Sentences with phrase «outer atmosphere cools»

Such a large temperature difference indicates that the planet's atmosphere absorbs and re-radiates starlight so quickly that the gas circling around it in the outer atmosphere cools off quickly — unlike Jupiter, which appears to have a relatively even temperature within planetary bands of atmospheric circulation.

As the bloated star ages, this extended outer atmosphere cools and contracts, then soaks up more energy from the star and again puffs out: with each successive cycle of expansion and contraction the atmosphere puffs out a little farther.

Not exact matches

Most of this outer atmosphere has a temperature of around 9,000 degrees Fahrenheit, which is 1,000 to 2,000 degrees cooler than the sun's surface temperature.

Phosphine forms in the hot interior of the planet and reacts to form other compounds in the cooler outer atmosphere, so its appearance in the spectrum is evidence of turbulent mixing in Jupiter's atmosphere.

Its ultraviolet light detectors will reveal the composition of interstellar gas, the cores of galaxies and quasars, the outer atmospheres of cool stars and planets, planetary nebulas, and supernovas.

By increasing the opacity of the star's atmosphere, light radiating outwards from the hotter, inner regions of the star is absorbed, and only light coming from the outer, cooler layers of the star escapes.

Schrijver, C. J., Cote, J., Zwaan, C. & Saar, S. H. Relations between the photospheric magnetic field and the emission from the outer atmospheres of cool stars.

If CO2 and H2O molecules now are cooled below the previous equilibrium point by having their radiation allowed to escape to outer space, then I believe these molecules must then tend to absorb more energy than yield energy with each interaction with the other components of the atmosphere until that atmosphere as a whole reaches a new thermal equilibrium where the net radiation going out and the net radiation coming in (primarily from the sun and the surrounding atmosphere) is the same.

Air warmed at the surface naturally tends to rise above the majority of the (blocking) atmosphere and it can not descend until it has cooled by the emission of IR into the cool of outer space.

Thus heat from the Sun «creeps» up the temperature gradient in the atmosphere, and then further up the steeper temperature gradient in the outer crust, and even further through the mantle until, whether you choose to believe it or not, it actually supports the core temperature, preventing the core from cooling off, even on planets like Uranus where no energy is created in the core.

The evidence here comes from satellite measurements of infrared radiation escaping from the earth into outer space, from measurements of sunlight reflected from clouds and from measurements of the temperature the earth's surface or of the troposphere, the roughly 10 km thick layer of the atmosphere above the earth's surface that is filled with churning air and clouds, heated from below at the earth's surface, and cooled at the top by radiation into space.

So, the atmosphere acts to cool the surface by absorbing and reradiating energy from the Sun, with the attendant losses, as energy is converted from one form to another, and some escapes as waste to outer space.