Sentences with phrase «of radiation from the sun»

These solar storms are technically called solar flares and are giant eruptions of radiation from the sun's atmosphere that cause significant brightening of the area where they occur.
The Earth receives a continuous influx of radiation from the sun.
The surface of Mars today — as seen from the myriad of robotic space missions sent to explore our next - door neighbor — appears cold and desert - like, and its whisper - thin atmosphere doesn't shield the planet from a bombardment of radiation from the Sun.
About direct heat emissions I have seen a figure quoted of 0.1 C or 0.3 % of radiation from the sun.
The only time the Arctic ocean or Antarctic ocean is a net absorber of radiation from the sun is in midsummer.
Pekka, «About 0.2 % of radiation from the sun has the wavelength in the interval 3.25 - 3.4 µm.»
About 0.2 % of radiation from the sun has the wavelength in the interval 3.25 - 3.4 µm.
Greenhouse Effect As sunlight enters the Earth's atmosphere, some of the radiation from the sun is reflected back into outer space But, some of that radiation.
About 49 % of the radiation from the sun is infrared.

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Darin Toohey, a professor at the University of Colorado's atmospheric and oceanic sciences department and one of the paper's authors, says black carbon absorbs shortwave radiation from the sun, causing the atmosphere to heat up.
There was some form of canopy made of of a water vapor which shielded everything from the suns harmful types of radiation.
Christendom is wrought full of many religious diversisms that may endure till the world fries from either the sun expanding or the galactic elements sending a great burst of gamma radiation to destroy half of this world's facing such a catastrophic thing!
• We are depleting the ozone layer, which protects us from the harmful effects of the sun's radiation.
Weather is cause by the interaction of natural forces in the Earth's atmosphere and fueled by radiation from the Sun.
The canopies on this stroller are capable of being rotated so that you can protect your kids from aggressive radiation from wherever the sun might shine.
UV radiation from the sun can damage not only the skin of your eyelid but also the cornea, lens and other parts of the eye.
Ultraviolet radiation from the sun and artificial sources is the most preventable risk factor for all forms of skin cancer, including melanoma.
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.
The study notes that indoor tanning products can produce 10 to 15 times as much UV radiation as the midday sun, and supports the recommendation of medical groups, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, to minimize ultraviolet exposure, including from indoor tanning.
The solar storms alone could zap the planet with radiation bursts thousands of times more intense than the normal activity from our Sun.
With the southern sun beating down through clear waters, tropical corals need something to protect their delicate tissues from damaging doses of ultraviolet (UV) radiation.
The UV index is an international standard measurement of how strong the ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun is at a particular place on a particular day.
There is a well - described association between UV radiation exposure from the sun and the development of melanoma.
The spectrum of radiation from a black body is completely described by its temperature, so if the Sun were a perfect black body this is all the information sunlight would contain.
The GPS data, which dates from December 2000, fill a hole in studies of space weather, the complex interplay of Earth's magnetic field with bombarding radiation from cosmic rays and the sun.
This layer of the atmosphere forms when radiation from the sun strips electrons from, or ionizes, atoms and molecules in the atmosphere between about 75 and 1,000 kilometers above Earth's surface.
The dominance of this one very hot spot, from which most of the radiation is emerging, is totally different from what we see in the sun, says Andrea Dupree of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
On Earth, a strong magnetic field and a thick atmosphere help protect life from radiation blazing from the sun and the rest of the universe.
The feeble glow of microwaves from the sun is absorbed by our air on the way down, anyway, so unless the core somehow also strips off Earth's atmosphere — in which case we have bigger problems than solar radiation — we should be safe enough from microwaves if our planet's center stops spinning.
Although Proxima Centauri's dimness provides the planet with a balmy climate, the star is prone to outbursts of harsh X-ray and ultraviolet radiation, which could damage any chance of life on the planet — X-rays hit the surface 400 times more often than those from the sun pummel Earth.
Asteroids also contain an abundance of water, which, aside from serving as hydration during space travel, could be used as a shield to protect spaceships from the sun's radiation or to produce hydrogen - and oxygen - based rocket fuels.
Geoengineering schemes use two ways to offset this process: They either remove the gases from the atmosphere, allowing more radiation to exit, or deflect a portion of the sun's light — about 1.8 percent should do the trick — reducing the amount of radiation absorbed by the earth.
In one of the two species tested, 68 % of specimens that were shielded from higher - energy radiation from the Sun were revived within 30 minutes of being rehydrated.
They were likely well adapted to lower and more variable levels of ultraviolet radiation from the sun than the new human arrivals from Africa were accustomed to.
Given the revised timeline in this region, Willenbring and colleagues determined that the increased precipitation resulted from changes in the intensity of the sun's radiation on the Earth, which is based on the planet's tilt in orbit.
Titan's atmosphere is full of methane, which should react with ultraviolet radiation from the sun to produce liquid ethane.
The spacecraft's telescopes are sensitive to radiation from the hot outer atmospheres of stars like the Sun and white dwarfs, formed when stars about the size of the Sun reach the end of their lives.
The haze results from chemical reactions in the upper atmosphere, where ultraviolet radiation from the sun ionizes nitrogen and methane, which react to form tiny hydrocarbon particles tens of nanometers in diameter.
On Earth, temperature inversion occurs because ozone in the stratosphere absorbs much of the sun's ultraviolet radiation, preventing it from reaching the surface, protecting the biosphere, and therefore warming the stratosphere instead.
A round - trip journey to Mars would probably kill a crew of astronauts, unless they had some futuristic defense against radiation from the sun and from galactic cosmic rays.
The United States Department of Health and Human Services proclaimed in 2002 that ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun and artificial sources, such as tanning beds and sun lamps, is a known carcinogen.
Human beings are fragile things, and for the period of time it takes to get them to Mars and back you have dangerous radiation from the sun and the galaxy.
The largest of these eruptions cause what is known as space weather — the radiation, energetic particles and magnetic field releases from the Sun powerful enough to cause severe effects in Earth's near environment, such as the disruption of communications, power lines and navigations systems.
This is where radiation from distant stars is brought to a focus by the Sun's gravitational field, which would allow a visiting probe to resolve objects at the centre of...
For example, from laboratory experiments we can determine the amount of amino acids produced per photon of ultraviolet radiation, and from our knowledge of stellar evolution we can calculate the amount of ultraviolet radiation emitted by the sun over the first billion years of the existence of the earth.
An X-ray spectrometer onboard the spacecraft measured the X-ray radiation from the planet's surface, produced by solar flares on the sun, to determine the chemical composition of more than 5,800 lava deposits on Mercury's surface.
Black carbon warms the atmosphere because of its ability to absorb radiation from the sun, but its effect can be especially pernicious in polar regions, where, falling on bright ice, the soot diminishes the regions» ability to reflect away heat.
After spending one year mapping Bennu's surface, OSIRIS - REx will drift down to a carefully chosen spot — within the lip of a shallow crater would make sense, since materials there are more shaded from the sun's destructive radiation.
The hard covering, or exine, of each grain has to be tough enough to protect its cargo from even the sun's radiation.
In Finland and in other countries far from the Equator, UVB radiation from the sun is a sufficient source of vitamin D during the summer months, but outside the summer season, people need to make sure that they get sufficient vitamin D from food or from vitamin D supplements.
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