Sentences with phrase «south over the planet»

Over the course of its 29 - year - long orbit, the sun's rays move from north to south over the planet and its rings, and back again.

Not exact matches

The Mekong River courses over some 2,700 miles of dramatically changing terrain, traverses six Southeast Asian countries from China's Tibetan Plateau to the South China Sea, supports one of the planet's most productive inland fisheries and continues to reshape a region it has defined for thousands...

The satellite was placed into an orbit that crosses over the North and South Poles, which will allow it to produce images of the entire planet.

Its design is courtesy of the mission's navigators, who came up with a trajectory that approaches Jupiter over its north pole and quickly drops to an altitude below the planet's radiation belts as Juno races toward Jupiter's south pole.

Using a high - resolution spectrograph at the Infrared Telescope Facility in Hawaii and at the Gemini South Telescope in Chile, a team led by Michael Mumma of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center detected methane concentrations in excess of 250 ppbv, varying over the planet and perhaps over time.

In addition, over the planet's south pole, a pentagonal (five - sided) grouping of storms persists.

An event that started as a few days of local jam bands in 1987 Austin, Texas has grown to The South By Southwest Conference and Festivals (affectionately known as SXSW, or just «South By»), one of the largest and rangiest agglomerations of entertainment on the planet: over a week of film screenings, seminars, concerts, comedy, and gaming and tech demos.

New South Wales is blessed with a subtropical climate, glorious national parks, sky - spearing mountains, rugged Outback and over 1,000 km of Pacific coastline — not to mention one of the planet's most spectacular cities, Sydney.

One result is that the water that traditionally evaporated from the Southern Ocean and rained down over New South Wales is now being pulled back into Antarctica — drying out the southeastern quadrant of Australia and contributing to the buildup of glaciers in the Antarctic — the only area on the planet where glaciers are increasing.

20th Century Fox World — featuring attractions based on Planet of the Apes, Alien vs. Predator, and Titanic, among others — is scheduled to open in Malaysia, Dubai, and South Korea over the coming years.