Sentences with phrase «in venusian»

It goes on to assert that any point in the Venusian atmosphere at the same pressure as the Earth's would be at the same temperature with appropriate adjustment for the relative power received from the sun.

Hansen is wrong both about the possibility on earth and in Venusian past history.

This means that there has been time in Venusian history for perhaps ten such cycles.

[Response: Hansen's degree was in astrophysics, not astronomy, and dealt with radiative transfer in the Venusian atmosphere as a function of aerosols and greenhouse gases — pretty relevant I'd say.

In 2004, Schulze - Makuch and his colleagues announced their speculations that such microbes may survive in Venusian clouds with the help of molecular rings of sulphur to shelter from the Sun's ultraviolet (UV) radiation as Venus does not have a protective layer of ozone in its atmosphere.

Kargel's estimate should be considered to be a lower limit on when the planet dried up because it did not include the effect of clouds in the Venusian atmosphere.

As SEP events may produce very large enhancements in the ion production rate in the Venusian upper and middle atmosphere, investigations of space weather effects at Venus are relevant to future missions to the planet, particularly those carrying low - frequency radar instruments (Nordheim et al. 2015).

Thus, it is plausible that changes to atmospheric ionization rates due to cosmic ray variability may affect the occurrence of electrical phenomena in the Venusian atmosphere (Nordheim et al. 2015) hence manifesting a relation between space weather and meteorological phenomena.

Keeping in mind the very low content of water in the Venusian atmosphere, it is not surprising to measure very low contents of H2 and H (the latter always dominant) in the upper atmosphere (Keating et al. 1985).

Venus Express has also detected water molecules escaping into space, found concrete evidence for lightning in the venusian atmosphere, and provided infrared glimpses of the hot surface.

The simulated image at left shows how the smaller particle size in Venusian cloud tops (compared to a typical 10 to 40 micrometers in terrestrial ones) causes the colored fringes to spread further apart than they would appear on Earth.

The glory is a sensitive marker for conditions in the Venusian clouds, which, made of sulphuric acid and completely enveloping the planet, have long held a special fascination for planetary scientists.

Taylor says that the high levels of sulphur dioxide in the venusian upper atmosphere are also almost certainly due to recent volcanic eruptions.

«Equatorial jet in Venusian atmosphere.»

Studies of hydrogen molecules in the Venusian atmosphere by NASA's Pioneer - Venus probe indicate that the planet once had liquid water on its surface, perhaps even expansive oceans.

Not exact matches

Uncertain krypton measures from earlier probes presented two possibilities: Venusian levels could match Earth's, indicating the two planets probably formed from similar ingredients in the primordial nebula, or they could differ enough to force scientists to toss out their theories on Venus's origins.

In visible light Venus appears covered in a featureless white cloud layer, but a camera onboard Mariner 10 captured these cloud details in the ultraviolet range, which provided clues about the structure of the Venusian atmospherIn visible light Venus appears covered in a featureless white cloud layer, but a camera onboard Mariner 10 captured these cloud details in the ultraviolet range, which provided clues about the structure of the Venusian atmospherin a featureless white cloud layer, but a camera onboard Mariner 10 captured these cloud details in the ultraviolet range, which provided clues about the structure of the Venusian atmospherin the ultraviolet range, which provided clues about the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.

Venusian atmospheric dynamics, in ultraviolet light, show intricate meteorological patterns.

In the July 25 issue of SN: A special report on time, Kennewick Man's ancestry, sex - change lizards, Venusian volcanism, Earth's missing craters and more.

If you miss this event, there is a consolation prize: Because Venus circles the sun 13 times for every 8 times Earth does, Venusian transits come in pairs that occur eight years apart.

In 1975, Venera 9 became the first probe to send back pictures from the surface of another planet: fuzzy images of the rock - strewn Venusian landscape.

While the exact mechanism for charging and for initiating lightning within the Venusian clouds is not currently known (Yair 2012) it is nonetheless likely that cosmic ray ionization has an important role in this process as it is believed to be the primary source of atmospheric ions at middle and low altitudes.

Regarding the search for extraterrestrial life, the one major habitable zone in the inner solar system that has not been sampled at all is the Venusian cloud layer, which in terms of temperature, pressure and gravity is the most Earthlike extraterrestrial environment in the solar system.

