Sentences with phrase «of planet surfaces»

In combination with a booster and jump capability it makes for a rather fun way to tackle the often rocky and mountainous terrain of the planet surfaces.

The Martian volcano Olympus Mons is about three times the height of Mount Everest, with gentle slopes that sprawl across more than 150 miles of the planet surface.

It can not possibly work for 71 % of our planets surface!

Still, that little work to throw off equipartition has shown it likely, by a probability of something like 7 / 8ths, that significant warming has occured in those unmeasured expanses filling some sixth of the planet surface.

As an addendum, the acidification of oceans is very relevant, but scientifically, the effects of greenhouse gas emissions should always have included two - thirds of our planet surface.

In any case Gavin admitted that the TLT should be at least 0.95 of the faster warming land surface record and left unsaid what the specific higher ratio to the heat - uptaking ocean's 70 % of the planet surface was.

Not exact matches

This event, called a «transit,» will make the planet appear as a small black dot that moves across the surface of the sun for just over seven hours.

Consider that according to the United Nations, some 30 % of the planet's surface is used to raise livestock.

Some of the apps that are available for the new subscription service include Everest VR, which lets people climb the dangerous peaks of Mount Everest in virtual reality, and Mars Odyssey, a VR recreation of Mars's surface that lets people walk around the red planet like astronauts.

«Curiosity is the biggest, most complex spacecraft ever sent to the surface of another planet,» says Veronica McGregor, a NASA News and Social Media Manager, in the report.

Aspen trees appear to grow independently of one another, but just below the surface the trees are linked by a root system that ranks among the largest on the planet.

NASA officials hope to get the industrious Curiosity Mars Rover robotic vehicle digging again on the surface of the red planet.

Curiosity is also decked out with several cameras, which she uses to take amazing pictures of the surface of the planet.

The plutonium powered robot will explore the surface of the Red Planet for upwards of 10 years at a cost of $ 2.5 billion (# 1.5 billion).

This will help NASA learn if it would be safe for humans to roam the surface of the planet.

According to a big chunk of ocean surface temperature recorded by boat, the oceans were not warming nearly as quickly as the rest of the planet.

Magma in the mantle of the planet rises into the crust, but is unable to immediately breach the surface.

When that happens, chunks of the space station are likely to rain down over our planet's surface.

A key hurdle for any lengthy human mission on the surface of a planet or moon, as opposed to NASA's six short lunar surface visits from 1969 to 1972, is possessing a power source strong enough to meet the various energy needs to sustain a base but small and light enough to allow for transport through space.

The scene was much different about 4.5 billion years ago, though: Water covered about 20 % of the planet's surface, and 400 - foot - tall megatsunamis raced across ancient oceans.

«Thousands of new small satellites could be put into low orbit, making access to high - quality internet from any point on our planet's surface finally possible.

While the livestock sector supports livelihoods of one billion of the world's poor, and its products provide one - third of our protein intake, it poses serious threat to our environment: it is responsible for 14.5 percent of GHG emissions, 29 percent of total water footprint of agriculture, and occupies 30 percent of the land surface of the planet.

The planets orbit an «ultracool dwarf,» a star much smaller and cooler than the sun, but still possibly warm enough to allow for liquid water on the surfaces of at least two of the planets.

Planet owns and operates the largest private satellite fleet in orbit, and provides the most consistently up - to - date images of our Earth's surface

A hairless ape» — Schoenberg;» A mere insect, an ant...» — Church;» An accidental twig» — Gould;» A rope stretched over an abyss» — Nietzsche;» A fungus on the surface of one of the minor planets» — Du Maurier;» A jest, a dream, a show, bubble, air...» — Thornbury; and» I see no reason for attributing to man a significant difference in kind from that which belongs to a grain of sand» — Oliver Wendell Holmes.

No, God has not left His name etched onto the surface of planets.

It is rather ironic that we can forecast the far distant future of this planet more clearly than we can foresee the immediate human future on its surface.

