Sentences with phrase «rays reaching the atmosphere»

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When these gamma rays reach the Earth's atmosphere they are absorbed, producing a short - lived shower of secondary particles that emit weak flashes of bluish light known as Cherenkov radiation, lasting just a few billionths of a second.

Without the ozone layer, ultraviolet rays from the sun would reach the surface at nearly full force, causing skin cancer and, more seriously, killing off the tiny photosynthetic plankton in the ocean that provide oxygen to the atmosphere and bolster the bottom of the food chain.

The first thing to know about observing the universe with cosmic - ray eyes is that Earth's atmosphere destroys these particles before they reach the ground.

They accordingly reasoned that the highly energetic cosmic rays creating muons would reach Earth's atmosphere ahead of the solar plasma and lower - energy cosmic rays that can be the brunt of a geomagnetic storm.

The proposals include blocking more of the sun's rays from reaching Earth and removing carbon dioxide from our planet's atmosphere.

Cosmic ray neutrons can reach the ground; indeed, researchers routinely use neutron counters on Earth's surface to monitor cosmic ray activity above the atmosphere.

When an ultrahigh - energy cosmic ray impacts the Earth's atmosphere, it can generate an enormous cascade of billions of energetic particles capable of reaching the ground.

The UVB - rays from the sun must pass through the atmosphere and reach where you are on the earth in order for this to take place.

It's looking more and more like most climate change can be pegged to changes in solar output, either directly through additional warming or indirectly as decreases in solar output allow more cosmic rays to reach the atmosphere, causing increased cloud nucleation and therefore increasing the earth's albedo and reflecting more solar radiation.

Typically when sunlight travels through the atmosphere, some rays get absorbed by particles in the air, before reaching Earth's surface.

Our atmosphere that protects earth will be destroyed, there will be a significant increase in UV - B rays and solar radiation reaching earth, the power grid could be greatly disrupted; doesn't this sound too convenient?

12 * ICE AGES: More elliptical orbit causes less sunlight to reach Earth — results in ice ages (100,000 yr cycles) * VOLCANIC ACTIVITY: Release ash and aerosols into the atmosphere Reflects sun rays causing cooler temps * SOLAR ENERGY: Cause short term changes Less solar energy can cause small ice ages

Because the sun's magnetic field controls how many cosmic rays reach Earth's atmosphere; the sun determines the temperature on Earth.

The cooling between 1950 and 1980, he and some other climate scientists say, is a consequence of sulfate aerosols, which blacken the atmosphere and block some sun rays from reaching the Earth's surface.

Fewer cosmic rays reaching the Earth imply a weaker ionization of the upper atmosphere.

The solar wind, by modulating the galactic cosmic rays which reach the earth, determines both the formation of clouds and the carbon dioxide level in the earth's atmosphere — which has nothing to do with emissions from factories or automobiles.