It takes Venus 117 Earth days to rotate once, and 224.7 Earth days to complete an orbit around the sun, meaning there are less than two full days in a single Venusian year.

Detection of tremolite, a mineral created in the presence of water, could be used to ascertain how long any Venusian oceans lasted as a habitat for Earth - type life over the past 4.6 billion years of planetary history (more).

Dr. Sakanoi specializes in determining the variations in planetary atmospheres, such as Jovian aurora and Venusian clouds by obtaining continuous monitoring data with the T60 and T40 telescopes at Haleakala summit.

Two Chicago residents living in different parts of the Windy City awaken one morning to discover that legions of Venusian robots have destroyed most of the city.

Once upon a time Martians and Venusians met, fell in love, and had happy relationships together because they respected and accepted their differences.

«This is especially true of the mountain paintings and the circular canvases in the first gallery, among them «Night Above the Woods» (2001), a deep eggplant, and «the venusian atmosphere» (2001), a chalky violet.

Recent research (suppressed by the Venusian global warming mafia) shows that Martian Death Rays are in fact beneficial to agriculture, and will lead to a Redder, Kinder Earth.

Re # 7, while permanent venusian - style runaway warming is not possible now (until the sun becomes a lot hotter in billions of years), we could go into (what scientists have told me) is hysteresis, a really great warming for even up to 100,000 or 200,000 years, in which a lot of life dies out, before the world cools back down again.

In due course a Venusian Einstein would discover E = mc ^ 2 only to protest its more destructive applications by other Venusians.

There's no problem explaining it in our own atmosphere or the Venusian atmosphere because both a driven by massive heat engines.

The temperature difference between the Venusian day and night is quite small even though the Venusian day is over a 100 Earth days in length.

This condition exists in spite of the fact that the high reflectivity of the Venusian clouds causes the planet to absorb less solar radiation than Earth.

SummaryFor two years beginning in 2013, a large team led by Sanjay Limaye set out to combine and compare the following: Venusian atmospheric data collected by probes in the 1970s and 1980s (used to create the Venus International Reference Atmosphere, or VIRA) Venus Express data on the vertical and horizontal structure of the atmosphereEarth - based observations of the upper atmosphere temperature structure of Venus made since VIRAFigure 1a: Vertical coverage of post-VIRA atmospheric structure experi....

Then, for the benefit of the lay reader, who would not be expected to understand the clear (to a competent physical scientist) implication of this simply - stated fact, I wrote: «This in fact indicates that the Venusian atmosphere is heated mainly by incident infrared [not the VISIBLE portion, which is indeed largely reflected, defenders, but INFRARED] radiation from the Sun, WHICH IS NOT REFLECTED BUT ABSORBED [or allowed in to heat the lower atmosphere] by Venus's clouds, rather than by warming first of the planetary surface.

Instead, that property is almost axiomatic, and is used to describe extra-terrestrial climates (Sagan's hypothesis for the Venusian climate comes to mind) as well as a myriad of phenomena in our own atmosphere.

this allows the ocean's evaporative process to shed massive amounts of surface heat in a way that the venusian atmosphere could never do.

Second, robotic probes have measured Venus» atmosphere to be about 97 % CO2, and we can see from the image above (click for a larger version) that the absorption spectrum for CO2 (at Earth temperature and pressure — Venusian temperature and pressure increases the width of the absorption bands, making CO2 a stronger absorber in Venus» atmosphere than in Earth's) strongly overlaps the peak emission spectrum of Venus» surface.

# 422 wili: «Does anyone else reading the article — looking at the flat dashed line in figure three and putting that together with the fact that we know there will be other carbon feedbacks — come to my conclusion that this means we are now in a kind of runaway (not the Venusian kind, though)?

This same relationship seems to hold all throughout the Venusian atmosphere, so when you go to OTHER altitudes on Venus where the pressures are the same as on Earth, you see temperature differences in the same ratio, 1.176 (within a reasonable margin of error).

It turned out that the Venusians were highly advanced in bioscience (as one of the explorers put it, «they have forgotten more about organic chemistry and genetics than we'll ever know») and had biotechnology «indistinguishable from magic» — all of their «technology» consisted of living organisms, or materials produced by living organisms.

Once upon a time Martians and Venusians met, fell in love, and had happy relationships together because they respected and accepted their differences.