Sentences with phrase «most solar systems»

Because most solar systems only send solar hot water to the backup heater when you are using hot water, the sun can only heat the remaining two - thirds of the energy used each day.

Most solar systems produce more electricity than is needed during the day.

Most solar systems might form with planets squished even closer together.

True, most solar system and astronomical phenomena are still calculated with Newton's hoary theory of gravitation, but we would be nowhere without our GPS gadgets, which work only once corrected for the effects of general relativity.

The above image shows the relatively circular orbits of most solar system planets, and the the highly elliptical orbit of Pluto.

Most solar system owners never do inspect panels for cleanliness or clean them however and their systems continues to perform well.

Not exact matches

So Mars, the moons of Jupiter, see if we went to maybe even Venus — Venus will be a little trickier — but for most of the solar system, you only need the spaceship.

Distributed solar systems require additional upgrades to the power grid, including enabling the grid to operate in both directions, and most utilities are pushing back against covering those upgrade expenses.

For example, if an A.I. is tasked with proving or disproving the Riemann hypothesis, one of the most important, unsolved problems in mathematics, it might pursue this goal by trying to convert the entire solar system into a computer, including the atoms in the bodies of whomever once cared about the answer.

Second, the Powerwall 2 storage system, which starts production this quarter at the Gigafactory, will take the energy that is generated by any source (whether from the solar roof, another solar power system, or even the grid) and use it when it's most beneficial, such as during the night, during a power outage, or when the customer can make money by doing so.

After skewering the proposed system («one of the most expensive per mile and one of the slowest in the world»), Musk issued an open - source design challenge: a 28 - passenger solar - powered pod capable of levitating through a system of tubes almost at the speed of sound, with a one - way ticket price of $ 20 and a total building cost estimated at $ 6 billion, less than a tenth of the budget for California's high - speed rail project.

If one market goes boom or bust (which has happened regularly in the solar industry) SunPower can adapt and move where it can build systems most profitably.

Most religions have consistently resisted progress — including the abolition of slavery; women's right to vote and choose contraception and abortion; medical developments such as the use of anesthesia; scientific understanding of the heliocentric solar system and evolution, and the American principle of state / church separation.

Except for Christianity, which made the momentous change, most major religious traditions have adopted the lunar calendar, even though it conflicts with the agricultural cycle and its solar system.

If the survival of the Christian faith were dependent on the earth sitting still, Christianity would have most certainly perished sometime in the 18th century when the existence of a sun - centered solar system became widely accepted by the scientific community and the public.

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Obviously you don't realize that an asteriod the size of just the Empire State Building that actually makes it to the surface of the earth at the average speed of most objects coming from the asteroid belt in our solar system would cause enough destruction and devastation on earth to wipe out most if not all of the planet.

[1] Most of the collapsing mass collected in the centre, forming the Sun, while the rest flattened into a protoplanetary disk out of which the planets, moons, asteroids, and other small Solar System bodies formed.»

My bad HG; well to answer the question I most liked why not just create our solar system.

In the world view we share we have all been made aware of the rather insignificant role played by the planet on which we live; we know something of the solar system, and we have had impressed upon us the unbelievably immense distances which separate us from most of the stars we see in the sky with our naked eyes.

The same materials can be found on the sun (which is a star)- and probably most of the material in our solar system.

On August 21st, all of North America will experience one of the solar system's most remarkable events: a solar eclipse.

Like most of Kepler's finds, they were discovered via transits — the shadows they cast toward our solar system as they cross the blazing faces of their stars.

«My findings indicate that a supernova shock wave is still the most - plausible origin story for explaining the short lived radioactive isotopes in our Solar System,» Boss said.

At the size of a school bus, it was bigger than Voyager and outfitted with the most sophisticated scientific instruments ever carried into the outer solar system.

There are just tremendous opportunities for science, to discover what the early solar system was like, whereas on Earth, the wind and the oceans have pretty much washed away most of the evidence.

Most of the planets in the Solar System have smaller bodies, or satellites, that orbit a planet.

Whatever you call may call it, Ceres is one of the most geologically interesting and strange objects in the solar system.

Most scientists think that the moon formed in the earliest days of the solar system, around 4.5 billion years ago, when a Mars - sized protoplanet called Theia whacked into the young Earth.

«We now know most planets in the galaxy are intermediate in size between Earth and Neptune but we don't have any examples of these worlds in our own solar system,» Dressing says.

An analysis of planets outside the solar system suggests that most hot, rocky exoplanets started out more like gassy Neptunes.

It is, at present, the most promising, most accessible place in the solar system to search for life.

In fact, it dominates a region larger than any of the other known planets — a fact that Brown says makes it «the most planet - y of the planets in the whole solar system.»

The bill would also set aside $ 100 million for a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa, whose underground ocean is considered one of the most hospitable places for life in the Solar System.

In Maxwell's time, most physicists thought that light, like sound, needed some kind of medium for transmission; the mysterious, invisible substance they hypothesized, called the luminiferous ether, would presumably be influenced by the motion of Earth around the sun and the movement of the solar system through the galaxy, a dynamic that stood to alter the speed of light depending on the relative direction from which that light came.

Benford's analysis convinced James Guillochon and Avi Loeb of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics that sailships might afford the most practical means of space travel, both within and out of the solar system.

The Kepler 90 solar system is like a cinched - up version of our own: Small rocky planets hug the star most tightly, while larger planets hang back.

«Until now, we've thought that the solar system was lacking in this most common type of planet.

Artist Ron Miller takes us on a journey to eight of the most breathtaking views that await intrepid explorers of our solar system.

It was perhaps the most fun year of working on a problem in the solar system that I've ever had.»

It gives further evidence of how Titan, despite its location in orbit around a gas giant in the outer Solar System, is one of the most Earth - like objects ever studied.

Swooping past Saturn's beautiful rings, the Cassini spacecraft starts to crack the code of the most complex structure in the solar system.

The most likely source is circumstellar discs — embryonic solar systems around young stars.

In June, planet hunters and theorists met on the Greek island of Santorini to mull over the most bizarre solar systems they've found to date.

A similarly widespread «polar wind» is strongly suspected to exist both on Mars and Venus — the two planets in the Solar System which are most Earth - like.

Most of the comets that astronomers study have made previous journeys into the torrid inner reaches of the solar system, often multiple times, as they orbit the sun.

This otherwise undistinguished satellite of Neptune, moderately lumpy and middling in size, travels on the most eccentric orbit of any moon in the solar system

Scores of moons have been discovered within our solar system, yet Earth's companion still stands out as one of the most remarkable

This could explain why some asteroids that venture into the inner solar system are pale, while most others are stained a darker hue by the bombardment of space particles (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature08709).

Comets are the most primitive objects in the solar system, preserved samples of the raw ingredients that formed Earth and the other planets.