Sentences with phrase «near the poles of»

There are also places near the poles of the moon where it stays light for months at a time.

Still no tropospheric hot spot near the equator, still no pronounced stratospheric cooling especially near the poles both of which are cornerstones of the global waming models, along with the more zonal (+ ao) atmospheric circulation pattern.

Changes in temperatures, which are magnified near the poles of our planet, are particularly problematic: «Earlier spring green - ups now occur before migrating herds arrive north.

Not exact matches

Deep in the lakes of a group of rocky, coastal islands near the south pole, the researchers uncovered an organism that resembles a bacterium, but is not.

Some locations near the lunar south pole, offering a continuous view of the universe, could be ideal for an astronomical observatory.

Supposed calamities like the accelerated rise of sea level, ocean acidification, more extreme climate, tropical diseases near the poles, and so on are greatly exaggerated.

One of the shops near me has «Happy Festivus» painted on its windows, complete with the «Feats of Strength» pole.

We also noted that this bipolar structure of the «Berlin» type leaves it open to serious distortion, since one pole may come to be stressed to the disadvantage or even the near exclusion of the other pole.

I'd been thinking childhood junky kinds of foods... more along the lines of cheesy burgery casseroley marshmallow - coated things one might not go near with a ten foot pole as an adult.

A few weeks before the match, as I hung on the outside fence near the 1/16 pole at Washington Park, suddenly there he stood, Swaps, all 1,000 gleaming pounds of him, with a face as finely chiseled as a cameo, gliding out of the grandstand shadows and into the afternoon sun.

PETCO, which owner John Moores says «will be the new standard for ballparks,» also boasts an existing factory building incorporated into the leftfield corner; a grassy park area beyond centerfield; and, because of a wacky configuration of walls and seating near the rightfield foul pole, the most mind - blowing corner since Haight and Ashbury.

As a static 2 metre + bean - pole under a near continuous bombardment of high balls he is always going to carry some threat.

And barely had the other horses hit the wire when one of the oldest and most poignant of racetrack rituals began to be played out near the «Äö √ Ñ √ ∂ «àö √ ± «àö «à» pole.

I won't ever give birth in a hospital again if it can be helped, and since homebirth is illegal in the state of IL, most providers won't come near me with a ten foot pole — even though I've already HAD a vbac, and my uterus has been «tested.»

Only 50 years ago, they could be seen perched on a tree or utility pole near any field of sufficient size.

Despite the worst ice conditions in years and a near catastrophic tent fire, we survived for 24 days on the ice and set the record for the first mother and son team to reach one of the Earth's poles by foot.

Set aside the campaign part for a second and picture the possible results if he'd run and won: Rudy as merely one of 100 legislative blowhards in the U.S. Senate, and near the bottom of the seniority totem pole?

After finding signs that Jupiter's icy moon emits repeating plumes of water near its southern pole, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope hope to detect more evidence of the geysers.

Consequently, though the sun be ready, vegetation must wait on the coming of the water, and starting from near the pole, proceeds equatorward.

Since the 1960's scientists thought that only in permanently shadowed areas in craters near the lunar poles was it cold enough to accumulate this volatile material, but recent observations by a number of spacecraft, including LRO, suggest that hydrogen on the moon is more widespread.

Images from the High Resolution Stereo Camera on Mars Express show raft - like ground structures — dubbed «plates» — that look similar to ice formations near Earth's poles, according to an international team of scientists.

In craters near the south pole of the moon, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter found some bright areas and some very cold areas.

«We found that the coldest places near the moon's south pole are also the brightest places — brighter than we would expect from soil alone — and that might indicate the presence of surface frost,» said Elizabeth Fisher, the lead author of the study, published in Icarus.

In these comparisons, the coldest areas near the south pole also were very bright, indicating the presence of ice or other highly reflective materials.

But when the sun ejects major blasts of particles in flares and solar storms, these belts overflow and send electrons streaming toward Earth along the looping lines of the magnetic field, which intersect the planet near the north and south poles.

Climate is the main reason NASA announced last December that it would build its outpost near one of the lunar poles.

This false color image, taken in near - infrared light, shows the raging eye of the 1,200 - mile - wide storm at Saturn's north pole.

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

A USGS scientist's 1977 photograph near the town of Mendota in central California uses a telephone pole to show how the ground had effectively collapsed, sinking some 30 feet.

Over the past decade, NASA has sent the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to map the Moon; the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite to crash land near the south pole in search of water; the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory to plumb the Moon's gravity field; and the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) to study its tenuous outer atmosphere.

An avalanche of data released from NASA's New Horizons probe, which flew past Pluto on 14 July, show the dwarf planet has a pair of potentially volcanic mountains near its south pole.

This image, shot September 11 as Cassini swung past the moon at a distance of about 119,049 kilometers, shows Titan's lake region near its north pole.

Lakes near the north pole have not changed in years of observations, Turtle says.

However radar observations have shown that lakes cover only a few per cent of the surface and are concentrated near the poles, making Titan much drier than Earth.

A dark region near its north pole, dubbed Mordor, might be the result of gases from Pluto's atmosphere condensing on the moon's surface.

According to theory, these fields can funnel part of the star's energy back onto the surface, creating hot spots near the magnetic poles.

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

The earlier evidence for water on the moon hinted only at small deposits near the poles, probably left there by the impact of icy meteorites.

LRO's early results have already caused a stir: The Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment sent back the first global temperature maps of the moon, revealing ultracold pockets in permanently shadowed portions of craters near the south pole.

Until recently, however, this inclination to move in the direction of the nearest pole was not really understood.

These patches extend over large areas of 500 to 1000 km near the pole and also give rise to strong northern lights displays.

The magnetic field lines originate in the Earth's core and emerge near the poles, where their angle of dip — or inclination — relative to Earth's surface is almost 90 degrees.

This 500 - kilometer - wide ice ball shoots out large geysers of ice crystals, which apparently originate from underground lakes near the satellite's south pole.

These popcorn - sized puffs of ice crystals have long been thought the source of the bromine oxide that triggers the deposition of the mercury from the atmosphere and the depletion of ozone near the poles.

Two years ago tomorrow, the Phoenix Mars Lander plopped down near the north pole, and for 5 months it transmitted data indicating the onetime presence of water beneath the frozen surface.

With the sun now shining down over the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan, a little luck with the weather, and trajectories that put the spacecraft into optimal viewing positions, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has obtained new pictures of the liquid methane and ethane seas and lakes that reside near Titan's north pole.

And yes, it is kind of near the pole, but if a star is really high up you say it's overhead or you say it's near the zenith if you want to get into astronomical jargon, but it's not in the west; it just doesn't work out, it's not westward from the pole.

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.

The second cell consists of air rising in the middle latitudes — about 30 to 60 degrees north and south — and then falling again near the poles.

That favors a model in which much of Io's heat rises from deep within the moon and emerges near the poles, rather than spreading uniformly from shallower reservoirs of magma.