Sentences with phrase «of venusian»

(And of course, both Carl Sagan and James Hansen cut their scientific teeth on studies of the Venusian atmosphere.)

But exploration continued, with multiple probes landing throughout the succeeding decades, and much was learned about the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.

He was an astronomer on the Pioneer Venus project before he joined NASA GISS but he shows a total ignorance of Venusian geology.

This condition exists in spite of the fact that the high reflectivity of the Venusian clouds causes the planet to absorb less solar radiation than Earth.

Boiling seas, continents being covered by those same boiling seas, and all the rest of the Venusian tipping point fantasy.

The atmosphere of Venus is mostly CO2 but the atmospheric heat arises as a result of the mass and density of the Venusian atmosphere (apparently more than 90 times that of the Earth) not just the absorption characteristics of CO2.

Two Chicago residents living in different parts of the Windy City awaken one morning to discover that legions of Venusian robots have destroyed most of the city.

Better known as «Mystery», Erik von Markovik has a proven record of success when it comes to picking up women (yes, even the ones most men think are «out of my league»), which led to the founding of Venusian Arts.

Givenchy's iconic Loose powder Prisme Libre (CAD $ 69) is also part of the Venusian harmony of this collection.

While the large atmospheric pressure at the surface and the high altitude of the Venusian cloud layer appears to exclude the possibility of cloud - to - ground lightning (Gurnett et al. 2001; Aplin 2006), several authors have suggested that lightning discharges above, between or within clouds may occur (Borucki 1982; Russell & Scarf 1990; Gurnett et al. 2001).

However, the lack of radio observations by the Cassini spacecraft during two close flybys and the lack of optical detections by Venus Express as well as ground - based observers leave the question of Venusian lightning somewhat unresolved (Yair et al. 2008; Yair 2012).

Venus» composition is largely unknown because of a lack of Venusian meteorites found on Earth, and that mystery won't be unlocked anytime soon: No missions to Venus are planned.

One of the Venusian surprises discovered at that time is that radio waves are reflected differently at different elevations on Venus.

The other is one led by Glaze herself that would measure the makeup of the Venusian atmosphere.

In visible light Venus appears covered in a featureless white cloud layer, but a camera onboard Mariner 10 captured these cloud details in the ultraviolet range, which provided clues about the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.

Not exact matches

Detailed images could reveal the marks of ancient venusian plate tectonics.

However, a new study of the atmosphere suggests that clouds may have kept the planet cool enough to preserve the Venusian sea for billions of years — far longer than previously thought.

Studies of hydrogen molecules in the Venusian atmosphere by NASA's Pioneer - Venus probe indicate that the planet once had liquid water on its surface, perhaps even expansive oceans.

Suzanne Smrekar of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and her colleagues deduced that lava flows on the flanks of several Venusian volcanoes appear unweathered, meaning that the flows must be no more than 2.5 million years old.

Prospects for Venusian life have been dismissed because of harsh conditions on the planet's surface: there is no water, temperatures reach 477 °C and the atmospheric pressure is 92 times that on Earth's surface.

At altitudes of more than 3 kilometres above the planet's plains, Venusian mountains reflected Magellan's radar signals much more strongly than ordinary rocks, just as if they were covered by ice.

In the July 25 issue of SN: A special report on time, Kennewick Man's ancestry, sex - change lizards, Venusian volcanism, Earth's missing craters and more.

Toward the end of that year, though, the Pioneer Venus probe entered Venusian orbit — and immediately recorded suspiciously high levels of sulfur dioxide above the clouds.

In 1975, Venera 9 became the first probe to send back pictures from the surface of another planet: fuzzy images of the rock - strewn Venusian landscape.

Then again, with the surface of Venus being at almost 900 °F (500 °C) under more than 90 times the air pressure of Earth's atmosphere at sea level, with occasional showers of acid, it's not easy to test the properties of materials under Venusian conditions.

The first sighting of the light spectacle on another planet reveals properties of the mysterious Venusian clouds

The rapid cooling of the lava flows, if that's indeed what caused the transient hot spots, may be due to the exceptionally effective heat - transferring capability of the dense venusian atmosphere, they add.

