Sentences with phrase «with solar»

Cluster is currently investigating the Earth's magnetic environment and its interaction with the solar wind in three dimensions.

It is also one of the many small, medium and large companies that tell a wider story about the economic opportunities associated with solar and other energy research and innovation.

Neutrinos are believed to be created when WIMPs pass through the sun and interact with solar protons and helium nuclei.

Think of it like a very expensive surfboard, loaded with solar - powered instruments.

Discoveries included the first observations of coronal mass ejections, then called «coronal transients,» and of coronal holes, now known to be intimately associated with the solar wind.

The resultant fit is shown by the blue dashed line in Fig. 3, where the jet material appears to be accelerating back to the solar surface at a rate consistent with solar gravity.

The corona merges smoothly with the solar wind that fills the solar system and heliosphere.

This requires a catalyst that is both efficient in its use of solar photons and fast enough to keep up with solar flux in order to avoid wasting those photons.

Note that the IPCC concentrates on Solar Irradiance, but ignores other solar energies such as that associated with Solar Magnetic Flux that has more than doubled since 1900.

Even before Bill Nye came along, the Planetary Society was experimenting with solar sails.

But what Johnson is most excited about was the promise of interstellar travel with these solar sails.

However, in comparison with the solar case, the FIR photosphere of alpha Cen A appears marginally cooler, Tmin = T160mu = 3920 + / -375 K. Beyond the minimum near 160mu, the brightness temperatures increase and this radiation likely originates in warmer regions of the chromosphere of alpha Cen A. To the best of our knowledge this is the first time a temperature minimum has been directly measured on a main - sequence star other than the Sun.

Several of the greatest comets in history have flown close to the sun, puffing themselves up with solar heat, before they became naked - eye wonders in the night sky.

Many ancient monuments were constructed with solar phenomena in mind; for example, stone megaliths accurately mark the summer solstice (some of the most prominent megaliths are located in Nabta Playa, Egypt, and at Stonehenge in England); the pyramid of El Castillo at Chichén Itzá in Mexico is designed to cast shadows in the shape of serpents climbing the pyramid at the vernal and autumn equinoxes.

The stove is fitted with a solar panel that powers a fan and a source of light.

We therefore conclude that results obtained by fitting stellar models or by using population - synthesis models constructed with solar values of \ alpha are likely to have large systematic errors.

«With hindsight, mission experts know that SOHO was turning once every 53 seconds, with the solar panels edge - on to the sun,» NASA later wrote in a press release.

Scientists found a diamond planet, a planet straight out of science fiction and orphan planets with no solar system to call home.

He says: «I live in San Francisco and took this photo yesterday through a telescope (with a solar filter) of the AR1429 sunspot region.

Mass (without fuel): 880 Kg (1,940 pounds) Mass (fueled): 2110 Kg (4,650 pounds) Length: 6.2 m (20.25 ft) with solar arrays deployed Width: 2.43 m (8 ft) Height: 3.15 m (10.33 ft)

Seismic studies of HD 179070 using short cadence Kepler observations show that HD 179070 has a frequencypower spectrum consistent with solar - like oscillations that are acoustic p - modes.

He was advocating geoengineering with Solar Radiation Management, something that would be a pretty tough sell politically.

The piece de resistance of Courtillot et al., is the following graph, which purports to show that for almost all of the past century, temperature correlates tightly with solar activity and magnetic field variability.

HDST would also provide detailed data on the interaction of each of the outer planets with the solar wind and give planetary scientists the ability to search for remote, hidden members of our solar system ranging in size from dwarf planets to ice giants like Neptune.

Our findings of decreased all - cancer risk with improved vitamin D status are consistent with a large and still growing body of epidemiologic and observational data showing that cancer risk, cancer mortality, or both are inversely associated with solar exposure, vitamin D status, or both (1 — 10, 12 — 18, 26).

Meanwhile, the Integrated Science Investigation of the Sun (ISOIS) will observe energetic electrons, protons and heavy ions that are accelerated to high energies in the Sun's inner heliosphere, and correlate them with solar wind and coronal structures.

Mars has an invisible magnetic «tail» that is twisted by interaction with the solar wind, according to new research using data from MAVEN.

As Puerto Rico rebuilds after Hurricane Maria, we share a vision for a cleaner, more resilient electric grid with solar and battery - based energy storage.

The stove fitted with a solar panel, powers a fan and a source of light.

This book addresses and reviews many of the still little understood questions related to the processes underlying planetary magnetic fields and their interaction with the solar wind.

· Large - scale storage and solar: Exploring the synergies — tapped and untapped — of collocating large - scale storage with solar power.

By now, New Horizons was well en - route toward its Jupiter Gravity Assist (JGA) rendezvous with the Solar System's largest planet in February 2007.

This mission would use a 150 kg probe with a solar sail, boosted by a close approach to the Sun to reach a speed roughly three times that of Voyager 1.

The solar event on Sept. 11, 2017 sparked a global aurora at Mars more than 25 times brighter than any previously seen by the MAVEN orbiter, which has been studying the Martian atmosphere's interaction with the solar wind since 2014.

Therefore, the solar forcing combined with the anthropogenic CO2 forcing and other minor forcings (such as decreased volcanic activity) can account for the 0.4 °C warming in the early 20th century, with the solar forcing accounting for about 40 % of the total warming.

«While the earlier estimate of ± 20 % [Schulz, 2002] is consistent with a solar cycle (the 11 - year sunspot cycle varies in period by ± 14 %), a much higher precision would point more to an orbital cycle.

«Karen's research with the Solar Energy Conversion Group is internationally leading and a vital part of the division's strategy for the future,» said Jenks.

One of the most remarkable results is the detection of a sudden burst of highly energetic electrons over a period of around a week in June 2015, coinciding with a solar proton storm.

For example, if global warming were due to increased solar output, we would expect to see all layers of the atmosphere warm, and more warming during the day when the surface is bombarded with solar radiation than at night.

During the orbital period of such a planet of 0.6 (3) a, an observer on the planet would see this intensely bright companion star circle the sky just as humans see with the Solar System's planets.

NREL's CST BOP design capability can integrate the hydrogen production with the solar thermal collection and storage for plant overall heat and mass balance.

The primary cause of mass bleaching is elevated water temperature combined with solar irradiance.

The spacecraft launched in Nov. 2013 to gather data on the planet's atmosphere, ionosphere and interactions with solar wind and the sun.

«With solar panels, we get power for almost six hours in the evening.

The dwarf planet was found to only interfere with the solar wind just 1,844 miles in front of the body.

about Researchers correlate incidences of rheumatoid arthritis and giant cell arteritis with solar cycles

The designation of the star where the signal is said to have come is HD164595, and it is believed to be similar in metallic composition with our solar system's sun.

This study, Hot oxygen escape from Mars: Simple scaling with solar EUV irradiance was recently published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics.

Scientists have found a way to engineer the atomic - scale chemical properties of a water - splitting catalyst for integration with a solar cell, and the result is a big boost to the stability and efficiency of artificial photosynthesis.

These firsts reflect the changing face of UK electricity supplies, with solar capacity having nearly doubled during 2015.