Sentences with phrase «south poles»

This, in turn, means that the physical North and South poles are actually shifting, with the North Pole now drifting towards the United Kingdom.

The researchers used ALMA's extreme sensitivity and resolution to track the atmospheric distributions of hydrogen isocyanide (HNC) and cyanoacetylene (HC3N), which initially appeared to be concentrated evenly over Titan's north and south poles.

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

While studying the atmosphere on Saturn's moon Titan, scientists discovered intriguing zones of organic molecules unexpectedly tilted away from its north and south poles.

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.

They occur at Saturn's north and south poles and extend more than 1,000 miles above Saturn's atmosphere.

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.

But they were distributed in seas around all continents, and in all palaeoenvironments from the equator to the (sometimes freezing) ancient north and south poles.

Precession: The Earth slowly wobbles as it spins, much like a toy top, while at the same time, the Earth's rotational axis — the line from the north to south poles — rotates.

The models suggested that the super flares may have compressed the earth's magnetosphere and broken through at the north and south poles, colliding with inert nitrogen gas, carbon dioxide and methane to produce methane.

As the rotor rotates past each coil the induced current in each coil rises and falls in positive and negative directions as the north and south poles of the rotor passes by.

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.

Like a compact series of cogs in an unimaginably large machine, vast cyclones also swirl around the north and south poles, clocking wind speeds of over 220 miles per hour (350 kilometers per hour)-- wind speeds that are the equivalent of a terrestrial Category 5 hurricane.

As the visualization moves around the near side, far side, north and south poles, we highlight interesting features,...

Neptune seems to only have three broad jets: a westward one at the equator, and eastward ones around the north and south poles.

A hard drive uses the north and south poles of a magnet to store digital data.

Electrical currents that flow through the MLTI region are responsible for the auroras that can be seen close to the north and south poles.

Instead, it is ejected as a pair of high - velocity jets from the protostar's north and south poles.

Several times in the past it has even reversed its polarity — the north and south poles have changed places.

NASA's IMAGE satellite, which studies the magnetosphere and auroral lights near the north and south poles, has captured numerous views of energetic «proton auroras» in ultraviolet light.

Those surges generate 200,000 - volt currents in the ionosphere that surrounds Earth; most of that energy funnels toward the north and south poles.

But others are arcing up and away from the star — presumably from its north and south poles.

Changes in local temperatures can explain recent geographical shifts of more than 300 different fish species: They've migrated toward the north or south poles, and even east or west into deeper waters, depending on their original locations.

There are 11 satellites in each of six orbital planes and their paths intersect roughly over the North and South poles.

Some materials possess sepa - rated electric charges that flip their orientation in response to an electric field (the electric equivalent of a magnet swapping its north and south poles).

Positive charges cancel negative charges, south poles offset north poles.

«The challenge — you have to get the nanomagnets to flip their north and south poles to show how they interact.

Los Alamos National Laboratory staff scientist Cristiano Nisoli explained, «The emergence of magnetic monopoles in spin ice systems is a particular case of what physicists call fractionalization, or deconfinement of quasi-particles that together are seen as comprising the fundamental unit of the system, in this case the north and south poles of a nanomagnet.

The islands were lithographically printed onto a substrate, arranged in a square - lattice pattern, with the north and south poles of each nanomagnet meeting and interacting at their four - pronged vertices.

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

There are signs that the next switch may be under way: rapid movements of the field's axis to the east in the last few hundred years may be a precursor to the north and south poles trading places, the researchers speculate.

6 Reversal of Earth's magnetic field Every few hundred thousand years Earth's magnetic field dwindles almost to nothing for perhaps a century, then gradually reappears with the north and south poles flipped.

Ultraviolet and infrared images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft and Hubble Space Telescope show active and quiet auroras at Saturn's north and south poles.

Duwez had already created extremely «soft» magnets, meaning their north and south poles could flip easily.

Correction: This article has been updated to correct the frequency with which the north and south poles of Earth's magnetic field swap places.

If a permanent base is established, Lowman envisions constructing at least four optical astronomical sites - two 180 degrees apart on the moon's equator and one each at the lunar north and south poles.

An odd offset of the ice from the moon's current north and south poles was a tell - tale indicator to Siegler and prompted him to assemble a team of experts to take a closer look at the data from NASA's Lunar Prospector and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter missions.

Unlike graphene, the team's material exhibits traditional magnetism, or ferromagnetism, meaning the electrons align in a parallel arrangement like the north and south poles of a typical bar magnet.

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.

One of the most notable findings of these first - ever pictures of Jupiter's north and south poles is something that the JunoCam imager did not see.

Both the North and South poles are undergoing unprecedented changes as a result of man - made climate change.

Enceladus» topographic and geological features can be explained through geophysical processes, but the moon's north and south poles are quite different.

As far as we can tell, though, nature only supplies magnetic charges, or poles, in pairs — the inseparable north and south poles of the bar magnets beloved of school science demonstrations, for example.

Since north poles are attracted to south poles, the «north» arrow on your compass actually points toward the earth's south magnetic pole, which is the one up north.

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.

All magnets have north and south poles, and opposite poles attract: North poles seek south poles seek north poles seek south poles seek. . .

If imbued with a quantum - mechanical property known as spin, individual atoms act as tiny bar magnets with north and south poles.

«The differences Cassini has observed between the north and south poles remains peculiar,» Tajeddine said.

Precession of equinox: Earth slowly wobbles as it spins, much like a toy top, while at the same time, Earth's rotational axis — the line from the north to south poles — rotates.

In a magnetic material, such as iron, each atom acts like a tiny bar magnet with its own north and south poles.