Sentences with phrase «nightside of»

One possible explanation is that the Hubble observations were more sensitive to the perpetual dark nightside of the planet where the atmosphere is slightly colder and the photochemical mechanisms that destroy methane are less efficient than on the dayside.

This area of Saturn was actually on the nightside of the planet when photographed, but it had rotated into daylight by the time Cassini met its fiery end there.

However, the distribution of material from the dayside to the nightside of a planet is only likely to occur on worlds with a high surface gravity.

The nightside of the planet is actually quite hot.

Not exact matches

This will reveal both the signatures of atmospheric ingredients such as water, methane, and carbon dioxide, and also how heat flows from the planet's dayside to its nightside.

The team's measurements suggest the planet's nightside would actually exhibit a ruddy glow because its temperature appears to be in excess of 1,000 degrees Celsius — as hot as a blast furnace.

Assuming Proxima b is tidally locked, Webb could then detect changes in the planet's thermal glow as its cold, nightside and warm, sunlit dayside shift in and out of view across one complete orbit, rather like watching phases of the moon as it circles Earth.

The dayside of a planet close to an M dwarf, however, might become so hot that water escapes to space; on the frigid nightside, the atmosphere could freeze to the surface.

A key finding of this research indicates that there is still no clear understanding of how the material that is moving from the hot dayside of the planet onto the cold nightside both cools and alters it chemical composition.

Twice the size of Jupiter, KELT - 9b is likely to be tidally locked, with a scorching dayside always facing the star and a cooler nightside facing away.

The haze scatters sunlight into the nightside, teasing researchers with glimpses of odd landforms faintly illuminated in Pluto's twilight.

Because planet b is tidally locked and the outer atmosphere is so efficient at re-radiating heat, its «nightside» stays dark and cold (top), unlike bands of even temperature on a Jupiter - like planet (shown below — more).

The spacecraft, which arrived at Mars on Sept. 21, 2014, has images from the nightside and the dayside of the planet.

AOES Medialab, ESA Alternative, larger and jumbo illustrations of hydroxyl in Venus» nightside by ESA and C. Carreau.

A tenuous, thin layer of ozone has been detected high in Venus» atmosphere that probably forms in its nightside (more).

The JWST will have a mirror 6.5 metres (21.3 feet) in diameter, seven times larger than that of the HST, and will orbit the Sun in a Lissajous pattern around the second Lagrangian point, about 1.5 million km (930,000 miles) from Earth on the planet's nightside.

Grant talks about there being a «nightside» to the tree of life, functioning as a «mirror image» of its «dayside».

In the colour - coded image, which simultaneously shows dayside and nightside auroral activity, the most intense levels of activity are red, and the lowest levels are blue.

From solar influence weighting to % of white ground cover to when are clouds on the dayside VS lack of clouds on the nightside, we have miles to go before gaining a good understanding of cause and effect with climatology.