You can not be serious... if you are of the school of thought that God created the Earth, then you have to believe that he created the cycles that keep the Earth sustainable and able to provide life... storms move moisture and heat across the earths surface and stabilize our atmosphere, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions recycle the rock and minerals on the planet and make more usable land and add richness to soils.

Even around the surface of the planet we can still take them for granted — there is only a momentary delay when we telephone someone on the other side of the earth.

The immense mass of the earth attracts the relatively minute mass of our bodies, and so we stay on the surface of the planet even though it is whirling us around its center at about 1,600 kilo - meters per hour.

Only after these voyages were humans able to draw a reasonably reliable map of the planet's surface, showing how the various continents and islands each form part of one global world.

Population pressures and human technology are together adversely affecting the natural conditions of the surface of the planet in the following ways:

This phenomenon of divergence functions rather like the lines of longitude on the surface of the planet, growing further apart as they move away from their point of origin at the earth's pole.

«What we have described as globalization is remarkably close to Teilhard de Chardin's planetization, in which «[mankind, born on this planet and spread over its entire surface, come [s] gradually to form round its earthly matrix, a single, major, organic unity, enclosed upon itself.4 Thus the globalization of humankind could lead to the formation of a new kind of living entity — a social organism — on the same cosmic principle as that by which atoms join to form molecules, molecules join to form mega-molecules, mega-molecules unite to form living cells, and innumerable cells constitute an organism.

Obviously you don't realize that an asteriod the size of just the Empire State Building that actually makes it to the surface of the earth at the average speed of most objects coming from the asteroid belt in our solar system would cause enough destruction and devastation on earth to wipe out most if not all of the planet.

We can not resolve this contradiction, between the congenital mortality of the planets and the demand for irreversibility developed by planetized life on their surface, by covering it up or deferring it: we have finally to banish the specter of Death from our horizon.

First the vitalization of matter, associated with the grouping of molecules; then the hominization of Life, associated with a super-grouping of cells; and finally the planetization of Mankind, associated with a closed grouping of people: Mankind, born on this planet and spread over its entire surface, coming gradually to form around its earthly matrix a single, major organic unity, enclosed upon itself; a single, hyper - complex, hyper - centrated, hyperconscious arch-molecule, co-extensive with the heavenly body on which it was born.

Calculations indicate that in several ways it is quite an Earth - like planet: its radius is 1.2 to 2.5 times that of Earth; its mass is 3.1 to 4.3 times greater; and, crucially, its orbit lies within its star's «Goldilocks zone», which means its surface temperature is neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water - and therefore potentially life - to exist on its surface.

Never mind that there simply doesn't exist enough water to cover the entire surface of the planet.

As a result the surface is much hotter on the near side than on the far side, and the most habitable zone would be the intermediate area between the light and dark sides of the planet.

How are we to prevent this compression of Mankind on the closed surface of the planet (a thing that is good in itself, as we have seen, since it promotes social unification) from passing that critical point beyond which any increase in numbers will mean famine and suffocation?

This is certain, that it must proceed from a cause that penetrates to the very centres of the sun and planets, without suffering the least diminution of its force; that operates not according to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles upon which it acts (as mechanical causes use to do), but according to the quantity of the solid matter which they contain, and propagates its virtue on all sides to immense distances, decreasing always as the inverse square of the distances....

The human mass, because on the confined surface of this planet it is in a state of continuous additive growth, in numbers and interconnections, must automatically become more and more tightly concentrated upon itself.

Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China.

We've been to the bottom of our oceans, we been to the surface of our moon, we've sent robots hundreds of thousands of miles to explore the surface of other planets.

The thinking behind Marsbees is that the drone swarm will be able to explore the surface of the Red Planet in conjunction with a rover, which will serve as a mobile beehive.

Take the risk out of by - product contamination by using the planets strongest, and safest oxidizer to assure microbe free surfaces.

There is a good reason for that: Although rainforests cover only 2 percent of the earth's surface, these ecological powerhouses are critical to nearly every aspect of the planet's health — including our very ability to breathe.

, you have yourself just about the richest chocolate chia seed pudding on the surface of the planet.

Without it you would have lived an unconscious life and barely scratched the surface of all that is magical on this planet.