Sentences with phrase «of the atmosphere of»

But there is more of the atmosphere of lip service or sheer antagonism towards women in politics.
Along with this, the philosophical notions about soul, about immortality, about a realm above and beyond the hurly - burly of this world, present in the tradition of Greek philosophy and variations on that philosophy in the early Christian era, had become so much part of the atmosphere of thought that inevitably these two affected Christian thinkers.
«What we have to be careful to do, in the media and in politics, is not create some kind of atmosphere of excuse for their behaviour.»
The shouting is part of an atmosphere of violence and fear which permeates the institution.
«If there were a long term and significant increase in the pollutant content of the atmosphere either of particles or of carbon dioxide, the potential damage to the global environment could be severe,» he said.
Looking ahead, the team wants to use the NASA / ESA / CSA James Webb Space Telescope — scheduled to launch in 2019 — to capture an even more complete spectrum of the atmosphere of WASP - 39b.
When certain elements or compounds are exposed to thousands of atmospheres of pressure, they become superconductors.
The result, published May 15 in Nature Astronomy, could lead to a better understanding of the atmospheres of other exoplanets.
Carbon monoxide is a major constituent of the atmospheres of giant planets.
Fredric Taylor, whose team at the University of Oxford has already made detailed studies of the atmospheres of Venus and Earth, comments: «We are very keen to compare the main features of the atmospheric circulations of all three Earth - like planets for the first time.»
«With this result we are also closing in on the detection of the atmospheres of small planets with ground - based telescopes,» says co-author Mercedes Lopez - Morales of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).
«That's interesting from a scientific point of view because it likely preserves in tiny bubbles a record of the atmosphere of Mars hundreds of millions of years ago.
Fundamental experimental data were derived from the observations of airglows by the Spectroscopy for Investigation of Characteristics of the Atmosphere of Mars (SPICAM) instrument on - board Mars Express: while NO is useful to constrain dynamics around the 100 km level (Gagné et al. 2013), CO and CO2 + UV emissions allow the direct monitoring of the efficiency of ionization processes (Stiepen et al. 2015).
In addition, she is working on the development of new observational techniques for the detection and characterization of the atmospheres of Earth - like planets to be discovered by the upcoming NASA TESS mission.
During solar flares, variation in the solar flux in the spectral range extending from the UV to the X-ray wavelengths can have a direct effect on the ionization of the atmospheres of planetary bodies as well as on their heating and dimensions (for details see Schunk & Nagy 2009).
«With this result we are also closing in on the detection of the atmospheres of small planets with ground - based telescopes,» Mercedes Lopez - Morales of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the study's co-author, said in the statement.
The simulations are necessary to establish models of the atmospheres of far - distant worlds, models that can be used to look for signs of life outside the solar system.
According to NASA, clouds are important for understanding the «planet's energy balance and water vapor inventory» and will shed insight into the daily and seasonal behavior of the atmosphere of the planet.
Using the combined efforts of the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, astronomers were able to perform the most detailed analysis of the atmosphere of an exoplanet of this size.
Astronomers are able to analyze the composition of the atmosphere of exoplanets like WASP - 19b by observing the scattering of light from the parent star (Credit: ESO / M.
EChO is a mission dedicated to the observation of atmospheres of planets around nearby stars.
New Horizons observations of the atmospheres of Pluto and Charon.
On December 1, 2010, a team of astronomers announced the results of the first analysis of the atmosphere of a super-Earth planet, GJ 1214 b, using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope.
Small stars harbor most of the planets in the universe, and their ultraviolet emission could be a determining factor in the evolution and present chemical state of the atmospheres of orbiting planets.
Astronomers have made the first direct detection and chemical analysis of an atmosphere of a planet that exists outside our solar system.
The SPICAV system (Spectroscopy for the Investigation of the Characteristics of the Atmosphere of Venus) consisted of two spectrometers, an infrared one, created by Russian specialists, and an ultraviolet one, made by French scientists.
Still it has its merits: graphics are outstanding, and so is the combat, but it lacks most of the atmosphere of the previous installments.
