Sentences with phrase «polar cap taken»
An early summer view of the north polar cap taken on 13th March, 1999 by the Mars Orbiter Camera on board the Mars Global Surveyor.
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If I have to spend another second putting on boots and stocking caps, and fitting tiny thumbs into even smaller mitten holes to only take it all off five minutes later and then five minutes after that put it all back on again I might experience my very own polar vortex.
Bright, frosty polar caps, and clouds above a vivid, rust - colored landscape reveal Mars as a dynamic seasonal planet in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope view taken on May 12, 2016, when Mars was 50 million miles from Earth.
A short skim through the text below this classic climate change image is often all it takes for glaciologist Twila Moon to find the words that set her teeth on edge: polar ice caps.
Four years later, on October 10, 1976, the Viking 2 spacecraft took this picture of the Martian north polar cap.
The latest image from the Mars Express orbiter, just released by the European Space Agency, was taken on the 19th June, 2017 and shows a rare upside - down, wide - angle view of Mars with its icy northern polar cap at the bottom.
The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic Earth in which nearly all landmass has been taken over by melted polar caps.
The Warmind expansion takes players to the Clovis Bray research facility located on Mars» polar ice cap.
Now, I'm not sure what the Times» shift in thinking is with the article — and after more than a decade of consistent gloom - and - doom reporting and editorializing on global warming, I would imagine that the Green - leaning newspaper does not intend to rethink its position on the scare — but it's going to take more than the mere economic exploitation of a shrinking polar ice cap to establish human activity as the cause of the melting.
«Part of the reason Tom's One Man Epic is taking place now is because of the effect that global warming is having on the polar ice caps... Some scientists have even estimated that the polar ice cap will have entirely melted away by 2014.»
AGW climate scientists seem to ignore that while the earth's surface may be warming, our atmosphere above 10,000 ft. above MSL is a refrigerator that can take water vapor scavenged from the vast oceans on earth (which are also a formidable heat sink), lift it to cold zones in the atmosphere by convective physical processes, chill it (removing vast amounts of heat from the atmosphere) or freeze it, (removing even more vast amounts of heat from the atmosphere) drop it on land and oceans as rain, sleet or snow, moisturizing and cooling the soil, cooling the oceans and building polar ice caps and even more importantly, increasing the albedo of the earth, with a critical negative feedback determining how much of the sun's energy is reflected back into space, changing the moment of inertia of the earth by removing water mass from equatorial latitudes and transporting this water vapor mass to the poles, reducing the earth's spin axis moment of inertia and speeding up its spin rate, etc..
Perhaps if we took 50 lats, the warming may virtually all have taken place in these larger polar «caps».
A mosaic of Mariner 9 frames, taken during the spacecraft's first orbit of Mars, showed the south polar cap dimly through a great dust storm.
A geologist can take soil samples, sample cores taken from a tropical ocean or sample cores from beneath the polar ice caps.