The oceans will boil away and the atmosphere will dry out as water vapor leaks into space, and temperatures will soar past 700 degrees Fahrenheit, all of which will transform our planet into a Venusian hell - scape choked with thick clouds of sulfur and carbon dioxide.

Taylor says that the high levels of sulphur dioxide in the venusian upper atmosphere are also almost certainly due to recent volcanic eruptions.

The glory is a sensitive marker for conditions in the Venusian clouds, which, made of sulphuric acid and completely enveloping the planet, have long held a special fascination for planetary scientists.

Venus Express has also detected water molecules escaping into space, found concrete evidence for lightning in the venusian atmosphere, and provided infrared glimpses of the hot surface.

The hope is that this year's Venusian transit will provide a benchmark for further efforts to uncover the properties of these distant worlds (see «Transit of a lifetime: Why all eyes are on Venus now «-RRB-.

Keeping in mind the very low content of water in the Venusian atmosphere, it is not surprising to measure very low contents of H2 and H (the latter always dominant) in the upper atmosphere (Keating et al. 1985).

Thus, it is plausible that changes to atmospheric ionization rates due to cosmic ray variability may affect the occurrence of electrical phenomena in the Venusian atmosphere (Nordheim et al. 2015) hence manifesting a relation between space weather and meteorological phenomena.

Venus has an active mantle, but the structure of its crust and atmosphere prevent it from changing the Venusian landscape very often.

As SEP events may produce very large enhancements in the ion production rate in the Venusian upper and middle atmosphere, investigations of space weather effects at Venus are relevant to future missions to the planet, particularly those carrying low - frequency radar instruments (Nordheim et al. 2015).

Positive detections of radio wave emissions due to Venusian lightning have been reported (Ksanfomaliti et al. 1979; Taylor et al. 1979; Russell et al. 2007).

While the exact mechanism for charging and for initiating lightning within the Venusian clouds is not currently known (Yair 2012) it is nonetheless likely that cosmic ray ionization has an important role in this process as it is believed to be the primary source of atmospheric ions at middle and low altitudes.

Kargel's estimate should be considered to be a lower limit on when the planet dried up because it did not include the effect of clouds in the Venusian atmosphere.

Regarding the search for extraterrestrial life, the one major habitable zone in the inner solar system that has not been sampled at all is the Venusian cloud layer, which in terms of temperature, pressure and gravity is the most Earthlike extraterrestrial environment in the solar system.

Detection of tremolite, a mineral created in the presence of water, could be used to ascertain how long any Venusian oceans lasted as a habitat for Earth - type life over the past 4.6 billion years of planetary history (more).

In 2004, Schulze - Makuch and his colleagues announced their speculations that such microbes may survive in Venusian clouds with the help of molecular rings of sulphur to shelter from the Sun's ultraviolet (UV) radiation as Venus does not have a protective layer of ozone in its atmosphere.

You are sure to love your time with Venusian arts and his course will turn you into a master of seduction.

You can create and customize a male or female character based on one of three classes (Fighter, Engineer, Outcast), as well as one of three races (Human, Mercurian or Venusian).

Instead, the developers behind Incredipede and Pineapple Smash Crew have collaborated on one of the most bizarre and intriguing game concepts you'll see this year: an alien jellyfish procreation simulator set beneath the thick Venusian clouds, which challenges us to help an intrepid Cnidarian spread its seed and fertilise a variety of extraterrestrial flora.

«This is especially true of the mountain paintings and the circular canvases in the first gallery, among them «Night Above the Woods» (2001), a deep eggplant, and «the venusian atmosphere» (2001), a chalky violet.

[Response: Hansen's degree was in astrophysics, not astronomy, and dealt with radiative transfer in the Venusian atmosphere as a function of aerosols and greenhouse gases — pretty relevant I'd say.

Re # 7, while permanent venusian - style runaway warming is not possible now (until the sun becomes a lot hotter in billions of years), we could go into (what scientists have told me) is hysteresis, a really great warming for even up to 100,000 or 200,000 years, in which a lot of life dies out, before the world cools back down again.

Did you think that the Venusian atmosphere was transparent to most of the surface radiation at a peak wavelength of 3.9 μm?

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