Sentences with phrase «south pole of the planet»

[37] One of the first results emerging from Venus Express is the discovery that a huge double atmospheric vortex exists at the south pole of the planet.

Not exact matches

In fact the magnetic dipole is shifted from the center of the planet towards the south rotational pole by as much as one third of the planetary radius.

And they unveil the roots of the planet's storms, what lies beneath the opaque atmosphere and a striking geometric layout of cyclones parked around the gas giant's north and south poles.

Which could account for our planet's weird history of magnetic field reversals, with north and south poles swapping places.

Unlike Earth, which has two magnetic poles (north and south), ice giants can have many local magnetic poles, which leading theories suggest may be due to superionic ice and ionic water in the mantle of these planets.

But when the sun ejects major blasts of particles in flares and solar storms, these belts overflow and send electrons streaming toward Earth along the looping lines of the magnetic field, which intersect the planet near the north and south poles.

The analogy is not perfect, though, because unlike Earth's Arctic regions, Saturn's south pole is slightly warmer than the rest of the planet.

And while we knew that the first - ever infrared views of Jupiter's south pole could reveal the planet's southern aurora, we were amazed to see it for the first time.

An avalanche of data released from NASA's New Horizons probe, which flew past Pluto on 14 July, show the dwarf planet has a pair of potentially volcanic mountains near its south pole.

While other probes have extensively photographed much of the planet, Juno is the first to get an intimate look at the north and south poles.

But it turns out there are a host of «north (and south) poles» on our planet.

So the north magnetic pole is where the earth's magnetic field lines pull toward the planet, acting like the south pole of a bar magnet.

Dust devils occur virtually everywhere on the planet, except for the north and south poles, which lie under layers of wet and dry ice.

For starters, the orbiter beamed back incredibly detailed stereo photos of the surface, measured the ozone distribution in the planet's atmosphere, and confirmed the presence of water ice at the south pole.

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.

Radar soundings point to huge deposits of carbon dioxide near the Red Planet's south pole, which may have once contributed to a different climate

The magnetic field is also off - centre, originating about a third of the way towards the planet's south pole.

His results showed that around 1 billion years ago, Earth could have transitioned from a modern - looking field, having a «strong» magnetic field with two opposite poles in the north and south of the planet, to having a «weak» magnetic field that fluctuated wildly in terms of intensity and direction and originated from several poles.

The spacecraft has revealed astonishing details of the planet's dynamic cloud system, including its striking double - eyed atmospheric vortex that dominates the south pole.

As MGS skimmed the planet from pole to pole, it tracked changes in carbon dioxide ice deposits near the south pole of Mars.

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

Mariner 9 also beamed back pictures of the Martian south pole, whose layers hinted that the Red Planet could have had different environments in the past.

The team was especially interested in regions near the north and south poles, because the polar ice caps are the planet's largest known reservoir of water.

The image, snapped on February 25, captures a number of impressive features present on the surface of the Red Planet, including the Martian south pole, an enormous basin and two vast channels.

Rich in sulfuric acid, bright hazes appear in a matter of days, reaching from the planet's south pole to its low southern latitudes, and disappear just as quickly.

In addition, the presence of water has been confirmed even in the most unlikely of places, like the permanently shadowed crates at the south poles of Mercury and the Earth's Moon, as well as on dwarf planets like Ceres, providing a paradigm shift in our views about the prevalence of this all - important molecule in our planetary backyard.

And some of the terrain in the planet's south pole contains features called «spiders,» which are converging channels caused by the sublimation of ice and eroded deposits.

These will take the spacecraft above the planet's north and south poles, soaring just 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles) above the tops of the planet's stormy clouds.

Data from NASA's Juno spacecraft are revealing new details of Jupiter, from swirling cyclones at the planet's poles (south pole, shown) to its great white ovals, storms and stripes of gas.

A planet's axis is an imaginary line that runs through the center of the planet and connects the north and south poles.