Sentences with phrase «hotter than the earth»

Punching in the correct brightness of the planet's star revealed a planet bigger and hotter than Earth.
GJ 1214 b GJ 1214 b is nearly three times as wide and some 300ºF hotter than Earth, but it may nonetheless have an abundance of life's most prized commodity: liquid water.
The planets closer to the Sun are indeed hotter than the Earth is.
If CO2 absorption is close to saturation, why is Venus hotter than Earth?
The surface of the Moon, having no appreciable atmosphere, gets far hotter than the Earth for the same exposure time to the Sun.
You see, Joanne, you have nothing in the way of an hypothesis that even explains the observed surface temperature of Earth, let alone that of Venus or at the base of the 350Km high nominal troposphere of Uranus where it's hotter than Earth.
There's no significant radiation at the base of the nominal Uranus troposphere, but it's hotter than Earth's surface down there.
To even everything up Venus would have to absorb seven times as much sunlight, and that would make that altitude of Venus a lot hotter than Earth.
Hundreds of degrees hotter than Earth, even though it is in the «goldilocks zone» like we are, and why?

Not exact matches

Although the gas is at a chilly minus 63 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 53 degrees Celsius) and is 300 trillion times less dense than Earth's atmosphere, it's still five times hotter and 10 to 100 times denser than what's typical in galaxies like the Milky Way.
Black smokers produce the hottest water ever discovered on Earth, more than 400 °C, and have even been suggested as a possible site for the first evolution of life.
«Earth's hottest, most buoyant mantle plumes draw from a primordial reservoir older than the moon.»
NOT LIKE HOME Rocky super-Earth 55 Cancri e, seen in this artist's illustration, is about Earth's size, but a new study suggests it and other similar hot exoplanets probably formed in a completely different way than Earth did.
Because Earth and the moon were tidally locked from the beginning, the still hot Earth — more than 2500 degrees Celsius — radiated towards the near side of the moon.
«Earth's center is 1,000 degrees hotter than previously thought, synchrotron X-ray experiment shows.»
Temperatures inside the earth are much hotter than on the surface and can range from 1,470 to 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit (800 to 1,200 degrees Celsius).
A team led by Kaveh Pahlevan at Yale University calculate that as rock vapour rose from Earth's hot, roiling surface, the magnesium oxide it contained would have condensed into droplets and rained back to the surface more readily than the more volatile iron oxide, which could then have mixed into the moon - forming disc (Earth and Planetary Science Letters, DOI: 10.1016 / j.epsl.2010.10.036).
The surface of Venus is more than 400 °C hotter than the surface of Earth — and at those extreme temperatures, the rock crystals can grow more quickly, healing themselves so that the boundaries never form.
The analysis is based on the fact that as the world warmed following the coldest part of the last ice age 20,000 years ago, the ice deep inside the Antarctic glaciers warmed more slowly than Earth's surface, just as a frozen turkey put into a hot oven will still be cold inside even after the surface has reached oven temperature.
For the ancient Earth, 3 billion years ago, the researchers found that, because the ancient mantle was so much hotter than today, and the slabs much denser, a density flip would not have occurred.
In a paper published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, the researchers note that the ancient Earth harbored a mantle that was as much as 200 degrees Celsius hotter than it is today — temperatures that may have brewed up more uniform, less dense material throughout the entire mantle layer.
The new, high - resolution map of the mantle — the hot rock below Earth's crust but above the planet's iron core — not only shows these connections for many hotspots on the planet, but reveals that below about 1,000 kilometers the plumes are between 600 and 1,000 kilometers across, up to five times wider than geophysicists thought.
Temperatures can be much, much hotter than on Earth (such as in the atmosphere of a star) and much, much colder (in relatively empty interstellar space).
Tom Clements, southeastern nuclear campaign coordinator of Friends of the Earth, said the fuel in pool No. 4 was hotter than in the plant's other pools because it had more recently been transferred into the pool.
One of those planets, known as Kepler 438b, receives a little bit more energy from its star than Earth and so may be a bit hotter, Caldwell says.
Finally, about 130 million years after the red giant phase, the sun will go through a final spasm and eject its outer layers into space, leaving behind a white dwarf: a hot, dense lump of carbon and oxygen no larger than Earth.
At various times in Earth's history, the planet was much hotter than it is now.
For now, 2016 still stands as the hottest year of all time, a year when no land area on Earth experienced lower - than - average temperatures.
The last comparable lava eruption on Earth occurred 15 million years ago, and it's been more than two billion years since lava as hot as that found on Io (reaching 1,480 degrees Celsius, or 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit) flowed on Earth.
A popular analog is Iceland, where substantial amounts of crust are forming from basaltic magma that is much hotter than the magmas that built most of Earth's current continental crust.
Earth would be hotter than it is today if countries hadn't curtailed the use of chlorofluorocarbons
The Sahara ant can handle 131 - degree weather, but the sun does not get Earth's surface much hotter than that.
The planet is significantly hotter and a bit larger than Earth, so one possibility is that it is a «water world» with an atmosphere of hot steam.»
Quasars are the discs of hot gas that form around supermassive black holes at the centre of massive galaxies — they are bigger than Earth's orbit around the sun and hotter than the surface of the sun, generating enough light to be seen across the observable universe.
However, calculations by a team of geoscientist (including Nicolas Flament) suggest that Earth was a «water - world» up through year 2.1 billion because Earth's mantle layer may have been up to 200 °C hotter than it is today, when the early Earth still had a larger quantity of radioactive elements decaying and producing heat.
NASA is particularly interested in identifying planets one half to twice the size of Earth — terrestrial planets rather than the gas or ice giants or hot - super-Earths in short period orbits that evidence suggests exist in large numbers — especially ones that are located in the habitable zone of their stars.
Humans are on track to make Earth hotter and faster than anything seen in those past eras.
Early Earth also was hotter than today, the sea contained great amounts of dissolved silica due to a lack of planktonic organisms like today that use it for their shells.
The field of exoplanets is hotter than ever: we learned that planets are literally everywhere and that planets with sizes similar to Earth are the most common among the known planets.
NOAA global climate data has revealed that this past summer was likely the hottest the Earth has experienced in more than 130 years.
Similarly, the terms Neptunes and hot Neptunes refer to planets less than about 10 percent of Jupiter's mass, and the term super-Earths refers to those planets that may well be rocky bodies only a few times as massive as Earth.
«We now appear to be closing in on an explanation as to why the solar corona is over 100 times hotter than the solar surface — the solution to a 55 - year old puzzle,» said Dr. George Withbroe, Director of the Sun - Earth Connection Program at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC.
The smallest planet orbits Kepler - 33, a star older and more massive than our Sun, Sol, which also had the most detected planet candidates at five (ranging in size from 1.5 to 5 times that of Earth) in uninhabitable, hot inner orbits closer to their star than even Mercury around our Sun (NASA Kepler news release; and JPL news release).
This final eruption was the brightest ever recorded, and is thought to have reached temperatures much hotter than those created in the average eruption taking place back on Earth.
Writing in Earth's Future, an American Geophysical Union journal, the researchers concluded that both hurricane peaks coincided with periods when surface waters of the Atlantic Ocean were hotter than normal.
They are now analyzing Kepler's light curves to learn new details about the uninhabitable massive planets that Kepler detects because characterizing these «hot Jupiters» and Neptune - sized planets (planets less than four times the diameter of Earth) is considered great practice for eventually studying small planets.
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At that distance, the sun loomed 3 times wider and felt more than 10 times hotter than it does on Earth.
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