Sentences with phrase «upper atmosphere of»

By the way, water is the only molecule in the upper atmosphere of significant quantity to radiate the balance of IR beyond the minor CO2 radiation plus the IR window radiation and as such is the primary earth cooling agent (including cloud reflection) and thus is a negative feedback to any actual changes in solar input energy.

Would a drop in temperature of the upper atmosphere of say 500 °F have no effect on surface temperatures or atmospheric circulation patterns?

You can get O2 and O3 if you radiate CO2 in the upper atmosphere of a reducing atmosphere with hard uv and get the «trickster effect», but you need a star with a lot of uv emission.

The only thing that we know of that can generate that distinctive fingerprint is human - caused increase in heat - trapping greenhouse gasses, and human - caused depletion in the upper atmosphere of stratospheric ozone.

[1] «The solar wind is a stream of charged particles released from the upper atmosphere of the Sun.

The aurora borealis, or northern lights, in the Northern Hemisphere and the aurora australis, or southern lights, in the Southern Hemisphere are visible light emissions caused by the collision of charged particles (ions and electrons) from the solar wind with the upper atmosphere of Earth.

I wish it were all as simple as dispersing reflectants in the upper atmosphere of the polar regions.

Heliophysics studies the magnetosphere, ionosphere, thermosphere, mesosphere, and upper atmosphere of the Earth and other planets.

Retribution PvP map - a 4v4 mutliplayer map for the Destiny 2 Crucible, set on the upper atmosphere of Mars.

The planet has a surprisingly strong electric field — the first time this has been measured at any planet — that is sufficient to deplete its upper atmosphere of oxyge...

The spacecraft will conduct the first mission dedicated to surveying the upper atmosphere 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.

It is the first spacecraft dedicated to exploring the upper atmosphere of Mars.

This image shows atomic hydrogen scattering sunlight in the upper atmosphere of Mars, as seen by the Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph on the MAVEN spacecraft.

In the upper atmosphere of this «hot Jupiter» sits a layer of titanium oxide, which has flipped the usual atmospheric temperature structure on its head.

The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has detected the presence of atomic oxygen in the upper atmosphere of Mars.

After investigating the upper atmosphere of the Red Planet for a full Martian year, MAVEN has determined that escaping water does not always go gently into space.

This causes the upper atmosphere of Earth to cool and collapse.

The spacecraft has 8 instruments designed to characterize the upper atmosphere of the planet and the processes controlling the atmosphere, including how atoms and molecules can escape the gravitational attraction of the planet and escape to space.

Data collected during two of these secondary eclipses revealed that the upper atmosphere of Kepler - 13Ab was far cooler than expected based on computer models of hot Jupiter exoplanets.

To produce the spectral fingerprints seen by the team, the upper atmosphere of WASP - 18b would have to be loaded with carbon monoxide.

INMS was designed to sample the upper atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan.

«By measuring the extended upper atmosphere of the planet, MAVEN directly probes how these atoms escape to space.

The observations support our current understanding that the upper atmosphere of Mars, when compared to Venus and Earth, is only tenuously bound by the Red Planet's weak gravity.»

«After traveling through interplanetary space, these energetic particles of mostly protons deposit their energy in the upper atmosphere of Mars,» said SEP instrument lead Davin Larson of the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley.

After investigating the upper atmosphere of the Red Planet for a full Martian year, NASA's MAVEN mission has determined that the escaping water does not always go gently into space.

«MAVEN is giving us unprecedented detail about hydrogen escape from the upper atmosphere of Mars, and this is crucial for helping us figure out the total amount of water lost over billions of years,» said Ali Rahmati, a MAVEN team member at the University of California at Berkeley who analyzed data from two of the spacecraft's instruments.

Ray Jayawardhana: Indeed, and they're also neutrinos produced in the upper atmosphere of the earth when cosmic rays, these energy particles, collide with atoms in the earth's own atmosphere.

