Sentences with phrase «reaches the atmosphere through»

(Methane forms as a by - product of anaerobic bacterial decomposition of organic matter in the soil and reaches the atmosphere through the roots and stems of the rice plants.)

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After a warhead finishes plowing through the atmosphere, it keeps falling until it reaches the target.

WHEN Stanley Miller and Harold Urey created amino acids by shooting sparks through a «primordial atmosphere» of methane, ammonia, hydrogen and water, biologists thought a full understanding of the origins of life was within reach.

The solar wind of charged particles and magnetic fields blows through a fog of primordial dust and neutrally charged atoms created in nearby stars or the uppermost reaches of Earth's atmosphere.

It reached 130 kilometres above the surface through aerobraking, which uses friction from the atmosphere to reduce its orbit.

Many could evaporate as they pass through the dry lower atmosphere and never reach the surface.

The group reached the conclusion after having succeeded in the mathematical reproduction of the planet's current atmospheric conditions, through computer modeling that used a numerical model of the atmosphere developed by the Met Office, the UK's national meteorological service.

When a planet passes in front of its star, starlight shines through the planet's atmosphere and continues through space until it reaches us.

When the sun is setting, the light that reaches you has had to go through lots more atmosphere than when the sun is overhead, hence the only color light that is not scattered away is the long wavelength light, the red.

(The station's low orbit takes it through the upper reaches of Earth's atmosphere.

The answer is that before the sunlight reaches Earth, it first has to travel through our atmosphere, which is a layer of gas made up of tiny molecules of mostly nitrogen and oxygen that surrounds our planet.

When the sun sets, it is much lower in the sky, which means that the sunlight has to pass through more air in the atmosphere to reach your eyes.

Most methane hydrates are buried in ocean water so deep that the journey through the water column is too far for the gas to ever reach the atmosphere, according to Ed Dlugokencky, a researcher at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Though Enterprise never reached space, its test flights through the atmosphere in the late 1970s helped pave the way for the rest of the shuttles.

In fact, it is only during these periods of low solar activity that very long radio waves from space can pass through the atmosphere to reach Earth's surface.

Volcanoes can — and do — influence the global climate over time periods of a few years but this is achieved through the injection of sulfate aerosols into the high reaches of the atmosphere during the very large volcanic eruptions that occur sporadically each century.

The Trace Gas Orbiter has reached its final orbit after a year of «aerobraking» that ended in February.This exciting operation saw the craft skimming through the very top of the upper atmosphere, using drag on its solar wings to transform its initial highly elliptical four - day orbit of about 200 x 98 000 km into the final, much lower and near - circular path at about 400 km.

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.

Made up of about 1,500 different wavelengths, it is comprised of infrared, visible and ultraviolet light, which filter through the atmosphere to reach us on earth in what we experience as crisp, beautiful daylight.

Players can blast off and explore the farthest reaches of space and embark on new adventures with friends as they travel across Worlds in a Space Buggy, fly through the atmosphere in the Space Cruiser, excavate the new Moon biome in the Mineral Detector, or land the one man spaceship on the new Classic Space Theme World!

I am getting old and may not have to live through a lot more EN events, but the EN events are the moment in time when more people can be helped to understand that the baseline level of CO2 in atmosphere and oceans have reached a dangerous level.

It hardly takes imagination to posit that while initial aerosol dimming might depress temperatures, the aerosols and atmosphere might react in ways that change heat balance in other directions as they disperse, through stratospheric chemistry, and the fact that, unsurprisingly, there is a difference in aerosol behaviour depending on day vs night (you can't reduce the sunlight that reaches the south pole on June 23rd....).

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.

The second study meanwhile looked at how aerosol emissions impact the Earth's temperature through a phenomenon the researchers call «transient climate sensitivity,» or how much of the Earth's temperature will change when the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reaches twice its level during the pre-industrial times.

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

In particular, they look to determine how quickly carbon can cycle through plants and soil until it reaches the atmosphere again.

In a first - of - its - kind feat of science and engineering, a National Science Foundation (NSF)- funded research team has successfully drilled through 800 meters (2,600 feet) of Antarctic ice to reach a subglacial lake and retrieve water and sediment samples that have been isolated from direct contact with the atmosphere for many thousands of years.

The extra warmth would therefore have to pass from the atmosphere through the 0 — 700m layer to reach the 700 — 2,000 m layer of the ocean.

The last major eruption to break through the glacial ice cap was in 1918; the ash plume reached 14 km into the atmosphere and the eruption lasted for 24 days.

While glaciers and ice sheets may physically plug large stores of buried methane hydrates or pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere through millions of small holes, their impacts reach much further than their physical footprint.

Research published in 2008 by Arizona State University professor Peter Crozier suggests that this nanoscale atmospheric aerosol species is abundant in the atmosphere over East Asian countries and should be explicitly included in models of radiative forcing (the gap between energy radiation reaching the Earth and that leaving through the upper atmosphere).

I spent an hour or so search the archives on the ten Russian Venus Venera Landers for some inkling of the wattage of solar radiation that actually reaches the surface after traversing through some ninety - four masses of the earth's atmosphere.

Microwave radiometry data are used to construct brightness temperatures: an indication of the intensity of electromagnetic energy at a particular wavelength that filters up through the atmosphere and reaches the satellite's sensor.

Warming of the atmosphere drives energy accumulation in the oceans through changing net IR up — until a new equilibrium is reached.

The first is the original «invisible something barrier» at the top of the atmosphere, TOA, like the glass of a greenhouse, preventing the longwave infrared from the Sun from entering, but allowing the mainly visible light to reach the surface and directly heat it and the second is that the Sun produces insignificant amounts of longwave infrared and none of this gets through TOA.

The atmosphere allows most of the visible light from the Sun to pass through and reach the Earth's surface.

Some portion of this energy is reflected back into space by the Earth's atmosphere, another portion is dispersed and scattered by the molecules in the atmosphere and a large portion penetrates through the Earth's atmosphere to reach the surface of the Earth.

Volcanoes can — and do — influence the global climate over time periods of a few years but this is achieved through the injection of sulfate aerosols into the high reaches of the atmosphere during the very large volcanic eruptions that occur sporadically each century.

It reaches net - zero global emissions by 2050 through massive emissions cuts coupled with large - scale reforestation, which absorbs carbon from the atmosphere.

Given that the radiation reaches the satellite sensors having travelled through a warming lower atmosphere and cooling stratosphere, that bias exists between the various sensors, issues with orbital decay, and a host of other obstacles, there's a lot of careful and painstaking analysis required, and much that can go wrong.

He sent infrared radiation through a tube filled with carbon dioxide, containing somewhat less gas in total then would be found in a column of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere.

We define the TOA (top of atmosphere) to be where optical thickness, τ = 0, and it increases through the atmosphere to reach a maximum of τ = τA at the surface.