Sentences with phrase «sunlight near the poles»

In contrast, during the summer at high latitudes, the troposphere warms significantly as a result of the long hours of daylight; however, owing to the oblique angle of the sunlight near the poles, the temperatures there remain relatively cool compared with middle latitudes.

Not exact matches

According to The Washington Post's report, Amazon aims to develop a lunar spacecraft with a lander that would dock near the Shackleton Crater, located at the moon's south pole, a place with water and sunlight.

Now, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, which has orbited Mercury since March, has confirmed that these radar - bright patches neatly coincide with deep crater floors near the poles that never receive any sunlight at all.

But with more sunlight hitting near the equator than at the poles, it wasn't clear how enough energy could arrive at high latitudes.

The floors of some deep craters near the poles are never exposed to direct sunlight, and temperatures there remain far lower than the global average.

However, layers of water ice, up to a few hundred meters thick, are permanently shielded from sunlight in craters (shown above in black) near Mercury's poles.10 How strange.

Another important corollary of this is that the Arctic sea ice minimum and maximum are nearly irrelevant to climate, because they both occur near the equinox when no sunlight is reaching the pole.

Re: sea ice minimum and maximum are nearly irrelevant to climate, because they both occur near the equinox when no sunlight is reaching the pole.

Of course, Sunlight is available for only half the day and less of it falls on each square meter of surface near the poles than near the equator.