Sentences with phrase «outer atmosphere heated»

This might mean that it has a hot outer atmosphere heated by bubbling convection cells on the young planet — sort of a Jupiter on steroids.

Not exact matches

The sun can unleash solar storms and solar flares — bursts of X-rays and ultraviolet light — that heat Earth's outer atmosphere, causing the air to expand and rise.

The release of CO2 into the atmosphere contributes to the trapping of heat that would otherwise be emitted into outer space.

These are spicules, and despite their abundance, scientists didn't understand how these jets of plasma form nor did they influence the heating of the outer layers of the sun's atmosphere or the solar wind.

Because planet b is tidally locked and the outer atmosphere is so efficient at re-radiating heat, its «nightside» stays dark and cold (top), unlike bands of even temperature on a Jupiter - like planet (shown below — more).

If the energy delivered to Earth by the Sun or by impacts (or both) were 40 % greater, the Earth would experience a runaway greenhouse.3 That is, more water would evaporate from Earth's surface, so too much heat trying to escape into outer space would be blocked by water vapor in the atmosphere.

The moss observations are thus helping to locate the as yet elusive energy source that is responsible for heating the Sun's outer atmosphere.

The main objectives of the mission include obtaining new data on solar activity to help to better forecast space - weather events like solar flares which can directly impact Earth and orbiting satellites, trace the flow of energy from the Sun, better understand how the Sun's outer atmosphere is heated, and explore the physical mechanisms which accelerate the solar wind.

These winds and the heat rising from its interior create bands in Saturn's outer atmosphere.

The premise of Lindzen's hypothesis was that as the climate warms, the area in the atmosphere covered by high cirrus clouds will contract to allow more heat to escape into outer space, similar to the iris in a human eye contracting to allow less light to pass through the pupil in a brightly lit environment.

But that's actually an understatement by Gallup, since more than 97 % of the world's climatologists say that those carbon gases, which are given off by humans» burning of carbon - based fuels, are causing this planet's temperatures to rise over the long term, as those carbon gases accumulate in the atmosphere and also block the heat from being radiated back into outer space.

Greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide accumulate in the atmosphere and trap heat that normally would exit into outer space.

The Sun is not heating the atmosphere and outer crust from zero K each day.

(1) The UF6 gas at the outer rim of a gas centrifuge is at many atmospheres of pressure and room temperature (or optionally a little warmer, as supplied by a heating coil), per these pictures of an operating centrifuge cascade.

For the first time, IRIS is making it possible to study these explosive phenomena in enough detail to determine their role in heating the outer solar atmosphere.

I said it was a consequence of the fact that the two boundaries of the atmosphere — outer space above us and the ocean below — are an infinite and a near - infinite heat - sink respectively, which helping to keep the atmospheric temperature within a narrow interval.

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.

** Heat would still leave the atmosphere for outer space, I would have thought even though there is hypothetically no interchange between atmosphere and earth.

... he realized the extreme complexity of the temperature control at any particular region of the earth's surface, and also that radiative equilibrium was not actually established, but if any substance is added to the atmosphere which delays the transfer of low temperature radiation, without interfering with the arrival or distribution of the heat supply, some rise of temperature appears to be inevitable in those parts which are furthest from outer space.

It means how HIGH up in the atmosphere heat radiation occurs into outer space.

The third reason the interior Antarctic data is important is because there is NOTHING on earth that can drive those surface air temperatures down, except a decrease in the energy content of the atmosphere, OR direct radiational heat transfer from the surface to outer space.

That is a very, very tiny fraction of the entire long wavelength band (10 microns and above, to meters of wavelength) of interest for radiational heat transfer in the atmosphere to outer space.