It's probably not really the emotionally charged crowd - pleaser it tries to be, but as a sports docudrama, it does a respectable job in creating a good sense of the atmosphere of the times, and the importance of the game to a country that suffered through Watergate, Vietnam, the Iranian hostage crisis, unbelievable inflation, gas shortages, and the Cold War.
Since he became entrapped within the confines of the atmosphere of Earth, the Surfer has made many attempts to escape, often with the aid of the Fantastic Four.
Then, the chapter closes with a bang — a proper spacewalk just outside of the atmosphere of a nearby planet, in which we're slinging ourselves from one piece of debris to another, eventually taking shelter in another spoke of the station.
Visions may lack some of the atmosphere of Jessabelle, which used its Louisiana locations to great effect, and Fisher lacks the compelling, quirkier presence of the earlier film's Sarah Snook, but Visions serves as further evidence that Greutert is one of the most interesting mainstream horror directors around — I can easily see a The Conjuring - style success in his future — and that despite its many diminishing - returns franchise films (Paranormal Activity, Sinister, Insidious, et al.), Blumhouse is far from running out of ideas.

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So there's been a lot of great work by NASA and other organizations in early exploration of Mars and understanding... what Mars is like, where could we land, what's the composition of the atmosphere, where is there water — water ice, I should say — and so we need to go from these early exploration missions to actually building a city.
New natural gas pipelines do not face the same kind of opposition as oil pipelines because the product is a gas and, in case of a leak, it escapes into the atmosphere rather than fouling waterways and soil.
So the great thing about going to space is there's no friction, so once you're out of the atmosphere, it will be as smooth as silk — no turbulence, nothing.
The waves of layoffs created an atmosphere wherein everyone thought they might be next, including Thompson.
And it has a very helpful atmosphere which, in the case of Mars, being primarily CO2 with some nitrogen, and argon, and few other trace elements, means that we can grow plants on Mars just by compressing the atmosphere.
There are many conference centers popping up all over the UK either inner city or on the outskirts of towns and create a professional atmosphere.
But because Mars has an atmosphere, albeit not a particularly dense one, you can remove almost all of the energy aerodynamically.
Decades of scientific investigation across multiple lines of evidence corroborate a powerful yet inconvenient truth: Human - caused global warming and climate change is real, and it's briskly accelerating as we dump more carbon into the atmosphere.
So we should, particularly with six ships, have plenty of landed mass to construct the propellant depot, which will consist of a large array of solar panels — very large array — and then everything necessary to mine and refine water, and then draw the CO2 out of the atmosphere, and then create and store deep - cryo CH4 and O2.
There is a sincere atmosphere of giving back to the community throughout the company.»
There, wells and communities are often in close proximity, and pushback from locals has all but banned the practices of flaring (burning atop a standing pipe) and venting waste gas straight into the atmosphere.
Under cap and trade, the government sets a maximum cap on the units of carbon dioxide that can be released into the atmosphere while providing permits to companies.
A little gratitude can go a long way to improve the overall atmosphere of your company.
Another «if» regarded the moon's water - enriched atmosphere: «If there is a thin atmosphere around Europa, it has the potential to block some of the light of Jupiter, and we could see it as a silhouette,» Sparks said in the release.
The skies above are becoming more and more accessible thanks to companies like SpaceX that are finding ways to drastically reduce the cost of a flight beyond Earth's atmosphere.
«The great thing about going to space is there is no friction, so once you are out of the atmosphere, it is smooth as silk — no turbulence, nothing.
An employee who decided to stay at Zappos wrote on Glassdoor on March 31 that Zappos is «still a great place to work» on account of its benefits, pay, and its employees, but that it's necessary to deal with a «disruptive atmosphere» and «bothersome social experiments.»
It will add to the relaxing, separated atmosphere of the room and improve the break time your employees have on a regular basis.
For much of the history of space exploration on Earth, the powerful rockets used to propel people and cargo to orbit or beyond typically end up in a watery grave at the bottom of the ocean or eventually burning up in the atmosphere.
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