Sentences with phrase «narrow ring»

This leaves a bright, narrow ring of the solar surface visible, looking much like a ring of fire.

Thanks to interactions between gas and dust, a debris disk may, under the right conditions, produce narrow rings on its own, no planets needed.

Wide rings show years of growth and adequate rain, while narrow rings indicate dry years.

That sampling rate was fast enough to discern that there were two flickers before and after the main occultation, or blockage of light — evidence of two dense, narrow rings with a small but distinct gap between them.

«If the moon broke apart at 1.2 Mars radii, about 680 kilometers above the surface, it would form a really narrow ring comparable in density to that of one of Saturn's most massive rings,» Mittal said.

At 1851, for example, there is a dark fleck of discoloration and a particularly narrow ring, a sign of poor growth during that year.

He adds that the F ring might serve as a model for other narrow rings around the gas - giant planets of the solar system «and perhaps even for rings found around extrasolar planets.»

«All we need to produce narrow rings and other structures in our models of debris disks is a bit of gas, too little for us to detect today in most actual systems,» said co-author Marc Kuchner, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md..

This book only exists as a pdf; but you can create your own hard copy by printing it out on 3 - hole punched paper and popping it into a narrow ring binder.

The planetary cleanse would have left behind a narrow ring of debris out of which Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars formed.

In 2013, Lyra and Kuchner suggested that PeI could explain the narrow rings seen in some disks.

During his examination, he noticed a discrepancy in the amount of ring material on the edge of the planet's alpha ring — one of the five narrow rings that encircles Uranus.

The discovery of more shepherd moons offer scientists an explanation as to why Uranus has narrow rings, as opposed to Saturn's extensive ring system.

A study that appeared in the 2013 Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, Calif., by a team led by Jim Shirley, a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, presented evidence for the existence of a narrow ring of phyllosilicates on the moon's surface, which were uncovered through an analysis of photographs taken with Galileo's Near - Infrared Mapping Spectrometer.

When you study them from very close quarters you may notice that the material they're made from seems slightly different in a narrow ring where the disc meets the hub.

In most of North America, trees grow well and put on a wide ring when it's wet, and grow poorly and put on a narrow ring when it's dry.

Unusually cold eastern Pacific temperatures during La Niña lead to drought, less growth and narrower rings.

Samsung has mitigated that problem somewhat with enhanced styling in the S 4, lining the device's edge with a thicker faux - metal trim rail accented by a narrow ring that shines brilliantly in the sunlight.

Not your typical version, this one sports actual steps instead of narrow rungs, and a standing platform that allows me to reach ceilings up to 10 feet.