Sentences with phrase «slower than the earth»

Its broiling surface boasts the most sluggish rotation in the known universe — some 250 times slower than Earth's.

Mercury rotates much slower than Earth — one Mercurial day is approximately 59 Earth days — so the night side cools to a few hundred degrees below zero while the dayside bakes at a toasty 800 F.

If the plasma crystals do exist in their simulated form, they live and develop at a pace at least a hundred thousand times slower than Earth's biological organisms.

However, it's daily rotation is much slower than Earth's and takes 59 Earth days to complete.

The trick here is that the sun's motion is much slower than the earth's.

What we get instead are winds at the equator that are slower than the earths rotation.

Not exact matches

@Andrew — time is relative — Einstein proved that — we have time keeping instruments in our earth orbit that run slower than time instruments here on the terrestrial realm.

Evolution is not a drastic process wherein huge, noticeable changes occur quickly — it is a slow and gradual process that takes enormous amounts of time (far more than the creationist posited 6,000 year old Earth).

Researchers in the Department of Earth Sciences have shown that high - latitude bivalves live longer and grow slower than those in the tropics.

The OSSOS project uses powerful computers to hunt the images, and Kavelaars was presented with a bright object moving at such a slow rate that it was clearly at least twice as far from Earth Neptune and 120 times further from the Sun than Earth.

They expected the stars» speeds to slow with increasing distance from a galaxy's heart, just as Pluto orbits the sun more slowly than Earth.

The rotations suggested that, at the event horizon, the field is hundreds of times stronger than Earth's magnetic field, and strong enough to produce the jets that slow the hole's chomping.

Plugging this difference into the equations of relativity gives a time dilation factor of around 3 x 10 - 10, meaning every second at the Earth's centre ticks this much slower than it does on the surface.

Variations in the wind speed and the weight of the particles caused some parts of the cloud to travel faster or slower than others, and so the cloud spread as it moved around Earth, until it covered the equator with an almost imperceptible veil of dust and sulfurous particles.

The deceleration in rising temperatures during this 15 - year period is sometimes referred to as a «pause» or «hiatus» in global warming, and has raised questions about why the rate of surface warming on Earth has been markedly slower than in previous decades.

They found that although the slab is sinking at a rate of less than 1 cm per year, this slow sinking generates a downward flow in the mantle that is sufficient to pull down the Earth's surface and create these huge basins.

Even on modern - day Mars, a planet far more inert than Earth, many of the answers we might seek to our solar system's deepest mysteries have been erased by the slow workings of geology.

Slow slip events are similar to earthquakes, as they involve more rapid than normal movement between two pieces of Earth's crust along a fault.

That's up to 9 kilometers per second slower than the average for bigger objects that have hit Earth over its history, says space scientist and asteroid specialist William Bottke of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

In a terse paper posted online on September 29, Andrew Cohen and Sheldon Glashow of Boston University calculated that any neutrinos traveling faster than light would lose energy after emitting, and leaving behind, a trail of slower particles that would be absorbed by the earth's crust.

This is because at a range of more than 4.6 billion km from Earth the signal is so weak that it has to be transmitted at a slow rate of about 1 kilobit per second (you may be reading this via wi - fi operating at tens or hundreds of megabits per second).

Earth's wet regions are getting wetter and dry regions are getting drier, but it is happening at a slower rate than previously thought, research shows.

Research from the University of Southampton has provided robust evidence that wet regions of Earth are getting wetter and dry regions are getting drier but it is happening at a slower rate than previously thought.

But tests in a lab are many layers removed from the conditions inside Earth, where pressures are higher and deformation rates are much slower than in the lab.

Sirangelo says that the lifting - body design is ideal, because it can land with a lower g - force than a capsule; instead of plummeting back to Earth slowed by parachutes or thrusters, it glides.

However, during the unusual episode, which was caused by the passage of a solar eruption over Earth, the data recorded by the researchers showed the solar wind became subsonic, or slower than the speed of sound.

«Also, these earlier dates would mean that changes to the Earth happened at a slower pace than we might otherwise think.»

But the difference between individual years has been slight, meaning the earth's surface has risen a fair bit slower than in previous decades.

