Sentences with phrase «slowly than earth»

A computer generated «aridity index» that maps out the dry places (yellow - brown) and the wet places (green) of an Earth - like planet that rotates on its axis much more slowly than Earth.

And since the moon rotates 27 times more slowly than the Earth, the scope can stay fixed on the same star for a dozen days without interruption, he says.

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 analysis is based on the fact that as the world warmed following the coldest part of the last ice age 20,000 years ago, the ice deep inside the Antarctic glaciers warmed more slowly than Earth's surface, just as a frozen turkey put into a hot oven will still be cold inside even after the surface has reached oven temperature.

Not exact matches

Set in and around a suburban backyard, it illustrates why space travelers experience time more slowly than we do back on earth with the help of a bowl of popcorn, a minivan, homegrown special effects and a hand - drawn diagrams.

Captured by Kepler's digital sensors, transformed into bytes of data, and downloaded to computers at NASA's Ames Research Center near San Francisco, the processed starlight slowly revealed a remarkable story: A planet not much bigger than Earth was whipping around its native star at a blistering pace, completing an orbit — its version of a «year» — in just over 20 hours.

The river flows more slowly on Mars than it would on Earth, he says.

We have long known that gravity makes the Earth's centre age more slowly than its surface — but the effect is much more pronounced than once thought

It turns out Earth will warm more slowly over this century than we thought it would, buying us a little more time to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

In the Earth - moon system, tides cause the moon to slowly drift away from Earth - a side effect of the fact that Earth's rotation is much quicker than the moon's orbital motion.

Gliese 876D, for instance, has an orbit tighter than Mercury's and a solid mass several times that of Earth, and it may rotate so slowly that sunrise, imagined here, unleashes a fiery hell.

The recent blockbuster Interstellar is based on premises that Einstein made technically plausible, if not (yet) technologically feasible: that by travelling close to the speed of light, or moving in an intense gravitational field such as that of a black hole, we age more slowly than those we leave behind on Earth (see diagram).

According to Radebaugh, the process probably proceeds much more slowly on Titan than on Earth because, at 10 times Earth's distance from the sun, there is less energy to power erosive processes in the moon's atmosphere.

This is the source of the famous twin paradox: Following a round - trip journey on a spaceship traveling at some exceptionally high velocity, a traveler would return to Earth to find that her twin sibling is now older than she is, because time has passed more slowly on the moving ship than on Earth.

It suggests that Earth will warm more slowly over this century than we thought it would, buying us a little more time to cut our greenhouse gas emissions and prevent dangerous climate change.

«It's now thought that there's more biomass inside Earth than anywhere else, just living very, very slowly in this dark, energy - limited, starved environment,» said co-author Sarah Bagby, a postdoctoral scholar in the Valentine lab.

What might happen, for instance, if an Earth - like planet rotated on its spin axis very slowly (a full rotation in 128 days rather than 24 hours?)

The sun is slowly making its way back over the Northern Hemisphere (thanks to the tilt of Earth, of course), and daytime will finally be longer than nighttime!

Queen of Earth is far more than just an exercise in observing one woman's psyche slowly unravel, although it's certainly that.

Even though Indonesia has more diversity in Flora and Fauna than most countries on earth, I see it slowly getting destroyed by poverty, peoples need for food, plastic and lack of education.

Send Wall - E up there with a shovel, and you can just keep reusing the same dust as it falls back down (slowly)... A potential problem, though, is forward scattering — in particular, if the dust cloud is large enough to extend significantly beyond the disk of the sun as seen from Earth, it might «focus» light on the Earth more than block it (of course it doesn't focus light, it would just seem like it from Earth).

However, it has been known since the earliest general circulation simulations by Manabe that as the Earth warms in response to increasing CO2, the precipitation increases much more slowly than Clausius - Clapeyron would suggest — typically only 2 - 3 % per degree of warming.

Ice core studies in Greenland and Antarctica have shown that Earth's climate can change abruptly, more like flipping a switch than slowly turning a dial.

Several leading authorities on climate change have given a guarded welcome to research suggesting the Earth may warm more slowly than scientists had expected.

Since 2001, the average air temperature at Earth's surface has risen more slowly than it did in previous decades.

However, Earth's history reveals sea level changes of as much as a few meters per century, even though the natural climate forcings changed much more slowly than the present human - made forcing.

It seems likely that the Earth's atmosphere had somewhat more CO2 half a billion years ago than today; as the Sun slowly grew brighter, the carbon cycle deposited more CO2 in the crust, keeping the temperature «just right.»

Those cycles operate on much longer timescales than humans tend to worry about and regardless they would have the earth very slowly cooling with a new glacial cycle in 30 to 50 thousand years.

For any object at a higher temp than the surroundings, anything that impedes the loss of heat to the surroundings (in the earth's case, cold outer space) will cause the object to either rise in temp or cool more slowly.

As climate change has warmed the Earth, oceans have responded more slowly than land environments.

RealClimate is wonderful, and an excellent source of reliable information.As I've said before, methane is an extremely dangerous component to global warming.Comment # 20 is correct.There is a sharp melting point to frozen methane.A huge increase in the release of methane could happen within the next 50 years.At what point in the Earth's temperature rise and the rise of co2 would a huge methane melt occur?No one has answered that definitive issue.If I ask you all at what point would huge amounts of extra methane start melting, i.e at what temperature rise of the ocean near the Artic methane ice deposits would the methane melt, or at what point in the rise of co2 concentrations in the atmosphere would the methane melt, I believe that no one could currently tell me the actual answer as to where the sharp melting point exists.Of course, once that tipping point has been reached, and billions of tons of methane outgass from what had been locked stores of methane, locked away for an eternity, it is exactly the same as the burning of stored fossil fuels which have been stored for an eternity as well.And even though methane does not have as long a life as co2, while it is around in the air it can cause other tipping points, i.e. permafrost melting, to arrive much sooner.I will reiterate what I've said before on this and other sites.Methane is a hugely underreported, underestimated risk.How about RealClimate attempts to model exactly what would happen to other tipping points, such as the melting permafrost, if indeed a huge increase in the melting of the methal hydrate ice WERE to occur within the next 50 years.My amateur guess is that the huge, albeit temporary, increase in methane over even three or four decades might push other relevent tipping points to arrive much, much, sooner than they normally would, thereby vastly incresing negative feedback mechanisms.We KNOW that quick, huge, changes occured in the Earth's climate in the past.See other relevent posts in the past from Realclimate.Climate often does not change slowly, but undergoes huge, quick, changes periodically, due to negative feedbacks accumulating, and tipping the climate to a quick change.Why should the danger from huge potential methane releases be vievwed with any less trepidation?

I would agree with that, and also add that the results might only be saying that the earth / climate system absorbs more energy via impulses than via slowly changing forcings, which is a fairly normal property of a complex system if you think about it.

And then you'll slowly come to realize that the person you've loved and trusted more than anyone on earth, is capable of treating you worse than you'd ever thought imaginable or that he would ever be capable of.