Sentences with phrase «upper atmosphere down»

Due to launch on Aug. 8, 2013, the VERIS rocket, short for Very high Resolution Imaging Spectrometer, will launch for a 15 - minute trip carrying an instrument that can measure properties of the structures in the sun's upper atmosphere down to 145 miles across, some eight times clearer than any similar telescope currently in space.

Not exact matches

Since the Martian magnetotail is formed by linking surface magnetic fields to solar wind fields, ions in the Martian upper atmosphere have a pathway to space if they flow down the magnetotail.

Auroras occur, both on Earth and Mars, when energetic particles from space rain down on the upper atmosphere.

When a high - energy cosmic ray smashes into the upper atmosphere, it creates an avalanche of secondary particles that branches outwards as it cascades down.

Having such data, she adds, «is crucial to learning how these particles influence our upper atmosphere all the way down to aviation altitudes.»

Since Earth's water cycle is essentially evaporation from the surface, condensation in the upper atmosphere and precipitation (gravity sending that condensation back down), those little droplets are really just going home.

That quick loss of energy counteracts the previous expansion, causing the upper atmosphere to collapse back down — sometimes to an even smaller state than it started in, leaving satellites traveling through lower - density regions than anticipated.

«The magnetic oscillations come down and hit the upper atmosphere in a particular location and then spread out from that location,» says Rae.

In the harsh sunlight of the upper atmosphere, methane can react with other gases to form water vapor, which then breaks down into other chemicals that destroy ozone.

Planetary scientist David Catling and his colleagues at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, propose that the methane rose to the upper atmosphere, where sunlight broke it down into carbon and hydrogen.

This weakened shielding would have allowed more energetic particles into the upper atmosphere, which would have begun to break down the ozone layer that protects Earth from harmful UV radiation, Meert says.

New measurements indicate that charged particles are raining down from the icy rings, painting dark stripes in Saturn's upper atmosphere.

On the way down, they collide with atoms in the upper atmosphere, release energy and emit tiny bursts of light that together create auroras.

Expelled from tall stacks, mercury stays in the upper atmosphere until rain carries it down over the eastern Pacific, where it joins mercury from other sources as bacteria and other microorganisms transform it into methylmercury.

To have any hope of slowing the pace and holding down the upper level temperatures that global warming will bring over this century, the human population of the world will need to make large reductions of the additional billions of tons of greenhouse gases they are projected to be pumping into the atmosphere, each year.

On the way down, Cassini will continue to send data, including measurements of the composition of Saturn's upper atmosphere.

MAVEN is studying the entire region from the top of the upper atmosphere all the way down to the lower atmosphere so that the connections between these regions can be understood.

Such hazes are created when water vapor is lifted by an unknown process with sulfur dioxide from lower levels into the planet» upper atmosphere, where it is broken down by sunlight into molecules that recombine into volatile sulfuric acid.

Most of Saturn's hydrogen is in its molecular form -LRB--RRB-, concentrated to the upper layers of the atmospheres (down to about 2 million bars!).

The planet's crushing gravity pulls all the titanium dioxide so far down it can't be recycled back into the upper atmosphere on the daytime side.

14 C is produced by thermal neutrons from cosmic radiation in the upper atmosphere, and is transported down to earth to be absorbed by living biological material.

In 3 hours, cruising in the relaxed, informal atmosphere of the MV Tom Thumb III, you will enjoy exploring the upper reaches of the Hacking River, one of Sydney's most unspoiled waterways, with its many many bays and inlets down to the open expanses of Port Hacking and Bate Bay.

To have any hope of slowing the pace and holding down the upper level temperatures that global warming will bring over this century, the human population of the world will need to make large reductions of the additional billions of tons of greenhouse gases they are projected to be pumping into the atmosphere, each year.

What if your tube of CO2 were divided by a piece of plastic into two sections — the «upper atmosphere» component and the «lower atmosphere» component, and the lower atmosphere segment were heated or the upper atmosphere segment cooled before shining an IR source vertically down the tube?

«The rate at which ozone is being destroyed in the upper stratosphere is slowing, and the levels of ozone - destroying chlorine in that layer of the atmosphere have peaked and are going down»

Spontaneous buoyancy - driven convection develops only when the rate of cooling with altitude (lapse rate) is greater than a critical threshold, so convection shuts down when the upper atmosphere get too warm through convection.

It's a problem for the climate because the black soot particles are just the right color to absorb heat from the sun, either in the upper atmosphere or when it settles back down to earth on Arctic snow and ice (when soot - free, the polar ice caps reflect a tremendous amount of light and heat back into Space, helping keep the planet cool).

Solar wind it the key here and recent research has really nailed down the yin and yang of the cosmic and solar winds and their different effects on our upper atmosphere.

This contrast in surface warming along the U.S. coast drives the frequent generation of cyclones, or low - pressure systems, that cross the Atlantic and are very efficient in drawing the upper atmosphere's energy down to the height of the turbines.

The upper graph, showing down - looking readings at the top of the atmosphere shows that approximately 1/2 of the 15 um radiation is absorbed.