Sentences with phrase «opposite sides of earth»

In one video, Argote interviews people born on exact opposite sides of the Earth on the day the Berlin Wall fell, demonstrating how small the popular conception of «history» can be.

Al Roker narrates 3D Sun, which explains exactly how in 2006 NASA launched the STEREO twins, two nearly identical solar - powered spacecraft, to opposite sides of the Earth to create 3D imagery of the Sun.

This observation was made just a few days before the red planet and our pale blue one enter a state of opposition — when the Sun and Mars will be on exact opposite sides of Earth.

Using the technique, which requires observing targets from opposite sides of Earth's orbit around the sun, astronomers have pinpointed the distance to the famed «Seven Sisters» star cluster, the Pleiades.

Coincidentally, as Alfred McEwen, the director of the Planetary Image Research Laboratory, explains to Popular Science, this time, the equinox overlapped with the period when Mars and the sun were on the opposite sides of Earth — a phenomenon that facilitates unobstructed communication between the MRO and ground control.

It's because they happen to be on opposite sides of the earth.

This observation was made just a few days before Mars opposition on May 22, when the sun and Mars will be on exact opposite sides of Earth, and when Mars will be at a distance of 47.4 million miles from Earth.

In a total lunar eclipse, the Earth, Sun and Moon are almost exactly in line and the Moon is on the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun.

No one should have to import the same figure from the opposite side of Earth for the «cheapest» price.

Spring tides have the greater gravitational pull and they occur when the moon is on the same side, and the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun.

Not exact matches

The route from the moon to L2 — Lagrange point 2, a stable point on the side of the Earth opposite the sun — took Chang» e 2 all of 77 days.

Here on Earth, two giant detectors on opposite sides of the United States quivered as gravitational waves...

The VLBA's parallax observations took place in 2014, when Earth was on one side of its orbit, and then six months later in 2015, when our planet was on the opposite side of the sun.

It works by measuring the angle between the sun and a telescope's line of sight on a celestial object, and then comparing this angle to the angle recorded 6 months later, when Earth is at the opposite side of its orbit.

Here on Earth, two giant detectors on opposite sides of the United States quivered as gravitational waves washed over them.

It couldn't be little green men because there was unlikely to be two lots of them on opposite sides of the universe, both deciding to signal to a rather inconspicuous planet Earth.

The distance from the Earth to the opposite side of the Universe is 102 billion light years.

But combined with the redshift due to universal expansion, these galaxies, which are actually on opposite sides of the cluster, perhaps millions of light - years apart, will appear in redshift surveys to be about the same distance from Earth.

Wait six months for the Earth to orbit to the opposite side of the sun.

Given that none of these craft are designed or deployed as continuous monitoring stations, however, and that one of them — STEREO — is currently on the opposite side of the Sun from Earth, the information received is limited.

The September 11 solar storm, known as a coronal mass ejection (CME), that prompted the aurora was so powerful that it was detected on Earth, despite the fact that our planet was on the opposite side of the Sun during the event.

This event was big enough to be detected at Earth too, even though Earth was on the opposite side of the Sun from Mars.

The man had traveled from the other side of the earth, hailing from a culture that could be described as our polar opposite.

Produced with dual stitched bindings on the book's outer edge, Melt to Earth opens into two 64 - page sections on opposite sides of the spine: a black - and - white «Production Book» and a full - color «Installation Book».

Gravitational Effect of the Moon Two big bulges of water form on the Earth: one directly under the moon another on the exact opposite side As the Earth spins, the bulges follow the moon.

Over the past several months, the Arctic Ocean on the opposite side of the world has also seen record - low sea ice — a new nadir in a decades - long decline that, climate scientists say, is one of the many fingerprints of humans» hand in warming Earth's atmosphere and oceans through the burning of fossil fuels.