Sentences with phrase «meteor trails»

Meteor trails act like neon signs for radio telescopes that pick up these static bursts and across the sky.

Lovell was persuaded by James Stanley Hey that the echoes on the surplus ex-Army radar equipment he was using were meteor trails and not cosmic rays.

Between 2000 and 2013, they identified 33 such events (including the meteoroid that blazed into the atmosphere and detonated over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in February 2013, see image; the large blip in the meteor trail at right denotes where the 500 - kiloton airburst occurred).

A rapidly rotating shutter in front of the open lens makes it possible to photograph the meteor trail in short segments, from which the velocity and deceleration of a meteor can be computed.

This long - exposure photograph shows a meteor trail (center) against the backdrop of the Milky Way galaxy as a mobile phone tower under construction is pictured in the foreground near Loikaw, Kayar state in Myanmar, Oct. 11, 2014.

Not exact matches

If you see a meteor... notice whether it leaves a persistent train — that is, an ionized gas trail that glows for a few seconds after the meteor has passed.

A yearly meteor shower arises when particles shed by a comet spread into a long trail, drifting along the comet's entire orbital path around the sun.

In some cases, light flashed repeatedly in the same channel like the lingering trail of a meteor, instead of disappearing with the rest of the sprite.

The team theorises we'll find more interstellar debris entering our solar system along the the same steep path, akin to how comets leave behind a trail that results in meteor showers when Earth passes through it.

Each Perseid meteor is part of a swarm of sand - grain - size bits of space dust that create a white - hot trail of incandescent gas when they crash into Earth's atmosphere, about 50 to 100 miles up.

15 To communicate over long distances, NATO and the National Weather Service still bounce radio signals off the ionized trails left by meteors when they enter Earth's atmosphere.

During the entry of a meteoroid into the upper atmosphere, an ionization trail is created, where the molecules in the upper atmosphere are ionized by the passage of the meteor.

3 Technically, a meteor (from the Greek meteoron, meaning «phenomenon in the sky») is merely the streak of light we see trailing a meteoroid.

Artist's concept: Mercury appears to undergo a recurring meteor shower, perhaps when its orbit crosses the debris trail left by comet Encke.

Burning red - hot from its passage through the atmosphere and trailing streaks of vapour, the meteor train moved south - east, passing just a few kilometres north of New York and then out over the Atlantic Ocean.

Direct photographs of a meteor's trail (the column of ionized gases formed by the passage of a meteoric body through the upper atmosphere) taken at two points on the Earth's surface several kilometres apart yield the most accurate data for tracing the path of a meteor.

Radar pulses (short bursts of radio - frequency energy) emitted from a ground - based transmitter are reflected by a meteor's trail.

If the comet's path is just right, Earth passes through the dust trail and we get to view a meteor shower.

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Their largest success comes in Neo's exhilarating sense of hypersonic speed, players thundering around an eclectic assortment of 16 tracks that see you blazing a trail of glory through wintery climbs, down breathtaking canyons, and in the midst of peltering meteor showers.

Following hot on the trails of the game's mysterious meteor, Fortnite Season 4 has finally made its big reveal.

His rhythmic cuts energise the canvas and the void beyond, immortalising the gliding motions of his hand like trails of meteor or rocket.