Sentences with phrase «near the equator of»

Apollo Missions 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17 landed near the equator of the moon in part because that area was easy to land and relatively obstacle free.

The rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, and a British - built lander called Beagle 2 will take surface samples from dry regions nearer the equator of the planet and perform similar analyses to reveal details of the planet's geological past.

Not exact matches

From the evolution of differing skin types to cope with the differing exposures to solar radiation as one nears the equator.

For example, the researchers found higher - than - average concentrations of water in lunar volcanic deposits near the Moon's equator, where background water in the soil is scarce.

Planets usually orbit near the plane of their star's equator.

He found that although the amount of energy required is constant, new species form more quickly near the equator because heat speeds up both metabolism and the rate of genetic mutations.

Desert locusts are a major pest on numerous crops and pastures throughout a vast area of almost 30 million km2 covering Africa north of the equator, the Near East, the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian subcontinent.

University of Pittsburgh biologists Matthew Koski and Tia - Lynn Ashman recently looked at 34 different populations of silverweed cinquefoil, a widespread plant native in temperate zones on both sides of the equator, and found that its flowers were darker near the tropics.

The Earth's magnetic field takes an average of only 7000 years to reverse its polarity, but the switch happens much more quickly near the equator, according to the most comprehensive study yet of the last four reversals.

The map reveals that tropical rainforests near the equator are actively sucking up carbon, while the Corn Belt in the eastern United States, near the end of its growing season, is also a sink.

Clement found that the duration of the transitions varied with latitude, from 2000 years near the equator to 11,000 years nearer the poles.

This west - to - east flow of air in the Northern hemisphere is maintained by the gradient of heat between the cool Arctic and warmer areas near the equator.

She expected to find deep - sea biodiversity paralleling that of the Northern Hemisphere — rich near the equator but thin near the poles.

However, a storm called Typhoon Vamei violated that edict in December 2001, arising just 150 kilometers north of the equator in the South China Sea, near Singapore.

If we ever attempt to change the climate of Mars, the trees of Pico de Orizaba can tell us how much we'd have to warm Mars in order to have trees growing near its equator.»

In their new study, the BARREL researchers» major objective was to obtain simultaneous measurements of the scattered particles and of ionoized gas called plasma out in space near Earth's equator.

Powerful eruptions can wreak havoc on monsoons by shifting and weakening the Intertropical Convergence Zone, a belt of low pressure near the equator that drives nearby precipitation patterns.

This image shows QBO amplitude near the equator at a height of 11 miles: Observed values from balloon wind measurements from 1950s to present; simulations from a climate model driven with observed concentrations of greenhouse gases from 1900 to 2005 and then with projected increase through 2100.

They arbitrarily divided the planet into cells of 1 degree of latitude by 1 degree of longitude — squares roughly 80 kilometres to a side at middle latitudes, although much larger near the equator.

«Our map shows clearly the geographic trend in Africa of primate faces getting darker nearer to the equator and lighter as we move farther away from the equator,» Lynch Alfaro said.

For instance, UV radiation amounts to a mere 7 % of solar energy, but its variation produces changes in the stratosphere near the Equator, all the way to the polar regions, which govern climate.

First, they would need to build a base tower approximately 50 kilometers tall, out of the wind for stability and near the equator for alignment with the geostationary Earth orbit (GEO).

Here is a tropical mammal that has survived and evolved for hundreds of millennia on little atolls near the equator.

Three spots around the sphere's equator mark where two of the particles would collide, and a line drawn over the ball, which must avoid those spots, maps how near the objects get to each other.

Using data from 10 satellites, Christopher M. Cox of Raytheon Information Technology and Scientific Services (ITSS) and Benjamin F. Cho of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center determined that the gravitational forces near the equator have grown since 1998.

Using the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility and Gemini North Observatory, planetary scientist Emily Schaller of the University of Arizona identified a massive storm that appeared near Titan's equator.

Indeed, the controllers of the Huygens probe were prepared for a splash when it parachuted down near Titan's equator.

Regions at the planet's equator seem once to have been near a pole; possibly the entire lithosphere has shifted in relation to the axis of spin.

A world blessed with a half - dozen space elevators constructed cooperatively, radiating from the equator like lotus petals, could provide near - universal access to space at a payload cost of as little as $ 10 a pound.

The findings from researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science provide new evidence that climate change in the tropical Pacific will result in changes in rainfall patterns in the region and amplify warming near the equator in the future.

«Now we finally have information about what kinds of animals were present in areas farther to the south, and their similarities and differences to the animals living near the equator.»

But the authors of the new study — published today in the journal Nature — say the relatively mild warming could have outsized impacts on cold - blooded species that live near the equator.

RSL are mostly found on steep rocky slopes in dark regions of Mars, such as the southern mid-latitudes, Valles Marineris near the equator, and in Acidalia Planitia on the northern plains.

Final sightings of the spectacle came from Bermuda and a steamer ship near the equator.

«We found that where ocean temperatures warmed beyond a certain point as we neared the equator, at about 29 degrees, the pace of larval development slowed,» says study lead author, Dr Ian McLeod.

As the sun flushes heat into our atmosphere at a mind - boggling rate of 175 quadrillion watts, the air near the equator absorbs more energy than the air near the poles.

Furthermore, a deeper upper layer of warm surface water may weaken the cold tongue if the Ekman pumping doesn't reach down below the thermocline to bring up colder water, and weakened trade winds would have a similar effect through reduced Ekman pumping near the equator.

Maunakea, Hawaii — Striking images of a storm system nearly the size of Earth have astronomers doing a double - take after pinpointing its location near Neptune's equator, a region where no bright cloud has ever been seen before.

«Until Juno's arrival, our understanding of Jupiter's atmosphere was based on what we can see from the side, near the equator,» says Steven M. Levin, a Juno project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in an email.

During the summer of 2017, the Cassini team used Keck Observatory to take near - infrared spectroscopic data of the regions near Saturn's equator, just as Cassini was diving between Saturn and its rings during its final orbits.

Images of Neptune taken during twilight observing revealed an extremely large bright storm system near Neptune's equator (labeled «cloud complex» in the upper figure), a region where astronomers have never seen a bright cloud.

«I predict that due to the loss of these atmospheric whirlpools, the average temperature on Jupiter will change by as much as 10 degrees Celsius, getting warmer near the equator and cooler at the poles,» says Marcus.

According to Wordsworth, «Even then, however, the warm / wet early Mars does not explain the patchwork of Martian water erosion features and valley networks observed on the planet today, and why these features tend to be concentrated near the planet's equator.»

Scientists declare the development of an El Niño when they observe a temperature increase of at least 0.4 degree Celsius (0.72 degree Fahrenheit) for five months in a row in the eastern Pacific near the equator.

After the removal from the data set of short periods of temperature perturbation that relate to near - equator volcanic eruption, we use derivatives to document the presence of a 5 - to 7 - month delayed close relationship between SOI and GTTA.

Auroras are visible almost every night near the Arctic and Antarctic Circles, which are about 66.5 degrees north and south of the Equator.

Hadley circulation is the main mechanism for moving the surplus of energy at near the equator to high latitudes and plays a key role in the general circulation of the atmosphere.

This Hubble telescope picture of Saturn captures a rare storm that appears as a white arrowhead - shaped feature near the planet's equator.

According to an international team of researchers, the rapid pace of climate change is threatening the future presence of fish near the equator.

Most of the radio radiation is in or near the galactic equator.