In 2014 Lammer and his team used the European Space Agency (ESA) CoRoT space telescope to study the upper atmosphere of two low - mass planets that are regularly seen to pass in front of (transit) the star they orbit.

While lower - energy ultraviolet radiation breaks up water molecules — a process called photodissociation — ultraviolet rays with more energy (XUV radiation) and X-rays heat the upper atmosphere of a planet, which allows the products of photodissociation, hydrogen and oxygen, to escape.

The telescope identified the spectral signature of the hydrogenic ion, which has been detected in our own solar system in the upper atmospheres of Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus.

Earth and near - Earth observations (e.g. from the Spitzer Space Telescope) have also told us a lot about the composition of the satellites and the upper atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune.

Spectroscopic studies that rely on variations in the depth of the transit with wavelength have been used to identify gases such as hydrogen, sodium, and methane in the upper atmospheres of some close - in giant planets.

Included in the distribution available here is code for simulations of the upper atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn and of the troposphere and lower stratosphere of the Saturn moon Titan.

-- Smith et al., 2007 https://search.proquest.com/openview/cba4766420ef04f09227ccf861784a90/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=40569 The upper atmospheres of the four Solar System giant planets exhibit high temperatures that can not be explained by the absorption of sunlight.

The simulations resolve the flow in the upper atmospheres of the giant planets, with implicit links to the (convective) flow, mean meridional circulations and (likely magnetohydrodynamic) dissipation mechanisms at depth.

• Fujii, Y., A.D. Del Genio, and D.S. Amundsen, 2017: NIR - driven moist upper atmospheres of synchronously rotating temperate terrestrial exoplanets.

Not exact matches

While the Falcon 9's lower stage is expected to land, SpaceX will likely not be attempting to recover the rocket's upper stage on this mission, as that part of the rocket is not expected to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.

In reality, earth science goes far beyond direct climate change research — and includes everything from the health of oceans to the threat of devastating solar storms in the upper atmosphere.

Video analysis of the latest test led some analysts to conclude that the missile caught fire and disintegrated as it plunged back toward Earth's surface, suggesting that North Korea's engineers might not be capable yet of building a reentry vehicle that can carry the warhead safely through the upper atmosphere.

Hmm, so you're telling me that a «heat shield» that was made of «special plastic» (as NASA called it back in the day), which was nothing but epoxy smeared over a ss honey comb «protected» the astros barreling into the upper atmosphere at hypersonic 5 miles / sec, or well over 30 times the velocity of a jumbo - jet and thru temperatures *** as quoted by NASA *** that are «10 times hotter than the surface of the sun», and then they «braked» with only a parachute to a safe splashdown?

As a result of these studies, the Navy recommends an upper limit of about 8000 ppm for cruises of ninety days, and nasa recommends an upper limit of 5000 ppm for missions of one thousand days, both assuming a total pressure of one atmosphere.

Carbon 14 assumptions, e.g. rate of C14 generation in upper atmosphere, have absolutely nothing to do with the lead - lead decay rate.

And if the ozone layer of the upper atmosphere were thinner it would be ineffective in shielding ultraviolet radiation and life would not be possible.

On the average each person contributes two metric tons of carbon dioxide a year of which one ton gets into the upper atmosphere to contribute to the greenhouse effect.

Located on upper terrace of the hotel boasting beautiful Indian Ocean views, The Sugar Club offers deliciously styled signature tea buffet in a luxurious and relaxed atmosphere.

Unlike CFCs, pentane does not affect the upper ozone layer, but does contribute to impurities in the lower level of the atmosphere.

While the temperatures will be cold and the lakes warm, the amount of snow will be limited by the direction of the wind and relatively dry air in the upper atmosphere.

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.

Large space - weather events, such as geomagnetic storms, can alter the incoming radio waves — a distortion that scientists can use to determine the concentration of plasma particles in the upper atmosphere.