Sentences with phrase «upper atmosphere like»

The volcano's ash cloud hit the upper atmosphere like a stone being throne into a pond, causing waves to ripple out.

In his early stage of research, he was involved in the field of the earth's upper atmosphere like observations of terrestrial airglow and aurora, as well as the ozone layer.

Not exact matches

We've done so because the people at the top prefer a permissive atmosphere that allows us to do as we wish» as long as we don't hurt anyone, a judgment call that ends up ruling out things upper - middle - class people don't like, such as smoking and putting glass bottles in plastics - only recycling bins.

The atmosphere is divided into wide bands like Jupiter's, although Saturn's bands are less obvious from the outside because of a thick layer of haze lying above the upper ammonia cloud deck.

According to a year's worth of data sent back from the European Space Agency's Venus Express orbiter launched in November 2005, the second planet from the sun is nothing like Earth — from its torrid surface to the upper reaches of its acid - laced atmosphere.

The team found that zapping mixtures of air with electricity, which simulates the chemistry of the upper atmosphere, could produce enriched levels of 15N15N like they measured in air samples.

In theory, when cosmic rays hit the upper atmosphere they can produce particles called charm mesons, which can then decay into high - energy neutrinos like Bert and Ernie.

Besides hazardous materials, you'd have to look in exotic places like near a black hole or closer to home at lightning in the upper atmosphere to find natural forces capable of making gamma rays.

«It's like the thermostat for the upper atmosphere got stuck on the «cool» setting.»

It can also heat the upper atmosphere — where low - Earth satellites orbit — causing it to expand like a hot - air balloon.

«We think the encounter blew away part of Mars» upper atmosphere, much like a strong solar storm would.»

Like existing ground - based gamma - ray observatories, the telescopes wouldn't detect gamma rays directly but would instead pick up the flashes of light given off when gamma radiation interacts with atoms in the upper atmosphere.

Cosmic rays smash into the upper atmosphere, producing a secondary cascade of exotic particles like muons, short - lived heavyweight versions of electrons.

The cold upper atmosphere shuts off the anticipated enhanced - Jeans, hydrodynamic - like escape of Pluto's atmosphere to space.

When the spacecraft succumbs to the atmosphere, breaking up and unable transmit any more data, it will burn up like a meteor in Saturn's upper atmosphere, NASA officials said.

C. Carreau, ASPERA - 4 & MAG teams, Venus Express, ESA Annotated image illustrating loss of hydrogen through plasma wake Venus may have lost oceans of water due to a runaway greenhouse effect which evaporated water into the upper atmosphere, where ultraviolet light dissociated water into ionized atomic hydrogen and oxygen (some later incorporated into carbon dioxide) that were blown away by the Solar wind due to the lack of a strong magnetic field like the Earth's (more).

Jakosky said, «A better understanding of the upper atmosphere and the loss of volatile compounds like carbon dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and water to space is required to plug a major hole in our understanding of Mars.

«The spacecraft will burn up and disintegrate like a meteor in the upper atmosphere of Saturn,» Preston Dyches, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), told Space.com via email.

Now running low on fuel, Cassini will be commanded to dive into Saturn's upper atmosphere on 15 September, where it will burn up like a meteor.

Whilst Fallout 3 and Skyrim weren't exactly bug free, as a million humorous YouTube videos of characters heads disconcertingly spinning during conversations or ludicrous ragdoll physics throwing you into the upper atmosphere when shot with a pistol will testify, compared to New Vegas they appear like a perfectly synced atomic clock aboard a gleaming Utopian space station.

What keeps the hurricane going is the cold upper atmosphere and the warm sea surface (and a warm mixed layer of the upper ocean will sustain the hurricane)-- just like a Carnot heat engine.

Kind of like spewing uncombusted hydrocarbons into the upper atmosphere during countless flights a day just doing business.

But I do wonder what they're doing with this system now, and what the folks doing this work would think of having something like a barium sulfate cloud dumped into the upper atmosphere and how they might interact.

Thunderheads are vast upwellings and can carry some heavier molecules (like refrigerator coolants) into the upper atmosphere; they'd never diffuse there on their own, but they go with the flow, another one of those package deals like brain size.

Your description of CO2 cooling the upper atmosphere sounds like Roy Spencer's explanation.

So something like 2000 C is closer to a more realistic upper limit - and someone could do the math but I think most of atmosphere would not escape the gravity well of earth at least in an immediate sense.

Ok, so the silver wire has greater conductivity to transport het to the upper atmosphere, but the less conductive real atmosphere has had several million years to transport surface heat to the top of the atmosphere and it would appear that it has still not achieved anything like equilibrium temperature.

Best I can tell the upper 14 % of the atmosphere has roughly a 30Wm - 2 SW impact, so the models are missing around 60 Wm - 2 total since they like to use gross instead of net.

Most times — depending on things like the shear in the upper atmosphere, which is in turn determined by things that went on thousands of miles away and weeks in the past in ways that depend on e.g. the state of the ENSO and more — the waves peter out, forming nothing but a few thunderstorms and then dissipating.

Increasing the GHG content could, under certain circumstances, increase the radiating efficiency of the atmosphere, particularly at upper levels, lowering the average temperature, like painting a hot stove black.

Although organisations like GENI (http: geni.org) have been promoting world - wide links using HVDC, so far no one is proposing anything like the vast round - the - planet global power transfer system once famously outlined by Nicola Tesla, using the upper atmosphere and the earth itself as the paths.

Some of the changes in climate are due to short - term factors like large volcanic eruptions that launched tiny particles of sulfuric acid into the upper atmosphere (stratosphere) in 1963, 1982, and 1991.

*** This doesn't apply once you reach the upper atmosphere where high energy radiation (which doesn't penetrate the atmosphere very far) heats it up to thousands of degrees, ionizing it, and even causing weird stuff like the northern and southern lights.

And the H2O wavelengths seem to be in between, more like upper atmosphere and perhaps indicative of cloud tops or ice crystals.

I've wondered if the HAARP system had some way to prime a pump just to get CO2 in the upper atmosphere more likely to radiate in the infrared; the notion of tickling it so it will actually depart the planet seems like a lovely one, if there's any substance to it.