Sentences with phrase «over the poles at»

«Now, with Juno flying over the poles at a close distance it permits the collection of infrared imagery on Jupiter's polar weather patterns and its massive cyclones in unprecedented spatial resolution.»

If we had a continent over both poles at the same time we'd probably get a snowball earth episode that would last until either CO2 built up in the atmosphere to melt it or the continents drifted off the poles or some combination of both.

Not exact matches

As for job function, frontend developers are at the bottom of the totem pole, bringing in just over $ 60,000, on average.

To minimize their exposure, airline personnel should try to limit working on flights that are very long, at high altitudes, or that fly over the poles, which are all associated with heightened exposures, according to the CDC.

Frozen deserts at the poles, and hot deserts over much of the middle.

Suppose, in a kind of contented abstinence, we were to refrain from trying to understand more of the landscape before us than the landscape cared to display for us, that we were willing to follow the bend of bough and straggle of gravel and tilt of pole wherever the bend and the straggle and the tilt chanced to take us, that we concerned ourselves not with pattern or profit or even pleasure but merely with watching like a token sentinel in safe country, that we gave our eyes a quiet carte blanche and permitted our minds to play at liberty over the face of an untouched terrain?

Gazing out over the dark sea they study for themselves the lapping of waters along the hull of the craft that bears them, breathe the scents borne to them on the breeze, gaze at the shadows cast from pole to pole by a changeless eternity.

The Khan is much smaller and at this time of year it runs clear and green, skipping merrily over gravelly sand banks and slipping smoothly between the poles of the bamboo bridge that fords it.

Liverpool are in pole position to sign Germany midfielder Marco Reus, 25, after talks over a new contract at Borussia Dortmund collapsed --(Metro)

When Hamilton suddenly stuck in a pole lap over six - tenths quicker than anyone else it seemed reasonable to think that «party mode» was at least partly responsible.

It was no surprise to hear Arsene Wenger talking this week about the pressure of being at the top of the Premier League, as his Arsenal side have suffered with it plenty of times, including over the last few weeks when the Gunners hit a slump after finding ourselves two points clear and in pole position to win the Premier League.

diaby and particulary if carzola decides not to renew his contract Beliek and the U18 lost last night and there over all strength seats at the 11 position to have a constant local tap in the U18 must be in pole position U21 must be in pole position to be sustainable club to move players up and across I like psj verratti..

Plenty of United, Chelsea and City fans getting fidgety and angry as well — just the scousers mulling over their early business and trying to convince themselves they are in pole position again for a shot at the PL.

At the party's annual conference in Victoria Falls at the weekend, the women's wing pressed for a quota system ensuring that one of Mugabe's two deputies be a woman — a post which could go to Grace and put her in pole position to take oveAt the party's annual conference in Victoria Falls at the weekend, the women's wing pressed for a quota system ensuring that one of Mugabe's two deputies be a woman — a post which could go to Grace and put her in pole position to take oveat the weekend, the women's wing pressed for a quota system ensuring that one of Mugabe's two deputies be a woman — a post which could go to Grace and put her in pole position to take over.

At the time, Tech Valley Communications had a dispute with Central Hudson over using the utility's poles in Coeymans, New Baltimore and Ravena for its fiber optic wires.

The Terra Hiker Camping Tarp is at home as a tent footprint on a sandy beach or a pole tent over your hammock at a camp site.

Now a team led by William Farrell of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has modelled how dust could be thrown up at the moon's poles, where the solar wind blows horizontally over crater rims.

Examining the radiation balance as a function of latitude, we see that tropical regions have a radiation surplus; the deficit over the higher latitudes peaks at the poles.

Even passengers and pilots on aircraft flying over the poles are at risk.

This precise opposition indicates the moon's axis — the imaginary pole that runs north to south through it's middle, and around which the moon rotates — shifted at least six degrees, likely over the course of 1 billion years, said Siegler.

Previous surveys by Cassini have found that winds whip through the atmosphere over Saturn's north pole at more than 500 kilometers per hour — 30 percent faster than any gust ever recorded in a cyclone on Earth.

In a paper published today in the journal Nature Geoscience, atmospheric scientists at MIT propose a possible mechanism for Saturn's polar cyclones: Over time, small, short - lived thunderstorms across the planet may build up angular momentum, or spin, within the atmosphere — ultimately stirring up a massive and long - lasting vortex at the poles.

Over time they build a more detailed magnetic map by learning to recognise variations in the strength and direction of the field lines, which are angled more steeply towards the poles and flatter at the magnetic equator.

Over several years, these drift towards the sun's poles after starting at lower latitudes.

