Sentences with phrase «of outer planet»

I stepped into the highlands of Namibia and saw the desertification of the place, the arid environment reminding man of the loss of water in places once considered the source of water, and a looming submerging of the coastal areas in the event of a large scale heating of the outer planet leading to the accelerated melting of the ice caps.

The best method I have come up with so far would be to plot the data excursions from the expected past 6558 day patterns, by looking at the 5 to 10 day long disruptions caused by the current 6558 day period heliocentric (or Synod) conjunctions, as the corrective algorithms to adjust the inner planet patterns for the effects of the outer planet modulations.

We report here the characterization of an USP planet with a period of 0.28 days around K2 - 141 (EPIC 246393474), and the validation of an outer planet with a period of 7.7 days in a grazing transit configuration.

The collection will help scientists to better understand not only how the atmospheres of the outer planets function, but also the atmospheres of Earth and planets beyond the solar system.

The Jupiter maps, first in series of annual portraits of the outer planets, also reveal rare wave structures that scientists haven't seen for nearly 40 years.

The images are part of the Outer Planets Atmospheres Legacy program or OPAL.

Studying such moons is relevant to conditions in our early solar system, Mittal said, when it's likely there were many more moons around the planets that have since disintegrated into rings — the suspected origins of the rings of the outer planets.

Mittal said it's not clear whether the dust and debris rings would be visible from earth, since dust does not reflect much sunlight, whereas ice in the rings of the outer planets makes them easily visible.

For instance, Lo has shown that the manifolds surrounding the libration points of the outer planets all intersect.

A few decades before a close encounter, at most, astronomers would observe a strange perturbation in the orbits of the outer planets.

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched in 1977 to take a grand tour of the outer planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

Shprits added that similar wave generation mechanisms may also be taking place in the magnetospheres of the outer planets, close to the sun and in distant corners of the universe.

Pluto and most moons of the outer planets consist of rock and water ice in varying amounts.

Such tugs may have shifted the orbits of the outer planets in our own solar system billions of years ago — perhaps even kicking a now - lost world into the cold depths of space in the process.

This image shows the sun and the orbits of the outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

The radiation belt environments of the outer planets are quite different from the one of the Earth, mainly due to the presence of moons and rings embedded in these systems.

In 1988, however, numerical calculations of the outer planets showed Pluto's orbit to be «chaotic» and the idea of a chaotic solar system was proposed in 1989 by astronomer Jacques Laskar, now at the Paris Observatory.

A hydrogen explosion like that of the Hindenburg could occur on Earth, but not on one of the outer planets.

«And there isn't enough free oxygen in the atmospheres of the outer planets to allow that to happen.»

at this scale, the orbits of the inner terrestrial planets are very small, and thus can not be seen as clearly as the orbits of the outer planets.

In the second panel, Sedna is shown well outside the orbits of the outer planets and the more distant Kuiper Belt objects.

This dust is the remnants of outer planets and comets that might have once orbited this star.

If, instead, you would look at barycentric Keplerian elements, you would see them change hundreds of times faster, but most of that would be oscillations at the orbital periods of the outer planets like Jupiter and Saturn.

For our earlier discussion the most significant observation is that the magnetic fields of outer planets can not penetrate to inner solar system due to the influence of solar wind.

The plasma makes it impossible for the magnetic fields of outer planets to penetrate inner solar system.

As opposed to the longer period cycles of synod conjunction of the outer planets, which jointly swings the sun and the inner planetary system, around the SSB which beats the two long period set together, the inner planets at a rate of once every 17.95 Years and the outer planets periodicity of ~ 179.5 years.

This feature alone can be used as a daily forecast, for the next 18 years, from the repeatability of the global circulation patterns driven by the moon's tidal effects and modulated by the passing of the outer planets heliocentricly.

Not exact matches

The two nuclear - powered probes launched 40 years ago and became the first and only robots to take close - up photographs of Uranus and Neptune, the planets» moons and rings, and other objects in the outer solar system.

As part of the series — produced by Darren Aronofsky and narrated by superstar Will Smith — several astronauts give personal anecdotes and perspectives about the planet based on a place few humans who have actually visited outer space.

In addition, since its inception in 1993, Wild Planet Toys has conducted annual social assessments of its inner and outer workings to make sure that the company is adhering to its stated values.

Before it and after it, Jesus is drowning all the people on the planet, casting disobedient people into outer darkness and enjoying the smoke of tormented believers as it rises up before him for all eternity.

Pictures of the planet, taken from outer space, have impressed indelibly in our collective psyche, just how beautiful the earth is and how much we depend on her abundance.

Zoos would be regarded as barbaric as 14th century prisons, and we would subordinate our own desires for immortality to the cold hard reality of an uncaring Universe in which every species on the planet lives in a narrow 7 mile wide soap film below which there is 1,000 degree magma and above which there is the near absolute - zero vacuum of outer space.

John Glenn, our first American astronaut, took from outer space the only picture of the planet that had ever been taken, and he took it, they say, on a $ 45 camera that he bought at the local drug store the night before he took the trip.

Human beings are adapted to the material circumstances of many of the locations on our planet; we can not survive unsupported in outer space.

Is it not possible that God may have chosen our insignificant little planet, located on the outer rim of a huge galaxy, to be the Galilee of the cosmos?»

(and spell kroenke with the lower case k, as we don't think of him as a person, but rather a greedy lizardmen from outer space, who came to our planet to rid us of natural resources and join forces with crab people to bring humanity to it's knees).

Stars form from whirling disks of material; the centers collapse to form stars, and the outer parts can coagulate to become planets like Earth.

Scientists had recently discovered that every 200,000 years, on average, churning in the hot liquid metal of Earth's outer core causes the planet's whole magnetic field to flip.

Heat from Earth's inner core, which is as hot as the surface of the sun, churns an outer core of molten iron and nickel, generating a magnetic field that deflects lethal cosmic and solar radiation away from the planet.

It might have stripped off the outer layers of a nearby star, caused a pair of stars to interact and consumed the released gas, or swallowed some planets whole.

Pluto and Charon make sense only if hundreds or thousands of dwarf planets once roamed the outer solar system.

Future observations and studies into the dynamical lifetimes of non-resonant planet - crossing orbits in the far regions of the outer solar system could help to further test the case for the existence and whereabouts of a ninth planet, Malhotra and her co-authors write.

«We find no evidence of the orbit clustering needed for the Planet Nine hypothesis in our fully independent survey,» says Cory Shankman, an astronomer at the University of Victoria in Canada and a member of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS), which since 2013 has found more than 800 objects out near Neptune using the Canada - France - Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii.

«Although we were initially quite skeptical that this planet could exist, as we continued to investigate its orbit and what it would mean for the outer solar system, we become increasingly convinced that it is out there,» says Batygin, an assistant professor of planetary science.

The images, taken over a 10 - hour period, created two massive maps of the entire planet, allowing scientists to measure the speeds of Jupiter's winds, identify different events in its atmosphere, and track changes in the outer layers of the planet.

The outer layers of the planet — the mantle and the crust — had barely any platinum and gold left.

Six planets orbit a star roughly the size of the sun, and like our solar system, the outer planets are gas giants while the inner ones seem to be denser.

The new maps of Jupiter are the first created under the outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program, which will provide Hubble with time each year to study the outer planets.

The innermost region of the Earth's outer core periodically flows faster or slower, and this action «tugs» at the planet's magnetic field, says Gillet.