Sentences with phrase «spin axis wobbles»

Not exact matches

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.

Measuring slight wobbles of the planet's spin axis could reveal details of the world's internal structure, but the rover needs to be stationary to get precise measurements.

«There must have been regional climate and chemical conditions that varied in time and space,» he says, adding that this would occur as the tilt of Mars's spin axis changed over tens of thousands of years, a wobble caused by the lack of a massive moon to stabilise the planet.

The idea goes like this: Two massive bodies orbiting near each other will warp space enough to disturb the central axis around which both are moving, causing them to begin wobbling just like spinning tops.

As the compact object spinned, it might have wobbled or precessed about its axis, like a child's top winding down.

The Chandler wobble is the change in the spin of the earth on its axis.

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 relationship between spatial pattern of continental water storage and the interannual (east - west) wobble in Earth's spin axis.

There are two key precession effects: axial precession (see an animation here), in which the torque of the other planets exerted on the Earth's equatorial bulge forces the rotational axis to «wobble» like a spinning top; there is also an elliptical precession, in which the ellipse of the Earth itself rotates about one focus.

The earth spins on its axis on an ever changing wobble (over tens of thousands of years) back and forth, affecting the angle of sunlight striking the poles (by up to about eight degrees, I think) as the result.