Sentences with phrase «on giant planets»

Liu, J., and T. Schneider, 2010: Mechanisms of jet formation on the giant planets.

It also means that we can focus on the «biggest picture» questions: How did the jets on the giant planets come about?

Looking farther, into the outer solar system, Webb's observations will give us a better picture of the seasonal weather and climate on our giant planets and their moons.

Although northern lights also exist on giant planets such as Jupiter and Saturn, the newly discovered aurorae are thousands of times more powerful; furthermore, the same electrons that trigger these aurorae may drive weather patterns on brown dwarfs, some of which have clouds.

Much like the ancient holiday of Saturnalia, when Roman masters swapped roles with servants, the recent buzz surrounding Saturn has mainly focused not on the giant planet but on its satellites.

Not exact matches

Officials from 195 countries, from giants like the U.S. to the tiniest impoverished states, agreed on the world's first global climate - change deal on Saturday evening, committing the world to drastically cutting back carbon emissions and transforming the planet's energy mix over the next several decades.

No company on the planet is serving you more ads in more corners of the Web than the search giant.

But in sharing detailed images of giant rockets, spaceships, fuel pods, and other crucial components of his Interplanetary Transportation System (ITS), Musk left out some important stuff, including where he plans to fit 100 to 200 passengers on each trip to the red planet.

After Jeff Bezos» net worth soared Thursday to make him the richest person on the planet, Amazon's earnings report brought the tech giant back down to earth just hours later.

Jupiter's atmosphere features colossal cyclones and rivers of ammonia welling up from deep inside the solar system's largest planet, researchers said on Thursday, publishing the first insights from a NASA spacecraft flying around the gas giant.

One demo Magic Leap gives to potential employees and partners is «Star Wars» - themed — the user is placed on Hoth, the ice planet, among giant AT - AT robots.

As for me, I can't believe in an human - like being that designed and jump - started the universe 13.8 billion years ago and set aside a planet for His special favorite creations, so He'd have someone to keep Him company and sing songs praising Him, then gave Bronze Age hermits a book of His orders to mankind that includes «thou shalt not round thy head nor cut thy beard» on penalty of eternal suffering... just CA N'T, any more than I can force myself to believe the world rests on the back of giant turtle.

Wenger seems to be on a different planet 2 % of being a giant, a giant in the second half of the table.

Juno, NASA's new mission to Jupiter, reaches the giant planet on July 4, 2016.

Life as we know it could not exist on the gas - giant planet, and its nearby suns would incinerate any cities all on their own.

Published on Aug. 28 in Nature Communications, the research revealed an entirely new type of superionic ice that they call the P21 / c - SI phase, which occurs at pressures even higher than in the interior of giant ice planets of our solar system.

Many scientists have puzzled over how life could have arisen on a planet that was essentially a giant snowball.

Also on the list are 67 planets roughly the size of Earth, give or take a thousand miles or so in radius; 288 «super-Earths» up to twice Earth's diameter; 662 Neptune - size planets; and 184 giants rivaling or exceeding Jupiter in size.

«This result is unique because it demonstrates that a giant planet can form so rapidly that the remnant gas and dust from which the young star formed, surrounding the system in a Frisbee - like disk, is still present,» said Lisa Prato of Lowell Observatory, co-leader of the young planet survey and a co-author on the paper.

«Giant planet formation in the inner part of this disk, where CI Tau b is located, will have a profound impact on the region where smaller terrestrial planets are also potentially forming.»

The world's energy giants were on the move, dispatching their sharpest petroleum engineers, sophisticated seismic probes, and huge rigs to some of the most forbidding places on the planet, from the Gulf of Mexico to Greenland.

However, earlier studies which proposed that giant planets could possibly eject one another did not consider the effect such violent encounters would have on minor bodies, such as the known moons of the giant planets, and their orbits.

Caltech astronomer Davy Kirkpatrick, who works on related research, says that brown dwarfs like this one seem to have compositions similar to those of the giant planets detected orbiting faraway stars.

Extremely low temperatures on planets like Neptune — called ice giants — mean that chemicals on these distant worlds exist in a frozen state, researchers say.