«Whatever we find at the poles probably built up atom by atom, molecule by molecule, from impacts all over the globe,» he says.

The lower edge of the stratosphere, bounded by the tropopause, varies in altitude from about 18 kilometres at the equator to between 6 and 8 kilometres over the poles.

The spacecraft plummeted in from interplanetary space over Jupiter's north pole at about 7:30 P.M., falling ever faster as it plunged deeper into the planet's gravitational field.

The military used paints containing up to 5 % PCBs at other Arctic sites built around the same time — including the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line radar sites that scanned for Soviet missiles coming over the pole.

Grundy and his team estimate that about 30 centimeters (12 inches) of tholins would be produced at the poles over Charon's billion - year lifetime.

In December, Cassini pointed its radar straight down over Titan's largest lake, Ontario Lacus, which spans 235 kilometres at the moon's south pole.

«As we approach Saturn's summer solstice in 2017, lighting conditions over its north pole will improve, and we are excited to track the changes that occur both inside and outside the hexagon boundary,» Scott Edgington, Cassini deputy project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., said in a statement in 2013.

«As we approach Saturn's summer solstice in 2017, lighting conditions over its north pole will improve, and we are excited to track the changes that occur both inside and outside the hexagon boundary,» said Scott Edgington, Cassini deputy project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif..

Then the view shifts to the north, passing over Dorothy Gale crater and Mordor Macula, the icy region at Charon's north pole, before turning south to Oz Terra, Vulcan Planum and Clarke Montes.

Exhilarating day today... I pushed through my fear of heights (almost giving up at the first step) and dangled precariously from a selection of poles and ropes 400 feet up (well, over 40 anyway... much like myself!).

There's also a pole over at Buzz Sugar where the results currently stand at 23 % «Love It» to a whopping 77 % for «Leave It.»

In a racing world that's become increasingly specialized over the years, Kettler is one of the few stalwarts to have labored at virtually every position from the bottom to the top of the motorsports totem pole.

While long runs took priority over fast laps, both Corvettes ran considerably quicker than the 2:01.561 lap time that won the GT pole at Sebring last year.

I still think (the pole time) was in the car but I just bounced in the middle of Turn 3 over a small bump and that put me a little bit off line at the exit.

As America's first - ever Civic Type R, this version of Honda's five - door hatchback sits at the of the company's performance totem pole and is motivated by a warmed - over version of the automaker's turbocharged 2.0 - liter four cylinder motor that's been tuned to deliver 306 horsepower and 295 pound - feet of torque, the latter of which comes in at 2,500 rpm and stays flat until roughly 4,500 revs.

Usually at least one of the poles will be wound with sisal rope for your feline to harmlessly drag his or her claws over.

The lesson consists of steering and controlling exercises, for example, maneuvering in and out of cones, going over ground poles, and stopping at a particular place.

The pole was more of a patriotic and advertising event than anything else but it still made the final 7 at the same time and there is no doubt that it is a wonder of engineering considering it was built over 1,000 years ago.

For his first solo exhibition at Simon Lee Gallery Hong Kong, the artist will present a selection of new works from Looking Up in Osaka, a series comprising of over 300 photographs of utility poles and cables taken...

Perhaps all of this newly freed up ice - cold water at the poles is temporarily acting as a negative feedback, but as it absorbs more of the solar radiation, over time, it will transform into what we rightly think: a predominately positive feedback system, rapidly intensifying the warming.

re Gavin @ 223 I know what the mean global temperature is (actually, I don't, see below) but the question was why is this a meaningful metric for looking at changes over time, when you could get the same global mean from very different distributions of temperature (eg increase the poles, decrease the tropics) which would have very different interpretations of energy balance (at least if I am right that humidity matters)?

A new analysis of the dramatic cycles of ice ages and warm intervals over the past million years, published in Nature, concludes that the climatic swings are the gyrations of a system poised to settle into a quasi-permanent colder state — with expanded ice sheets at both poles.

Look at the above link and notice that the vortex has its center over the south pole and is blowing outward, not inward.

Jimbo says: July 10, 2010 at 10:37 am «-LSB-...] poles over the next 8 months.

As I pointed out yesterday the following seems to show a worrying forecast at BOTH poles over the next 8 months.

The measurements at MLO, Barrow, Samoa, south pole represent 95 % of the atmosphere, where only seasonal variations and a continuous increase are seen, not (or limited) the influence of local / regional biological decay or uptake, car exhausts or chimneys as in 5 % of the atmosphere over land where such variations are measured for other reasons than a global CO2 level...