Sentences with phrase «thick atmospheric layers»

Since then, Cassini has employed radar and infrared imagers to peer through the thick atmospheric layers, revealing a complex geologic and chemical world.

For each channel, the brightness temperature can be thought of as the averaged temperature over a thick atmospheric layer....»

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That heated surface air then rose into the atmospheric boundary layer — the lowest level of the troposphere — doubling its height to more than 4 kilometers, and creating a thick blanket of heat.

The lead surrounding the stars — which was part of the original cloud of gas and dust from which these stars formed, not generated by reactions in the evolving stars themselves — may be dispersed within an atmospheric layer as much as 100 kilometers thick (depicted patchily in pink) that altogether weighs up to 100 billion metric tons.

Beneath Jupiter's massive weather layer, there's an abrupt transformation where the atmospheric gases become so thick that the planet rotates like a ridged body — a new mystery that will need more research.

In his early career, Olitski depicted abstract shapes with thick, heavily impastoed surfaces, but later took to layering thin films of spraypaint onto his canvases, creating a trademark atmospheric effect.

These four channels measure the atmospheric temperature in four thick layers spanning the surface through the stratosphere...... The brightness temperature for each channel corresponds to an average temperature of the atmosphere averaged over that channel's weighting function.