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The team analysed data gathered over seven years by the international Cassini probe, and found that the interactions between Titan's atmosphere, and the solar magnetic field and radiation, create a wind of hydrocarbons and nitriles being blown away from its polar regions into space.

Not exact matches

Plunging into the abyss of the polar regions, explorers were stripped of their pretensions, reduced to essentials.

On Earth, the brightest auroras (the high - altitude glows often called the northern and southern lights) are generated when electrons in outer space near Earth are accelerated by large electrical potentials, or voltages, along the lines in our planet's magnetic field and slam into gas molecules in the upper atmosphere above polar regions.

Following an expected soft landing in the northern polar region, Phoenix will study the planet's ice cap and use a robotic arm to dig into the Martian subsurface, collecting ice and soil samples.

«But what we've found is that the associated changes in plant community composition in the polar regions could lead to way more carbon being released into the atmosphere as methane.»

Now new research shows that these eruptions on the sun's surface not only send bursts of energetic particles into Earth's atmosphere causing disturbances in the magnetic field, but they may also significantly decrease the number of free electrons over large areas in the polar region of the ionosphere — the ionized part of the upper atmosphere.

With the gravity - mapping mission now over, if all goes according to schedule, the probes» Thelma - and - Louise moment will occur at approximately 5:28 p.m. EST on Monday, 17 December, when the craft slam into a 2 - kilometer - tall mountain in the northern polar regions of the moon, NASA announced in a press conference today.

Unique to the polar region, pancake ice forms over time as ice crystals coagulate into thicker plates, whose edges often get rounded and raised as a result of bumping into other plates.

The polar regions provide a window into space where high - energy solar particles arriving in the Earth's atmosphere can cause spectacular effects, such as the northern lights or aurora borealis.

The craft is designed to dig into the cementlike layer of ice that researchers believe lies buried a few inches below the surface in the planet's polar regions, scanning for signs of past liquid water and organic compounds, the carbon - rich molecules that make life on Earth possible.

That's prevented colder, polar air from dropping into the region and set up an exceptional stretch of weather.

The new images show ozone in spring, suggesting that «global winds are inhibiting the spread of water vapor from the rest of the planet into winter polar regions.»

Enceladus» southern polar region is also home to occasional jets of water vapor and icy particles (with traces of carbon dioxide and monoxide, volatile gases, and hydrocarbons) that spew from vents within the moon's so - called «tiger stripe fractures,» which create a huge plume of vapor and icy particles that extends into space and affects Saturn's magnetosphere.

The term «Torrid Zone» originates from the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384 BCE — 322 BCE), who believed the world to be divided into three parts: The «Frigid Zone», close to the polar regions, the «Torrid Zone» (now generally called the tropics), which he considered too hot for habitation, and the «Temperate Zone» between the two, which he considered the best place to be.

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In the polar regions other factors come into play.

Effectively, CO2 is absorbed into the ocean in polar regions and is outgassed via the tropics and other upwelling zones.

In the absence of accurate data, the IPCC also did not take into account the full potential impact of the destabilization of land - based ice sheets in the polar regions in the projections in its last report.

In closing the article, they pointed to the larger issues: «Man's continued insertion of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere could cause dramatic climatic consequences worldwide and... the polar regions would respond in special ways,» they wrote.

Without a constant flow of heat from the tropics, polar regions would naturally descend into permanent ice house climates.

Raising those temperatures 4 or more C in polar regions tips those glaciers into a decline.

Both are driven by polar storms and winds penetrating deep into low latitudes and funneling winds and currents to the cold water upwelling regions of the eastern Pacific.

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When the AO index is negative there tends to be low pressure in the polar region, weaker zonal winds, and greater movement of frigid polar air into middle latitudes.

Arctic air rushed into both North America and Eurasia, and, of course, it was replaced in the polar region by air from middle latitudes.

Sea level pressure in the polar and sub polar regions are measured in the Southern and Northern Annular Modes — the changes in sea level pressure creates the potential for the anomalous movement of atmospheric mass into lower latitudes.

The high and persistent temperatures this fall are particularly extraordinary, scientists said, because the region has already plunged into «polar night,» the time of year when the sun no longer rises over the North Pole.

For example, reductions in seasonal sea ice cover and higher surface temperatures may open up new habitat in polar regions for some important fish species, such as cod, herring, and pollock.128 However, continued presence of cold bottom - water temperatures on the Alaskan continental shelf could limit northward migration into the northern Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea off northwestern Alaska.129, 130 In addition, warming may cause reductions in the abundance of some species, such as pollock, in their current ranges in the Bering Sea131and reduce the health of juvenile sockeye salmon, potentially resulting in decreased overwinter survival.132 If ocean warming continues, it is unlikely that current fishing pressure on pollock can be sustained.133 Higher temperatures are also likely to increase the frequency of early Chinook salmon migrations, making management of the fishery by multiple user groups more challenging.134

As the Arctic sea ice melts, the water vapor delivered into the the atmosphere increases in the polar region, and so does the snowfall, so that the whole thing starts over again.

Species that already live on the tops of mountains or in the Polar Regions (such as the polar bear) will be unable to migrate upward or poleward into cooler habitats and so risk extinction.

I did also note that weatherwise we were moving into an Easterly QBO, and all the high pressure blocking this often helps set - up in the polar region.

Positive NAM encloses the cold arctic air into the polar region and enhances the westerly winds at mid-latitudes.

There are indications that large regions of the permafrost in parts of Alaska and other northern polar areas are already thawing, with the potential to release massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere beyond those being directly added by human activity.

The satellites pass over the polar region several times each day to gather data; researchers can then form the data into images for analysis and publication.

I presume the answer lies in admitting more of the complexity of real case into the computations: if not the spinning, irregularly surfaced sphere, then at least the huge differential in solar heating «twixt the equatorial and the polar regions, the great daily poleward energy transfers which compensate thanks in large part to massive convective systems.

This in turn may explain the recent arctic outbreaks in mid-latitude regions of the Earth during the winter months, as pressure and wind patters force arctic air out of the polar regions and into the mid-latitudes.

Your explanation is incomplete — you ignore totally the massive amounts of electromagnetic energy entering into and out of the earth - system via Birkeland currents at the polar regions, and which are measured routinely in millions of amperes.