Sentences with phrase «north polar region»

A recent, widely publicized research study has suggested that the ocean's «thermohaline» circulation that keeps the Earth's north polar region warmed by the flow of tropical water northward could suddenly shut down.

Storm systems and weather activity unlike anything encountered in the solar system are on view in these color images of Jupiter's north polar region from NASA's Juno spacecraft.

Cassini used its Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph to capture this final view of ultraviolet auroral emissions in Saturn's north polar region on Sept. 14, 2017.

Located mostly in the Arctic north polar region in the middle of the Northern Hemisphere, the Arctic Ocean is almost completely surrounded by Eurasia and North America.

Scientists with Cassini's radar investigation will be looking this week at their final set of new radar images of the hydrocarbon seas and lakes that spread across Titan's north polar region.

Pioneer 11 captured a fuzzy parting shot of the north polar region as it departed Jupiter for Saturn.

To cap it all, scientists announced in January that Cassini's powerful imaging radar had uncovered a system of more than 75 lakes, some up to 40 miles across, dotting the north polar region.

Titan's north polar region, which is bejeweled with sprawling hydrocarbon seas and lakes, was dark when Cassini first arrived at the Saturn system in 2004.

It is filled with liquid hydrocarbons, such as ethane and methane, and is one of the many seas and lakes that bejewel Titan's north polar region.

This three - image mosaic is the highest resolution view yet obtained of Enceladus» north polar region.

Blooms of algae in the Arctic Ocean could add a previously unsuspected warming feedback to the mix of factors driving temperatures in the north polar regions up faster than any other place on the planet, according to the authors of a new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Blooms of algae in the Arctic Ocean could add a previously unsuspected warming feedback to the mix of factors driving temperatures in the north polar regions up faster than any other place on the planet, according to the authors of a new study in

Shown in red are areas of Mercury's north polar region that are constantly in shadow in every image that the MESSENGER spacecraft has acquired to date.

Mercury's north polar region, in a radar image obtained with the Arecibo radio telescope.

Pioneer 11 captured a fuzzy parting shot of the north polar region as it departed Jupiter in 1974 for Saturn.

Later in the mission a much larger system of clouds was discovered over the north polar region.

The Cassini spacecraft discovered an extensive system of lakes filled with liquid hydrocarbons in the north polar region.

Using infrared data from NASA's Juno spacecraft, scientists have assembled a 3D map of Jupiter's north polar region, showing details of a huge central cyclone and eight surrounding storms.

Mercury's north polar region has radar - bright spots in cold craters sheltered from sunlight which may to harbor water ice (more).

Note: Gore isn't just talking about about the North polar region.

That line is 0, meaning zero ice, essentially nothing but liquid water at the Earth's north polar regions; that means this graph gives you an absolute scale.

The arctic temperatures can be measured directly, so why not measure them and publish them, and then we can see reasonably easily whether these atmospheric temperatures at the North polar regions are higher than they were in 1998, for example, and whether they are high enough to bring about exceptional ice - melt.

Less ice cover will also affect the socio - economic and ecosystems in the north polar region.

For much of European history, the north polar regions remained largely unexplored and their geography conjectural.

In the very high latitudes of the north polar region the temperature change is declining with latitude rather than increasing.

If the increase in temperature in the north polar region is taken as a verification of the theory and global warming model then the record in the south polar regions is a denial of the validity of the theory and model.

The north polar region increased in temperature about 83 percent more than the tropic region.

Here, a color - coded map showing Earth's north polar region and very low ozone in the stratosphere at an altitude of 12 miles (20 kilometers) in mid-March 2011, the peak of ozone loss.

It is highly concentrated in the North polar region, where it is actually 5 times greater than the average global rise — 2.5 to 3 C in the last 25 years!

In mid-March 2011 MLS measured very low ozone amounts (purple and grey colors over the north polar region) at an altitude of approximately 12 miles (20 kilometers).

And sea ice dwindled to record low levels in both the Arctic and Antarctic, with the north polar region warming twice as fast as the global average.