Sentences with phrase «than the equator»

The geometry of the station's orbit means that the edges of that zone are more likely to be hit than the equator.

The findings show that the world's poles experienced a larger change in temperature than the equator over the time period.

KELT 9b also boasts an unusual orbit, travelling around the poles of its star, rather than the equator, once every 36 hours.

Not until last July didCassini fly over and scan Titan's arctic region — a place especiallyintriguing to scientists because it is colder than the equator andtherefore is a region where methane is more likely to condense and raindown to the ground.

The equator is a great circle, and so are all lines of longitude, but lines of latitude other than the equator are not.

The Arctic gets cold too, therefore is drier than the equator.

Polar amplification is the phenomenon that any change on the impact of sunlight on the Earth, for example through the release of greenhouse gases, tends to have a larger effect on the poles than the equator.

This can be compared to the trend in latitude, called solar differential rotation, where the poles rotate 30 % slower than equator.

If the Arctic is warming more than the equator, is that speeding up or slowing the planetary engine?

The poles will be colder than the Equator, and 8000 - foot - high East Antarctica will be colder than ~ 0 - foot - high Arctic, but they're all going to get less cold.

Polar amplification is the phenomenon whereby greenhouse warming tends to have a larger effect on the poles than the equator.

Then you have to add in what's known as arctic amplification, where the poles heat up faster than the equator.

You know, it's where the poles warm more than the equator!