Sentences with phrase «orbital movements»

The slower - acting factors are the earth's orbital movements around the sun and the expansion and retreat of the polar ice caps.

Other large works include «Dynamics of a Binary System: Parts A & B», a diptych of two folding patterns mapping the conflict, resolution, and orbital movements of intimate relationships.

The faster - acting ones are atmospheric dust; changes in ocean circulation; feedbacks due to water vapour, clouds, and snow; and the concentrations of greenhouse gases.Variations in the earth's orbital movements around the sun create very slow climate cycles.

Researchers in Spain have discovered that if lead atoms are intercalated on a graphene sheet, a powerful magnetic field is generated by the interaction of the electrons» spin with their orbital movement.

By precisely measuring the orbital movements of MESSENGER using the subtle Doppler frequency shifts of its radio signal, geodesist David Smith of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and 16 colleagues measured how the pull of gravity varies across Mercury, as the team reports online today in Science.

And, where the orbital movement of forms — which has been a basic element in European design since the Renaissance — was intended to hold the spectator's attention within the frame, the expanding picture space in...