SAN FRANCISCO — Dust devils might not cause the giant dust storms that envelop Mars, but there are enough of them to cast a hazy pall over the red planet, according to reports here on 6 December at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has spotted a giant hurricane - like whorl at the planet's south pole, a weather pattern previously seen only on Earth.

The auroras on Jupiter and Saturn are well - studied, but not much is known about the auroras of the giant ice planet Uranus.

Now that the scientists have a better idea of how long the solar nebula persisted, they can also narrow in on how giant planets such as Jupiter and Saturn formed.

The images show storm systems and weather activity unlike anything previously seen on any of our solar system's gas - giant planets.

Dubbed Kepler - 47c, the new - found planet is almost certainly a gas giant, based on its estimated size.

NASA's Juno spacecraft (illustrated) successfully arrived at Jupiter on July 4, beginning a 20 - month visit to the giant planet.

This week, a ground - based radio telescope has revealed that, beneath a veil of haze and clouds on Jupiter, there exists a giant wave of ammonia that circles the planet north of its equator.

At 3:04 p.m. EDT (12:04 p.m. PDT) on September 11, the spacecraft used a gravitational nudge from Saturn's largest moon to set itself on a collision course with the giant planet's atmosphere on September 15.

The first closeup pictures of the planet's atmosphere reveal peculiar threadlike clouds and puffy cumulus ones, plus the giant hurricane first spotted on Saturn in 2008 (SN: 11/8/08, p. 9).

A thermal spike linked to the solar system's largest storm explains weather on gas - giant planets

Researchers expect to find water on many planets outside the solar system, called exoplanets, including Jupiter - size gas giants such as HD 189733 b and HD 209458 b, which orbits a different star.

«When the sun pokes up above the galaxy's plane on the north side,» he says, «the entire planet gets a giant dose of cosmic rays.»

Finally, such observations might help to envisage the distant future of our planet, when, in 3 or 4 billion years, the Sun will become a red giant and will circulate in our atmosphere making life impossible on Earth.

The idea that a very disruptive collision of Earth with another planet - sized body, the biggest event in Earth's geological history, did not completely melt and homogenize Earth challenges some of our notions on planet formation and the energetics of giant impacts.

A laser used to spark nuclear fusion has compressed diamond at unprecedented pressure, giving the first data on how carbon may behave inside giant planets

The gravity of the other giant planets also tugs on Uranus, so this must be taken into account.

If there's gas around and the bodies get large enough, perhaps something on the order of 10 Earth masses or so, then you can start pulling some gas in on top of your rocky core and make something that looks like a gas giant planet, like Jupiter.

Deutsche Bank and the MIT folks hope that seeing these huge numbers scroll by on a giant billboard will make people more aware of what we're doing to the planet, just as billboards with the U.S. national debt try to raise awareness about another scary number.

The red giant will eventually cast off its entire carbon - rich envelope, leaving behind only a small, hot core, while its lost material spreads into space, ready to enrich planets that have yet to be born with the key element on which all terrestrial life is based.

Thus, «giant chunks of space debris clobbering the planet and wiping out life on Earth has undeniably broad appeal,» Meltzer says, whereas «no one in Hollywood makes movies» about more nuanced explanations, such as Clovis points disappearing because early Americans turned to other forms of stone tool technology as the large mammals they were hunting went extinct as a result of the changing climate or hunting pressure.

The latest observations add yet another head - scratcher: giant gas planets that circle their stars on wildly tilted orbits or go around the wrong way altogether.

Polar cyclones on Saturn are a puzzling phenomenon, since the planet, known as a gas giant, lacks an essential ingredient for brewing up such storms: water on its surface.

Several teams are racing to spot Planet Nine, a hypothetical giant planet in the outer reaches of the solar system, based on the way it may have shepherded six objects into clustered oPlanet Nine, a hypothetical giant planet in the outer reaches of the solar system, based on the way it may have shepherded six objects into clustered oplanet in the outer reaches of the solar system, based on the way it may have shepherded six objects into clustered orbits.

Their initial results suggest the giant planet was unaffected, and that unlike similar events on the Sun, the radiation flare was not accompanied by a CME.

In addition to leading a magnetic experiment on Voyager (which netted him the giant planets), he was a principal investigator on Mariner 10, which flew past Venus on its way to Mercury, and a co-investigator on the Mars Global Surveyor.