Sentences with phrase «thin oxygen atmosphere»

Europa has a very thin oxygen atmosphere and an ionosphere.

Not exact matches

Unlike commercial planes, which can use the lower atmosphere's oxygen to give their fuel systems a boost, suborbital rocket planes use liquid oxygen tanks to compensate for the thin air and get the thrust they need.

Visible from North Carolina to upstate New York, the eerie trails were created by five suborbital NASA rockets that soared to altitudes of 50 to 80 miles, where they released chemical tracers that reacted with oxygen in the thin upper atmosphere.

At altitudes above 50 kilometers, ultraviolet light from the sun easily penetrates the Red Planet's thin atmosphere and breaks down water's chemical bonds between hydrogen and oxygen.

Once upon a time, our atmosphere was a little thin on oxygen.

In fact, the completely unplanned «experiment» had left the crew gasping for breath as the oxygen concentration gradually fell from 21 per cent to less than 15 per cent, making the atmosphere as thin as at an altitude of 4000 metres.

In the thin, dry Martian atmosphere, the sun's ultraviolet light causes unique shifts in the proportions in which the three isotopes of oxygen occur in the different atmospheric gases.

«A thin atmosphere made of nitrogen and oxygen has allowed life to thrive on Earth.

The thin layer of Earth's atmosphere hasn't always contained oxygen.

But don't worry that this is actually causing Global Cooling - there really isn't enough fossil fuel on the planet to worry about the atmosphere getting too thin or about running out of oxygen.