Sentences with phrase «to reach the planet»

The scant radiation that did reach the planet was trapped by the atmosphere, resulting in warm, wet periods.

If the material carried by the solar wind reached a planet's surface, its radiation would do severe damage to any life that might exist.

The rest reaches the planet's surface and is reflected upward again as a type of slow - moving energy called infrared radiation.

The sun's radiance has dropped slightly since the 1970s, and dust thrown up by recent volcanic eruptions, especially that of Mexico's El Chichon in 1982, should be keeping some sunlight from reaching the planet.

Many asteroids on the lower end of this spectrum disintegrate in Earth's atmosphere before reaching the planet's surface, but they strike more frequently than larger asteroids and generate enough heat and explosive energy to deal damage.

The S - B Law applies to a planetary body in space without an atmosphere and relies on the planet reaching a thermal equilibrium whereby the amount of energy reaching the planet from the local star is matched by energy leaving that planet to space.

The powerful Titan IV rocket lifted off near dawn in October 1997, went behind a cloud from our vantage point and then thankfully emerged serenely on its way to Saturn, reaching the planet on July 1 2004.

NASA's Juno spacecraft, which reached the planet Jupiter in July 2016 after a five - year, 1.7 - billion - mile (2.7 - billion - kilometer) journey, is exploring our solar system's biggest planet.

Intergalactic planet hopping puzzler.Speed through space, curving around blazing stars and evade alien lasers in your goal to reach planet Earth.

Tackling climate change by reducing the solar radiation reaching our planet using climate engineering, known also as geoengineering, could result in undesirable effects for the Earth and humankind.

Now he estimates that Pinatubo's injection of some 20 million tonnes of sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere has created a temporary thin shroud that has reduced the amount of solar heating reaching the planet's surface by around 4 watts per square metre of the surface.

Before these space probes reached the planets, often all we had were grainy, black - and - white images of them from telescopes here on Earth.

If Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking - Glass ever reach the planet Jakku, it will be in part thanks to the efforts of men and women like the Americans and Russians (none of them household names) profiled in Jay Gallentine's Infinity Beckoned: Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969 — 1989.

But the distribution of colors reaching planets orbiting other suns could be different.

Thousands of tons of material rain down on us annually, mostly in the form of dust; many of the bigger chunks break up in the atmosphere, but meteorites measuring at least a few feet across reach our planet about once a year.

Vincent Bourrier at the University of Geneva in Switzerland and his team tracked the UV radiation that reaches the planets around TRAPPIST - 1.

If comparatively more bluish or reddish light reaches a planet's surface than on Earth, photosynthetic plant - type life may may not be greenish in color, because such life will have evolved to different pigments in order to optimize their use of available and so color the appearance of the planet's land surfaces accordingly.

Two days before its final plunge into Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft turned its camera toward the ringed world to take a series of images for a colour mosaic, capturing a last evocative close - up until a new mission reaches the planet.

When the crew reach the planet, the aliens welcome them, proud of their creations, and the aliens tell the crew about their bio-based technologies.

Failure to do so results in Andross's forces reaching the planet of Corneria, and if they inflict enough damage on that planet, it's game over for you.

U-1 reaches Planet Gitaroo, where he meets up with Kirah and plays her a soothing melody under a tree.

Though certain parts of the EAS may eventually reach the planet's surface, NASA scientists say they're not too concerned: they predict it probably won't happen until at least a few months out.

This occurred primarily in response to a rearrangement of where sunshine reached the planet and when during the year, with more summer sunshine in the north but very little total change.

And powerful magnetic fluxes also could mean periodic drop - offs in the amount of energy reaching the planet, by as much as 40 percent.

The tight orbit causes the flux of sunlight reaching the planet to be 2.3 times as great as the solar flux on Earth.

If the Earth's climate system is getting out of hand, don't worry, we can regulate it with sulphur particles in the stratosphere, managing the amount of solar radiation reaching the planet.

If cloud cover (especially low clouds) decreases (as it did in the 1980s / 90s), more heat reaches our planet and it eventually begins to warm (as it did).

3) knowing the speed of light is the universal constant, we can judge age of universe from how long it took those beams of light to reach our planet.

I see you reach planets now that were once untouchable.

On Earth, the plant pigment chlorophyll absorbs the most abundant and highest - energy colors that reach the planet's surface — red and blue, respectively — while reflecting green, giving vegetation its color.

The further away an object is from Earth, the longer the light from that object takes to reach this planet.

And despite the thickness of this alien atmosphere, Pierrehumbert and Gaidos calculate that enough sunlight would reach the planet's surface to foster photosynthesis.

That mount faced away from Earth, preventing their signals from reaching the planet.

Previous studies have shown that Earth is normally cooler during solar minima.Yet the model suggested that more solar energy reached the planet's surface during the period, warming it by about 0.05 °C (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature09426).

The atmosphere of Mars, though much thinner that Earth's, will shield NASA Mars rovers Opportunity and Curiosity from comet dust, if any reaches the planet.

Those cosmic rays then spend 10 million years, give or take, speeding through interstellar space until some of them reach our planet.

The impact of solar storms on Jupiter's aurora was tracked by monitoring the X-rays emitted during two 11 hour observations in October 2011 when an interplanetary coronal mass ejection was predicted to reach the planet from the Sun.

The process only ends when the clouds are so thick that they block more heat from reaching the planet than they capture.

It's cosmic rays «When the Sun is active, its magnetic field is better at shielding us against the cosmic rays coming from outer space, before they reach our planet.

The ability to grow crops is going to be essential to settling Mars: every resupply mission is going to take 10 months to reach the planet, and a suitable window for launching those missions only happens once every two years.

As a comparison, a Type I civilization has evolved with the technological ability to harness all the energy that reached their planet from their star; a Type II civilization is much more advanced, with the ability of harnessing all of the energy from their star.

It reached the planet in 1995.

Planet HD 40307 g is 42.36 light years away from Earth - it would take an object traveling at the speed of light 42.36 years to reach the planet.

It won't be able to tell directly how it reaches planets, but the first step in that discovery is pinpointing where the components of water are originally located, and what brings them to a planet.