Sentences with phrase «passes out of the atmosphere»

Most of the defense systems are intended to work as a missile passes out of the atmosphere, during the midcourse phase, because once you're above the atmosphere things move on a predictable trajectory.
As they heat up, the oceans, land and atmosphere release heat in the form of IR thermal radiation, which passes out of the atmosphere and into space.

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For guests who want to get out and explore Chicago's festive atmosphere, Kinzie Hotel offers guests maps of the city's top holiday activities and attractions along with skating passes to Millennium Park.
As the eons passed, most of the carbon dioxide was absorbed into carbonate rocks, and Earth's atmosphere, which started out 10 to 20 times as thick as it is today, gradually thinned.
Burning red - hot from its passage through the atmosphere and trailing streaks of vapour, the meteor train moved south - east, passing just a few kilometres north of New York and then out over the Atlantic Ocean.
It had been thought that Makemake would have an atmosphere similar to that of Pluto but leader of the Team of Astronomers, Jose Luis Ortiz of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, CSIC, Spain explained «As Makemake passed in front of the star and blocked it out, the star disappeared and reappeared very abruptly, rather than fading and brightening gradually.
Peter Carson, 400 ppmv equates to about a gauntlet of nearly 2 billion CO2 molecules an IR photon must pass within a wavelength of on its way out of the atmosphere.
An active sun spews out a great deal of material that our atmosphere can pick up passing through which would add density to it for protection.
His exposition does not deal with the real situation of the atmosphere, which is in effect a layer of gas dealing with an infrared energy flux emanating from the Earth's surface and which passes out into the void of space.
Again, you can assume that half of the balls «bounce» off the Atmosphere back to Earth like reflected light from a half - silvered mirror and the other half pass through out towards Space.
The poster child recently for this absurdity has been the GPS system, and recently there was some clock put on a satellite which they claimed proved speed slowed down the clock, which on closer inspection showed the same wishful thinking as we note in reading the variety of models produced of an alien world with a cold Sun and no atmosphere passing itself off a this one — here, a real world analysis by a real world scientist blanked out by consensus:
What I'm trying to get at is that the extremes of temperature get smoothed out by the low pass filter of the atmosphere and that heat transfer between sections of the atmosphere is probably far more important than any minimal effects of greenhouse gasses.
I have tried to say things several ways, but I always profess that there is «upward thermal IR from the surface» (~ 396 W / m ^ 2, most of which gets absorbed by the atmosphere, but some passes directly thru the atmosphere and out into space) and a «downward thermal IR from the atmosphere» (~ 333 W / m ^ 2, nearly all of which gets absorbed by the surface).
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