Sentences with phrase «into earth»

To put that in perspective, if the heat generated between 1955 and 2010 had gone into the Earth's atmosphere instead of the oceans, temperatures would have jumped by nearly 97 degrees Fahrenheit, the report said.

18 Without water, ocean crust would not sink back into the earth's mantle.

The results could prove useful for weather forecasters, since these solar wind streams rotate with the Sun, sweeping past Earth at regular intervals, accelerating particles into Earth's atmosphere.

In general, it is well known that seawater penetrates into the Earth's interior through cracks and crevices along the plate boundaries.

The results could prove useful for weather forecasters, since these solar wind streams rotate with the Sun, sweeping past the Earth at regular intervals, accelerating particles into Earth's atmosphere.

Tubes of concrete and steel extend anywhere from a few hundred feet to two miles into the earth.

The infamous space rock that slammed into Earth and helped wipe it clean of large dinosaurs may have been a binary — two asteroids orbiting each other.

When HAYABUSA returns to Earth, a re-entry capsule bearing a surface sample from the asteroid will separate from it and plunge into the Earth's atmosphere.

From Pluto in this scale model, to reach the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, you'd have to travel some 2900 kilometers: roughly the distance between Memphis and San Francisco, or about how far you'd have to dig straight down into the Earth before reaching its outer core.

The team dug into the earth, dark and streaked with tawny - colored clay, with shovels and pickaxes.

The eruption also produced erratic weather and spectacular sunsets throughout the world for many months afterwards, as a result of sunlight reflected from suspended dust particles ejected by the volcano high into Earth's atmosphere.

You decommission a weapon of mass destruction, which carried as its payload the means of destroying everything we cherish, and you convert that into a bus that launches a spacecraft into Earth's orbit, which is a means for exploring the universe.

More than 150 years ago the Chinese drilled one kilometer into the earth to extract brine for making salt.

On Friday, IAU and NASA scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena gave the 30 - to 70 - meter - wide asteroid a one in 500 chance of smashing into Earth on 29 September 2030.

When the Chicxulub asteroid slammed into Earth about 66 million years ago, it obliterated 80 percent of Earth's species, blasted out a crater 200 kilometers across, and signaled an abrupt end to the Cretaceous Period.

This fall a converted Russian intercontinental ballistic missile is scheduled to launch Cosmos 1, the world's first solar sail spacecraft, into Earth orbit.

A rocket would pose little or no threat, as it would burn up almost entirely in the atmosphere before smashing into Earth.

The most well - known parts of the carbon cycle occur at or near the Earth's surface, but recent studies have hinted the carbon cycle might extend much deeper into the Earth's interior than is generally thought.

The US company says that because the rocket can make repeated flights and needs little maintenance, it would slash the cost of transporting payloads into Earth orbit, making space flights more routine.

It turns out that water contained in some minerals that get pulled down into Earth due to plate tectonic activity could, under extreme pressures and temperatures, split up — liberating hydrogen and enabling the residual oxygen to combine with iron metal from the core to create a novel high - pressure mineral, iron peroxide.

The Optical Transient Detector, an experimental NASA detector recently lofted into Earth orbit, offers hope that longer advance warnings may be possible.

Occasionally, they would get close enough to gravitationally tug the moon away from the equatorial plane, before crashing into the Earth.

Led by Carnegie's Ho - kwang «Dave» Mao, the research team believes that as much as 300 million tons of water could be carried down into Earth's interior every year and generate deep, massive reservoirs of iron dioxide, which could be the source of the ultralow velocity zones that slow down seismic waves at the core - mantle boundary.

The object that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago wiped out the nonavian dinosaurs and many other groups but largely spared species in freshwater ecosystems, a disparity explained by a new study.

Paleoclimatologists instead look into Earth's history to a time when the planet was warmer than it is today, about 3 million years ago.

