heated to over 300 degrees centigrade.»

This results from the solar wind interacting with the plasma generated in the coma — the envelope of gas flowing from a comet's nucleus as it is heated by the sun.

Mars» dust storms can be much taller because the Red Planet's lower gravity and thinner atmosphere make it easier for dust particles heated by the sun to rise up, Heavens says.

The surface of the Earth radiates as a blackbody at its temperature which is continually changing because it is being heated by the sun, or it is cooling during the night.

Parts of Mercury's Moon - like, rocky surface are heated by the Sun to temperatures nearing 800 degrees Fahrenheit (425 degrees Celsius).

But for us here at Loeber Motors, nothing quite sounds like spring than the rumble of a 2014 Porsche 911 near Chicago tuned exhaust echoing down the streets and the feeling of its rich leather seats heated by the sun rays.

Both the Dakota and Nappa leather upholsteries in the new BMW 6 Series Convertible are treated with SunReflective technology, which reduces the degree to which the surfaces are heated by the sun's rays.

One afternoon, at the end of their first summer, Cal had just called her over to the shower, a plastic receptacle heated by the sun that they'd secured to a tree branch.

Pavement, asphalt, metal, and even sand that has been heated by the sun can burn dogs» paw pads.

The name's a bit misleading: the pools aren't natural, they're man - made bathtubs sunk into the ground and they're not heated by the sun but by a water heater.

Each room has a safe deposit box, and a private bathroom with hot water heated by the sun on solar panels.

Hi Chels, I cant find any information regarding heating pools which suggests that they are all heated by the sun only.

Over the years there have been many attempts at building houses that were heated by the sun; In Passive House + Magazine, Dr. Marc Ó Riain has a fresh look at the Dover Sun House, built in 1948.

Actually, though, most of the OLR originates from below the tropopause (can get up around 18 km in the tropics, generally lower)-- with a majority of solar radiation absorbed at the surface, a crude approximation can be made that the area emitting to space is less than 2 * (20/6371) * 100 % ~ = 0.628 % more than the area heated by the sun, so the OLR per unit area should be well within about 0.6 % of the value calculated without the Earth's curvature (I'm guessing it would actually be closer to if not less than 0.3 % different).

The heat of the earth is developed based on the mass and surface area of the earth that is heated by the sun.

As Willis also correctly pointed out, the oceans are heated by the sun, mostly.

During the day, although there is more uptake through photosynthesis, more turbulence happens either by increased wind speed or by increased soil heating by the sun or both.

For example, roofing panels can be heated by the sun and transfer that heat to the wooden rafters they are attached to.

The ocean is heated by the sun and cooled by the atmosphere.

The top of the tin was constantly heated by the sun.

The temperature gradient steepens depending on the surface temperature being reduced, or may temporarily form an inversion — say if highly absorbent rock is heated by the Sun during the day.

When the temperature of the water, heated by the Sun rises, it expands.

Show how Visible Light from the Sun directly heats the land and water at the Equator to the intensity these are actuallly heated by the Sun to give us our real huge Wind and Weather Systems, in the real world.

When a moisture reservoir is heated by the sun, water is driven inwards1.

Since the sun is almost never directly over head the shadow of the cloud would cool another piece of ground (not under the main updraft) that used to be heated by the sun.

In the absence of the Sun — say at night — what happens to the temperature of the surface previously heated by the Sun?

CO2 does not warm anything by itself — it changes the IR energy pathways of emissions from a planet surface heated by the Sun.

If the warm water heated by the sun is driven by the wind into the deeper layers, and also bringing colder deep waters to the surface, the surface stays cool, the heat is transferred down, and La Nina works its cooling magic on the globe.

Once compressed, the warm fluid will either cool to ambient temperature (consider a SCUBA diver's air tank or a CO2 fire extinguisher) or, remain warm if there is an external source of energy (the Venusian atmosphere heated by the Sun).

The principal heating of air during the day is produced by its contact with a land surface that has been heated by the Sun's radiation.

Temperatures varied more than 10 - degrees - Celsius over a single tidal cycle and became most extreme when the low tide period aligned with maximum heating by the sun at noon, which warmed the shallow water on the reefs.

@JohninRedding The atmosphere is indirectly heated by the sun through convection and radiation by the earth.

Since the ocean surface temperature changes precede surface air temperature changes by several months, and since the top two metres of ocean contain as much heat capacity as the entire atmosphere above it, it is clear that surface temperature and atmospheric temperature is strongly influenced by the ocean, which is heated by the sun, not by back radiation.

Most importantly, the oceans (which are heated by the sun during the day) are constantly heating the atmosphere day and night.

Rarely do we see an environmental lapse rate as great as the one in Figure 4 except near the ground on days of strong surface heating by the sun.

The stratosphere warms from the top down because it is heated by the sun from above, the main absorber being molecular oxygen, O2, followed by products of its photodissociation, O3.

«The Destination Center's Trombe walls move air heated by the sun into the facility's exhibit hall, which is the main focus of the building.

The earth's surface is unevenly heated by the sun both by latitude and by the earth's rotation.

Reduced equatorial cloud cover during La Nina (due to the cooler sea surface temperature), combined with the strong upwelling (Ekman suction) in the eastern equatorial Pacific, does indeed lead to greater warming of the ocean - because it's bringing cool subsurface water to the surface, where it can be heated by the sun.

Not exact matches

Hmm, so you're telling me that a «heat shield» that was made of «special plastic» (as NASA called it back in the day), which was nothing but epoxy smeared over a ss honey comb «protected» the astros barreling into the upper atmosphere at hypersonic 5 miles / sec, or well over 30 times the velocity of a jumbo - jet and thru temperatures *** as quoted by NASA *** that are «10 times hotter than the surface of the sun», and then they «braked» with only a parachute to a safe splashdown?

You forgot self - extermination by way of global heating which is actually in the process of happening now... so that should be first on your list... the sun expanding won't happen for another 5 billion or so years... we'll be long long gone by then.

A single deer, driven almost mad by the heat of the sun and stumbling across a desert landscape in exhaustion, suddenly comes upon water.

(by the way, heat / energy from the Sun increases the entropy of a system) If Macro evolution is true, why don't we see any transitionary animals now?

This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise.

It was just by «random chance» that the sun is the perfect distance from the earth so we don't get baked or frozen, that the moon is the right distance and size so the tides don't flood us, that the earth rotates so we are evenly heated, that water - which is absent on other planets and vital to our life - is present here, that there is a balance of living things to keep each other in check.

It is not by Birth it is by Faith; ---- «The blind and the seeing are not alike; (19) Nor are the depths of Darkness and the Light; (20) Nor are the (chilly) shade and the (genial) heat of the sun: (21) Nor are alike those that are living and those that are dead.

While the aromas of the day are subdued, drowned out by heat and car exhaust, the disappearance of the sun pulls out the scents hidden deep within the earth.