Sentences with phrase «polar orbit of earth»

While the Planet Labs staff ate pancakes that morning in February, two shoebox - size nine - pound pods made in the company's unconventional factory floated from the International Space Station toward a polar orbit of Earth.

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These small and relatively inexpensive satellites are in polar orbit and rotate around the earth every 90 minutes at an altitude of approximately 800 km.

Scientists currently can't use much of the information collected by geostationary satellites, which sit above a particular location on Earth, and polar - orbiting satellites, which swing around the planet's poles.

To monitor the Earth's vast, remote expanses of polar ice, scientists rely on observations taken by orbiting satellites.

Michael, think about what would happen as small variations in earth's orbit changed such that the northern polar region received increasingly less sunlight each summer, preventing all of the previous year's snowfall from melting.

The polar ice sheet expands and contacts because of variations in the Earth's orbit (Milankovitch cycles).

The satellites carrying these sensors fly in near - polar orbits (see the Catalog of Earth Satellite Orbits for more informaorbits (see the Catalog of Earth Satellite Orbits for more informaOrbits for more information).

Many of the satellites in NASA's Earth Observing System have a nearly polar orbit.

Consider the collection of attractors and associated basins to be found at any point in the seasonal cycle, as if the earth were stalled in its orbit at that polar inclination.

Those forces and motions are driven by the following: First, the motions of the Earth relative to the Sun: the periodic changes in its elliptical orbit, its rotation about its polar axis, changes in the tilt of that axis, and the precession of that axis.

During the last 60 million years, since the event that killed the dinasoars, the orbit and tilt of the earth has been similar to now and the polar regions always were cold enough that there was ice.

Aqua carries six state - of - the - art instruments in a near - polar low - Earth orbit.

The 800 - year lag between the beginnings of temperature increase and CO2 rise in the polar ice record is because the initial warming that provoked the end of the ice ages was caused by changes in the Earth's alignment and orbit around the sun; not anthropogenic CO2.