Sentences with phrase «polar orbits what»

Not exact matches

Scientists don't fully understand what's driving Jupiter's strongest auroras, but data gathered by the orbiting Juno spacecraft hint that the electrons generating Jupiter's polar glows may be accelerated by turbulent waves in the planet's magnetic field — a process somewhat akin to surfers being driven shoreward ahead of breaking ocean waves, the researchers report today in Nature.

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.