Because a «small» protoplanet (up to a few Earth masses) lacks sufficient gravitational pull to open a gap in the protostar's disk, it will move inward as the disk lying inside the protoplanet's orbit transfers angular momentum to it at a slower rate than it is transferring angular momentum to the outer disk (through interactions with Lindblad resonances induced in the disk).

The students, even those who correctly marked «true,» were slower to answer those questions than questions about whether humans are descended from tree - dwelling creatures (also true but easier to grasp) and whether the moon goes around the Earth (also true but intuitive).

The minimum speed near apoapse, about 1.8 degrees per Earth year, is slower than Neptune.)

With the eccentricity of the orbit, the maximum speed near periapse, about 18 degrees per Earth year, is faster than Saturn, but slower than Jupiter.

However, its rotation is very slow with 243 Earth days in a single «Venus day,» which is slightly longer than the planet's year, and retrograde when compared with Earth's so that the Sun rises in the west and sets in the east.

It was discovered that Venus» slow rotational period of 117 Earth days, in conjunction with the ancient analogue of our Sun used in the study, combined to create a hospitable surface temperature only a few degrees cooler than the temperature on present - day Earth.

A more natural bet therefore might be to ask whether the real Earth warms faster or slower than the Keenlyside Earth.

So for her to be Peach's Daughter is out, but for her to be an ANCESTOR is in, IF Rosalina is, say traveling at light or warp speeds, she would, relative to the Mushroom Kingdom's Earth - Like Planet, age a lot slower than her descendants.

Given that the cryosphere and oceans are far better long - term indicators of changes in Earth's energy balance than the much more «noisy» troposphere, for anyone to suggest that the warming of the Earth system has slowed or stopped over the past 10 years, means they are purposely ignoring the far bigger heat sinks of the cryrosphere and oceans, or they simply want to spout nonsense.

A more natural bet therefore might be to ask whether the real Earth warms faster or slower than the Keenlyside Earth.

If the surface temperature is slow to catch up to that imbalance then the energy imbalance remains large, and we can have sufficient net heating to cause much faster changes in the ice sheets than from the comparatively smaller imbalances caused by the changes in Earth's orbit associated with the glacial periods in the past.

But let me tell you, it's a far smaller feat for you to slightly alter the shape of the local universe than it is for me to slow down the rotation of the Earth!

Via Earth Times More on Forests: Canuck Forests Reduce Emissions by 62 Per Cent Submerged Forests to be Harvested in Ghana, Touted As Way to Slow Tropical Deforestation Tropical Forests Better Left Intact As Carbon Sinks Than Converted to Biofuel Plantations

50 times slower than what we are doing to earth now.

Energy is what matters and if the Earth is losing it faster now than ever before (based on an entire 34 years of satellite data), then it doesn't look like CO2 is doing a very good job at slowing the rate of energy loss.

The Gulf Stream system, one of Earth's most important heat transport systems, is slower than ever before, and researchers warn that it may result in drastic climate impacts, according to a new study.

However the Earth's core is known to rotate faster than the crust, presumably as a result of the Moon's tidal drag on the Earth slowing it down.

One can further calculate that the net gain in energy of the Moon (namely half the increase in its potential energy as noted above) is less than the rotational energy lost by the Earth as it slows.

If the radiation from one molecule of carbon dioxide in every 2,500 air molecules could actually slow the rate of cooling of Earth's surface, then the radiation from water vapour should slow the cooling at least a hundred fold, making rain forests about 50 degrees hotter than dry regions at similar latitudes and altitudes.

On a positive note, the rate Earth Overshoot Day has moved up on the calendar has slowed to less than one day a year on average in the past five years, compared to an average of three days a year since overshoot began in the early 1970s.

Some theoreticians proposed that these infrared - active gases should slow down the rate at which the Earth's atmosphere loses energy to space (known as the rate of «infrared cooling»), and so keep the lower atmosphere warmer than it would be otherwise, e.g., Stone & Manabe, 1968 (Open access).

It is better than being in vacuum such as on the moon, yes, but given the atmosphere's presence on the Earth, it is not slowing down cooling at the surface within its own parameters.