Sentences with phrase «thinner than the atmosphere»

The atmosphere of Pluto is tenuous, about a million times thinner than the atmosphere of Earth.

Not exact matches

A thin shell of hydrogen continues to burn, heating the star's atmosphere and causing it to expand into a so - called red giant, whose radius can be 1000 times larger than the original star's.

What is more, heating caused by entry into the atmosphere is unlikely to heat anything more than a thin layer around the outside of rocks, forming what is known as a «fusion crust».

The vanishingly thin atmosphere of the sun — the wispy stuff that can be glimpsed faintly during total solar eclipses — simmers at 1 million˚C, 200 times hotter than the «fire» beneath it.

Pluto has a thin, wispy atmosphere and probably lacks a magnetic field, so Krimigis isn't expecting to find much more than a few stray protons and electrons.

To date more than half of all landing attempts on Mars have failed, in part due to the complex procedures required to successfully decelerate through the planet's thin atmosphere.

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.

Seen from above, our atmosphere is nothing more than a thin shell, enveloping life on Earth.

HD 189733b's atmosphere appears to be thinning 25 percent to 65 percent faster than it would be if the planet's atmosphere were smaller.

Losing that speed is much harder than on Earth because the martian atmosphere is so thin.

A study examined three different factors: warmer - than - usual surface atmosphere conditions (related to global warming); sea - ice thinning prior to the melting season (also related to global warming); and an August storm that passed over the Arctic, stirring up the ocean, fracturing the sea ice and sending it southward to warmer climes.

Today, it is a frigid desert world with a carbon dioxide atmosphere 100 times thinner than Earth's.

The present atmosphere of Mars is 100 times thinner than Earth's.

TRAPPIST - 1c is similarly rocky but with a thinner atmosphere, and 1d is the lightest, with less than a third of the mass of Earth.

The authors propose that the water detected in the RSL is sucked from the thin Martian atmosphere, rather than supplied by underground reserves.

Those rocks, decelerating less than the surrounding ice as the comet passes through Mars» thin atmosphere, strike the ground an instant earlier than the ice and create the crater.

In contrast, super-Earths with a similar concentration but larger absolute amount of radioactive heat sources (i.e., uranium and thorium) than Earth would produce more internal heat, more vigorous mantle convection, and faster plate tectonic action involving thinner plates, which may promote planetary habitability with lower mountain ranges but higher volcanic activity and an atmosphere with a greater relative composition of volcanic and lighter gases (Sasselov and Valencia, Scientific American, August 2010; Valencia and O'Connell, 2009; and Valencia et al, 2007).

With the thin air and compressed atmosphere on the plane, it turned out the Viagra started working much quicker than he expected.

There's little doubt that Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian ultimately fares slightly worse than its uneven yet agreeable predecessor, with the almost pervasively juvenile atmosphere and hopelessly thin storyline resulting in a myriad of lulls within the movie's ongoing narrative.

(PS a skin temperature can be lower than the brightness temperature of the OLR because a very thin layer at the top of the atmosphere will absorb a tiny fraction of OLR, thus barely affecting OLR, but must in equilibrium emit that same amount of energy both upwards and downwards; if it were as warm as the brightness temperature of the OLR then it would emit twice what it absorbs and thus cool.

Thin ice and open water generate new ice faster than thick ice, as the heat from the ocean below is able to escape more easily to the atmosphere.

Mars is further from the sun than earth, and only receives about half as much solar energy, and its atmosphere is so thin there's nothing to really heat up.

simply put — planets with thick (denser) atmospheres are warmer than ones with thinner atmospheres — independent of the constituent gases in the atmosphere!

And planet Earth is not hundreds of degrees, despite our molten core being more than 1000 degrees and our thin atmosphere, call the thermosphere being hundreds of degrees.

On this planet, the atmosphere is about 100 times thinner than Earth's — a very different situation from the ancient past, when geological evidence shows that water used to flow on the surface more than 4.5 billion years ago.

Add to that the thinning of 14C in the atmosphere by the release of 14C free fossil fuels and thinning by the increase of total CO2 mass, and it is clear that the 14C as tracer is going down much faster than what an extra 12C / 13C mass does.

And Mars thin atmosphere allows more sunlight to hit the surface, and because of Earth comparatively very thick atmosphere, that's why I said that with only visible light it would as cold or much colder than Mars.

Mars: thin atmosphere (albeit composed of 95 % CO2)-- > no «greenhouse effect» Earth: denser atmosphere — > some real «atmospheric effect» Venus: 95x denser atmosphere than on Earth — > powerful «atmospheric effect» No atmosphere — no «greenhouse effect»

Rather than having a thin atmosphere and solid - and - liquid surface like Earth, Saturn is a gas giant whose deep atmosphere is layered with multiple cloud decks at high altitudes.

CO2 is a radiative gas that absorbs a thin slice of out - going radiation and, since re-emission time is magnitudes more than collision time, thermalises that energy to the remaining 99.96 % of the atmosphere.

Furthermore, for thin air high in the atmosphere to «fall» down to the ground, you would need to create a region with near vacuum conditions (people would suffocate and «explode» because of lowered pressure, rather than freeze to death).

For as new heat is added, far more goes into the oceans than into the thin atmosphere.

The diurnal and seasonal variations add, however, to the circulation but can not lead to more net transfer of heat to upper altitudes than the optically thin atmosphere can lose by net IR (emission - absorption).

Dr. Kristin L. Gates of the Global Aerospace Corporation (GAC) will present the idea of GOLD, a patented system that uses an ultra thin balloon envelope — thinner than a plastic sandwich bag — inflated with gas to the size of a sports field (about 100 years in diameter) that will increase drag enough that the space junk will enter the earth's atmosphere and burn up.

In such units, an atmosphere with the present amount of CO2 is optically thick where the absorption coefficient is one or greater, and optically thin where the absorption coefficient is less than one.