Sentences with phrase «of the planet at»

We are decimating the natural environment, drawing down the nonrenewable resources of the planet at an astonishing rate, thereby accelerating the erasure of entire ecosystems and the extinction of thousands of million - year - old species — all in a few decades.

With the future of the planet at stake, they argue, they should only be raising the bar.

Inhofe may subscribe to the unscientific young earth view of creation, which puts the age of our planet at about 10,000 years.

The first attempts to do that relied on images of the planet at night.

Reilly explained that he was «fascinated in seeing imagery of the geology and ecology of our planet at scales that were impossible to achieve previously.»

If all goes well, by the end of the month «Flock 1,» as the group is called, will distribute its nanosatellites in Earth orbit, the better to photograph the complete surface of the planet at high resolution 365 days a year.

The eruptions that created the flow released enough toxic gas to off T. rex and company, and may have been triggered by the asteroid that smacked into the other side of the planet at roughly the same time.

Because Mercury rotates so slowly — once every 58 Earth days, compared to a Mercury year, a complete trip around the Sun, lasting only 88 Earth days — the part of the planet at dawn spends a disproportionately long time in the path of one of the solar system's primary populations of micrometeoroids.

«With the very survival of the planet at stake, we hope leaders will be inspired to act — especially in urban areas where an increasing majority of the world's population lives.

Images of this quality will provide the global context for Juno's close - up views of the planet at the same wavelength.»

Although the increased size of the E-ELT will be essential to obtaining an image of a planet at larger distances in the Milky Way, the light collecting power of the VLT is just sufficient to image a planet around the nearest star, Alpha Centauri.

Multiple observations indicate that the flowing water responsible for shaping and moving the rounded pebbles encountered in the vicinity of the rover landing area has long since been lost to space, though some of it may still exist deep below the surface of the planet at equatorial locations (water ice is known to exist near the surface at the poles).

This offset may be a result of the winds redistributing heat across the face of the planet at some 6,000 miles (9,700 kilometers) per hour, according to some computer models.

The more common exoplanet search technique, measuring stellar gravitational wobbles, would require one to two decades and longer to identify the orbital periods of planets at the distances of Jupiter and Saturn.

CTX images Mars at 6 m per pixel resolution, and has already mapped more than one third of the planet at that resolution.

Aside from the fact that there's no physical support from such a picture, this state of affairs is highly unlikely because you'd still have to account for things like the way the system responds to CO2 at the LGM, the observed radiative imbalance of the planet at present, the observed penetration of heat into the upper ocean, and so forth.

The phase variation can be modeled either by a planet with a geometric albedo of $ 0.30 \ pm 0.06 $ in the Kepler bandpass, or by thermal emission from the surface of the planet at $ \ sim $ 3000K.

As five impact craters on Mercury receive names, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is about to create another, since it has run out of propellant and is predicted to impact on the surface of the planet at 8:26 pm BST today.

CTX images Mars at 6 m per pixel resolution, and has already mapped more than two thirds of the planet at that resolution.

This sets the most likely age of the planets at 11.5 billion years, which is 2.5 times older than Earth and 2 billion years younger than the universe itself (around 13.7 billion years).

As of February 2010, CTX had covered more than 50 % of the planet at 6 m / pixel.

While other techniques are biased towards detecting planets close to their stars (such that 17 to 30 percent of Sol - type stars have been found to have such inner - orbit planets), gravitional lensing has found reveals the fraction of planets at farther orbits.

If 2017 has one overall message it's that as humans we must open up and work together, with the state of our planet at risk.

Aside from the fact that there's no physical support from such a picture, this state of affairs is highly unlikely because you'd still have to account for things like the way the system responds to CO2 at the LGM, the observed radiative imbalance of the planet at present, the observed penetration of heat into the upper ocean, and so forth.

Although this is an over simplified model, I believe it is closer to the truth than the current idea that a change in the height of layer of atmosphere near the tropopause, around 100 mb, can affect the temperature of the planet at the 1000 mb level.

One might hope to see Antarctica be a few ppmv CO2 less than the rest of the planet at all times during such a process.

«We will have the technology to set the mean surface temperature of the planet at the temperature we want,» he promises.

A second approach involved initialization of the model to the observed state of the planet at the beginning of a period of interest.

Greenhouse gas warming increases the energy content of the planet at the speed of light.

We understand why you can stand on the surface of the planet at rest until hell freezes over and gravity ain't gonna give you no heat!

And all of the above is without taking into consideration the very simple point that if we are way above the carrying capacity of the planet at present, with a billion people living a western lifestyle, then if 10 billion people are to be living a western lifestyle, we will need another 6 or 7 planets to provide for them, which is not possible.

Is that TSI at the top of the atmosphere as in 1360 W / m2 or averaged over the area of the planet at 340 W / m2?

In addition to maintaining 19 Earth - observing space missions, NASA also sends researchers around the globe to investigate different facets of the planet at closer range.

Not exact matches

We will dig into all of this with some of the smartest people on the planet at our 2nd annual Fortune Brainstorm Health conference in just a few weeks.

The goal wasn't to clean up the planet at once, but to challenge himself and see what change came of it.

While it's unclear so far which group, exactly, will be leading the charge, Inc. has confirmed the existence of at least one: BayShare, which describes itself as an «advocacy organization in the San Francisco Bay Area whose mission is to make the Bay Area the best place on the planet for sharing.»

With a net worth in excess of $ 66 billion, Amancio Ortega is the second - richest man in the world thanks to his control of the Spanish fashion behemoth Inditex, which Ortega — who started out as a delivery boy for a local clothing store at 14 — turned from a small - town dress shop into one of the largest fashion empires on the planet.

It's also helpful to remember the purple power stone is left on the planet of Xandar in the protection of the Nova Corps at the film's end.

Chances of getting hit are less than one in a trillion, reports CNBC's Morgan Brennan, with a look at the growing threat of space junk landing on the planet.

But I don't know of a rule book that says we can't make amazing profits and not wreck the planet at the same time.

I believe subconsciously we are always thinking of how we can make a difference at work, for our family and friends, for our customers, and impact billions of other people on our planet.

One day I saw him at one of the bars and said, «Tell me about the B Team,» the organization that focuses on people and planet first, then profit.

This fundamental realignment of the planets in the media universe is the topic of a massive new report from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, authored by Tow director Emily Bell and University of British Columbia assistant professor Taylor Owen.

At 5 am ET on Wednesday, NASA will fly its $ 3.26 billion Cassini spacecraft where no spacecraft has flown before — in the deepest region of Saturn's rings between the planet and its inner-most ring.

It was party time at the Planet Labs satellite factory, in an unkempt office in the trendy South of Market neighborhood here.

To broaden his liquid portfolio, CNBC's «Secret Lives of the Super Rich» took O'Leary to the Ty Bar at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York for one of the most expensive tastings on the planet — a $ 60,000 set of aged Balvenie whisky.

«As it turns out, one of the perhaps six people on planet Earth who could have looked at my cartoon and said «yes» was a woman married to a guy who was the spitting image of, and had the same job as, Dilbert.

«We have taken our telescope, and we have counted up how many planets are similar to the Earth in this part of the sky,» Susan Thompson, a Kepler research scientist at the SETI Institute, said during a press conference at NASA Ames Research Center on Monday.

For instance, companies participating in Blue Startups, an incubator from Honolulu - based Blue Planet Software, receive $ 20,000 in cash and a variety of professional services valued at more than $ 500,000.

«I think it is exciting - these are planets where you have evidence that they just formed, so we are looking at baby planets,» said David Sing, an Associate Professor of Astrophysics at Exeter University, to the Guardian.