Sentences with phrase «since ice planets»

And since ice planets are of some considerable interest to astronomers because they shine so bright, this additional analysis (and others like it) could be quite useful in the years ahead.

Not exact matches

Global temperatures are the hottest since the last ice age and the planet is only getting warmer.

Ever since, it has been returning stunning images of the planet's surface along with evidence of water and carbon dioxide ice.

Last year the Herschel Space Observatory detected wisps of water vapor around the dwarf planet, and since its arrival at Ceres, Dawn has imaged oodles of highly reflective bright spots on the Cereian surface that may be sites of exposed water ice.

The sun and moon tug on the planet, while the drift of continents, changes in ocean currents, and the rebounding of the crust since the retreat of ice age glaciers all shift mass around, altering Earth's moment of inertia and therefore its spin.

Mittal said it's not clear whether the dust and debris rings would be visible from earth, since dust does not reflect much sunlight, whereas ice in the rings of the outer planets makes them easily visible.

But its distance from its star suggests that it's an ice giant — and since the planet's orbit resembles that of Uranus, the astronomers are considering it to be a Uranus analog.

Multiple observations indicate that the flowing water responsible for shaping and moving the rounded pebbles encountered in the vicinity of the rover landing area has long since been lost to space, though some of it may still exist deep below the surface of the planet at equatorial locations (water ice is known to exist near the surface at the poles).

Data from the Cassini spacecraft, in orbit since 2004, may help resolve a decades - long debate over the age of Saturn's rings, wide belts of shiny ice chunks orbiting the planet.

This too supports this hypothesis since the greater difficulty in forming cores without the presence of ice would hamper the formation of large planets.

The planet as a whole has warmed about 1.3 °F since 1900, but on the peninsula, it has shot up by a whopping 5 °F in just 50 years, forcing massive ice shelves to disintegrate and sea ice along with penguin population size to diminish.

Trajectory modeling showed that Cassini could have been sent on to survey the «ice giant» planets, not visited by a spacecraft since Voyager 2's quick flybys of Uranus in the winter of 1986 and Neptune in the summer of 1989.

The planet as a whole has heated up by about 1.3 °F since 1900, but on the peninsula, it has shot up by a whopping 5 ° in just 50 years, forcing massive ice shelves to disintegrate and penguin colonies to collapse.

On December 1, 2009, two astronomers submitted a pre-print suggesting that the planet's extreme axial tilt (an obliquity of 97 degrees) may have resulted from the presence of a large moon that has since been ejected from orbit around the ice giant by the pull of another planet during the orbital migration of the giant planets early in the formation of the Solar System.

After the Rebellion?s defeat on the ice planet Hoth, Luke journeys to the planet Dagobah to train with Jedi Master Yoda, who has lived in hiding since

[1] CO2 absorbs IR, is the main GHG, human emissions are increasing its concentration in the atmosphere, raising temperatures globally; the second GHG, water vapor, exists in equilibrium with water / ice, would precipitate out if not for the CO2, so acts as a feedback; since the oceans cover so much of the planet, water is a large positive feedback; melting snow and ice as the atmosphere warms decreases albedo, another positive feedback, biased toward the poles, which gives larger polar warming than the global average; decreasing the temperature gradient from the equator to the poles is reducing the driving forces for the jetstream; the jetstream's meanders are increasing in amplitude and slowing, just like the lower Missippi River where its driving gradient decreases; the larger slower meanders increase the amplitude and duration of blocking highs, increasing drought and extreme temperatures — and 30,000 + Europeans and 5,000 plus Russians die, and the US corn crop, Russian wheat crop, and Aussie wildland fire protection fails — or extreme rainfall floods the US, France, Pakistan, Thailand (driving up prices for disk drives — hows that for unexpected adverse impacts from AGW?)

I am saying that increased CO2 is responsible for the melting the Arctic sea ice which will be catatrophic, since the sea ice acts as the air conditioning unit for the planet.

Ever since the planet descended into a cycle of ice ages and warm intervals 2 million years ago, glaciers have surged and ebbed like a slow, cold tide.

The planet has warmed up since the Little Ice Age and it has warmed up relatively quickly between 1975 and 1998, so much so that we humans are becoming consumed with guilt and anxiety about our place on Earth.

Also note that the planet has warmed since about 1850, the end of the Little Ice Age.

Since the end of the Little Ice Age in the 1880s, the planet has warmed by about 0.8 degrees C.

A few hours ago you were saying: The answer is pretty straightforward: the planet has been warming since the last great Ice Age, and the subsequent LIA.

As a whole, the planet has been shedding sea ice at an average annual rate of 13,500 square miles (35,000 square kilometers) since 1979, the equivalent of losing an area of sea ice larger than the state of Maryland every year.»

If you are concerned about planetary climate, then it behooves you to consider the «history» of the planet before singling out something as paltry as the warming since the end of the Little Ice Age.

Since then the planet has been clawing its way out of the Little Ice Age during a period of gentle global warming.

[22] Since 1860, the planet has been recovering from the Little Ice Age (1300 — 1850) and has gradually warmed.

By «global warming» these papers don't, of course, mean the mild warming of around 0.8 degrees Celsius that the planet has experienced since the middle of the 19th century as the world crawled out of the Little Ice Age.

NASA has updated its data from satellite readings, revealing that the planet's polar ice caps have not retreated significantly since 1979, when measurements began.

and the overall ice mass of the planet — if you take the Arctic, Greenland, and the Antarctic together — has shown no trend whatsoever, up or down in the last 50 years since we have been keeping detailed records.

By comparing the atmospheric CO2 increase (note that since CO2 is well - mixed in the atmosphere, a single ice core record can be used as an accurate representation for CO2 - Shakun et al. used the Antarctic EPICA Dome C ice core for CO2 data) to these many different temperature records, Shakun et al. are able to discern whether the CO2 increase led or lagged temperature changes in various different geographic locations, and for the planet as a whole.

In its first comprehensive report since winning a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, the IPCC is unequivocal about the influence of human activity, the progressive warming of the planet, the melting of the polar ice caps, and the rise in sea level.

The planet as a whole has warmed about 1.3 °F since 1900, but on the peninsula, it has shot up by a whopping 5 °F in just 50 years, forcing massive ice shelves to disintegrate and sea ice along with penguin population size to diminish.

The data tell us that our planet has cooled overall, since the other possible heat sinks, such as latent heat from melting ice or evaporating water during the period are not large enough to make much difference.

Most notably, since the end of 2011, Ice Cream Sandwich started to look as a more mature OS, one whose direction was beginning to make sense, appear clearer, as Android itself was soaring, soon to be the most adopted mobile operating system on the planet.