Sentences with phrase «up in the atmosphere»

For much of the history of space exploration on Earth, the powerful rockets used to propel people and cargo to orbit or beyond typically end up in a watery grave at the bottom of the ocean or eventually burning up in the atmosphere.

If the earth were slightly larger, having a stronger gravitational force, it would prevent hydrogen, a light gas, from escaping at a specified rate, building up in our atmosphere and eventually rendering our planet lifeless.

All children are born without beliefs they are educated, I thankfully grew up in an atmosphere of Deist beliefs, probably a god but not some thing that will ever judge people or need a buck to stay in business.

Now I myself grew up in the atmosphere of fairly conventional «Catholic» piety about matters like this.

«I grew up in an atmosphere where home - cooked, fresh foods were valued,» she says.

«It makes the players comfortable in the water, so that they don't get caught up in the atmosphere of the playoffs.»

If your child has a special gift then he will feel driven to use it, so long as he grows up in an atmosphere of love and understanding.

Growing up in an atmosphere of resentment is not good for a child.

He grew up in an atmosphere where political views were stridently expressed by his father and elder sister, and he joined the Labour party aged 21.

We can't say how much Earth will warm over the coming years unless we know how much more greenhouse gas will end up in the atmosphere

Betts has performed new calculations to show how many parts per million of CO2 (and CO2 equivalent for other greenhouse gases) will end up in the atmosphere if tropical forests were totally deforested.

In a paper released for discussion in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Crutzen calculated that 3 to 5 percent of the nitrogen in the fertilizers used to raise crops for biofuels could end up in the atmosphere as nitrous oxide, a potent, long - lived greenhouse gas.

The second beneficial feature for NASA is that Dragon can return to Earth without burning up in the atmosphere.

By accounting for both CO2 and oxygen levels in the atmosphere, scientists have calculated that oceans and plants each absorb roughly one - quarter of humanity's CO2 emissions, leaving half to build up in the atmosphere.

In response, the potential for the development of hurricanes builds up in the atmosphere.

«When skydivers jump from high up in the atmosphere, there are many questions to consider,» Cummins said.

Below that threshold, the spacecrafts» orbits decay relatively quickly, allowing them to harmlessly re-enter and burn up in the atmosphere within weeks or months.

He takes the 525 - gram main mass and the 241 - gram piece and a little 7.7 - gram shard, and twists the three around until, like a jigsaw puzzle, they lock perfectly into place — the way they must have been before the parent body broke up in the atmosphere.

Some recent papers have argued that such meltdowns could happen by the end of this century, if not in the next few decades, as a result of the greenhouse gases piling up in the atmosphere.

If you looked up on March 8, 2011, you might have a seen a bright streak across the sky as wastewater from the space shuttle Discovery was burned up in the atmosphere (which is acting as one huge incinerating toilet in this case).

The new studies showed that, contrary to earlier crude estimates, carbon dioxide could indeed build up in the atmosphere and should bring warming.

As greenhouse gases have piled up in the atmosphere, climate change has shifted from being a theory about a future threat to a hazardous fact of modern life.

But some of that heat gets blocked by those pesky carbon dioxide molecules building up in the atmosphere — inexorably warming our planet.

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.

About half of all meteorites break up in the atmosphere thus increasing the chances of someone, or something, being hit.

After the gas builds up in the atmosphere each night, sunlight quickly transforms it into reactive molecules called free radicals.

Moreover, it is designed to fall all the way to Earth's surface instead of burning up in the atmosphere.

Then I heard a suggestion that it might be cosmic rays, changing the chemistry high up in the atmosphere.

But as long as greenhouse gases continue to build up in the atmosphere unabated, the scales are heavily weighted toward more record heat, ever lower sea ice levels and ever higher seas.

Their decaying corpses could release enough methanethiol and ethane gas to briefly show up in the atmosphere, but again we'd have to be looking at the right time.

The dust and rocks burn up in the atmosphere, creating the gorgeous light show seen on Earth.

«These small drops shoot up with a velocity that puts them high up in the atmosphere.

I sat there thinking: «There must be all this carbon dioxide building up in the atmosphere.

Mercury pollution, from sources such as gold mining and power generation, ends up in the atmosphere and then the oceans, where it is transformed into methylmercury, which is as toxic as the element.

This video, taken by amateur astronomer Masayuki Tachikawa of Kumamoto, Japan, shows the moment when the object burned up in the atmosphere (the small flash to the center - left at about 2 seconds).

Hazes and clouds high up in the atmospheres of exoplanets may make them appear bigger than they really are, according to new research by astronomers at the Space Research Institute (IWF) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

This «radical initiator» pathway is important for understanding which molecules at the sea surface end up in the atmosphere, where they seed clouds.

In all probability, the woman had witnessed a fireball — a piece of planetary debris burning up in the atmosphere.

The huge probe likely broke apart as it re-entered, with the vast majority of the pieces burning up in the atmosphere, but some big componets were expected to survive the fiery fall.

«When we ran these calculations, we found that in some cases, there was a significant amount of ozone that built up in the atmosphere, despite there not being any oxygen flowing into the atmosphere,» said Shawn Domagal - Goldman of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

But the cosmic - ray particle appeared at sea level instead of being absorbed high up in the atmosphere, so it lived 100 times longer than Yukawa had predicted.

But why bring these things down just to burn up in the atmosphere when they are potentially valuable?

Satellite drag — a huge concern of government and aerospace companies — causes decays in the orbits of spacecraft, which subsequently burn up in the atmosphere.

You can't exactly make a whole barrel of it and shove it up in the atmosphere.»

The iron and magnesium are also blended much higher up in the atmosphere than expected, given that iron is much heavier.

But before it burned up in the atmosphere, Hayabusa released its precious cargo: a 40 - centimeter - wide capsule that, scientists hope, contains samples of the asteroid the probe visited in 2005.

Most defunct satellites completely burn up in our atmosphere, but some metal pieces can survive re-entry.

With no water left on the surface, carbon dioxide built up in the atmosphere, leading to a so - called runaway greenhouse effect that created present conditions.

«This means that mercury released through fossil fuel burning from countries over 3000 km away goes up in the atmosphere and ends up in Antarctica.»

As heat - trapping greenhouse gases build up in the atmosphere, heat waves come more often, potentially killing vulnerable populations like the poor and the elderly.