Sentences with phrase «outer atmospheric layers»
One of the interesting results from the model is that there can be very little thermal loss between the inner and the outer atmospheric layers.
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As the outer atmospheric layers above this point continue to get colder as the column optical depth of the slab is increased, the temperature profile within the slab will appear to «pivot» about the TAU = 1 point.
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This image from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) shows emission from hot plasma (T ~ 80,000 - 100,000 K) in the Sun's transition region — the atmospheric layer between the surface and the outer corona.
But these cores formed under the weight of their planets» outer layers, under pressures of around 500 gigapascals — 5 million times atmospheric pressure on Earth — and typical temperatures of about 6,000 kelvin.