Precious metals like gold and platinum should have sunk into the Earth's core as the planet formed, leaving almost nothing on the surface.

Such a fracture, says Duarte, is evidence of an «embryonic subduction zone,» where a new edge is formed, then forced under the remainder of the plate, into the Earth's molten mantle.

I was looking at a painstaking simulation of what Venus would look like if it were terraformed — remade into an Earth - like planet with water, oxygen, and a life - friendly climate.

In a subduction zone, a heavy oceanic plate meets a second, lighter continental plate and moves under it and into the earth's mantle.

Now, White House science adviser John Holdren is renewing his call for a new nomenclature to describe the end result of dumping vast quantities of carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping gases into Earth's atmosphere: «global climate disruption.»

The researchers were looking at rocks from the Ries crater (inset) of southern Germany, a 24 - kilometer - wide depression formed about 14.6 million years ago by a meteorite crashing into Earth with the force of 1.8 million Hiroshima bombs.

Riding cooler downdrafts that crash into Earth's surface, the pollen shrapnel can be spread across tens of kilometers.

To look deeper into Earth's past, the team went to the Jack Hills region of Western Australia, which is famous for its four - billion - year - old zircon crystals.

«By understanding the processes at work at Venus and Mars, we will have a more complete picture about how terrestrial planets evolve over time and obtain insight into the Earth's past, present and future.»

Lal calculates that land - use changes such as these have stripped 70 billion to 100 billion tons of carbon from the world's soils and pumped it into the earth's atmosphere, oceans, and lakes since the dawn of agriculture.

There is an ongoing debate about when sulfur - oxidizing bacteria arose and how that fits into the earth's evolution of life, Czaja adds.

Many of these roads will slice into Earth's last wildernesses, where they bring an influx of destructive loggers, hunters and illegal miners.

«Imaging Earth's plates once they have sunk back into the Earth is very difficult,» said Lara Wagner, from the Carnegie Institution for Science and a principal investigator of the PULSE Peruvian project.

If a star started out with 1.4 times the mass of the sun or less, it will become a dense white dwarf, packing the mass of the sun into an Earth - sized volume.

CMEs can spark powerful geomagnetic storms if they slam into Earth's magnetic field.

n isolated, iron - rich bay in the heart of East Africa is offering scientists a rare glimpse back into Earth's primitive marine environment, and supports theories that tiny microbes created some of the world's largest ore deposits billions of years ago.

We have sent robots to places humans could never have survived and peered into the cosmos with instruments far more capable than our human senses, all for a small fraction of what it costs to send a living, breathing person into Earth's orbit.

Only a gigantic disaster, for example if another planet crashed into Earth, could release this hard - bound carbon.

While the shock waves from CMEs pour energy into Earth's upper atmosphere, puffing it up and heating it, they also cause the formation of the trace chemical nitric oxide, which then rapidly cools and shrinks it, she said.

While CME material slamming into Earth's atmosphere can cause temperature spikes of up to 750 degrees Fahrenheit, the nitric oxide created by the energy infusion can subsequently cool it by about 930 F, said Knipp.

No matter how you burn it, you still have to mine it — dumping West Virginia mountaintops into nearby rivers, gouging huge scars into the earth in Montana or Wyoming, and exposing miners to the risk of injury or death.

So Loeb and colleagues calculated just how big an asteroid, how strong a supernova, or how powerful a gamma - ray burst would have to be to inject that much energy into Earth's oceans.

Auroras — both the aurora borealis in the Northern Hemisphere and the aurora australis in the Southern Hemisphere — appear when charged particles from the sun, carried by a solar wind, run headlong into the Earth's own magnetically charged atmosphere.

So if plate movements lead to one continent crashing into another, then instead of one being pushed deep into the Earth, its rocks can be pushed up into mountain ranges.

When the earth intersects this orbit in its annual trip, it can run into this debris, which burns up on entry into the earth's atmosphere, producing a visible shower of meteors.