Upper Atmosphere in a sentence

These events include collisions from solar wind protons entering the atmosphere or sunlight that drives chemical reactions in the upper atmosphere.

A large amount of a rocket’s fuel and engineering is dedicated to pushing it from the ground, where the atmosphere is heaviest, to the thinner upper atmosphere, where drag and other issues are much less of a worry.

Dark organic compounds, created in the upper atmosphere by the ultraviolet radiation of the Sun, may rain from Titan's atmosphere.

If it is not re-boosted, it will re-enter the Earth's atmosphere within some decades, with the exact date depending on how active the Sun is and its impact on the upper atmosphere.

Light at these wavelengths is absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere, so observations at these wavelengths must be performed from the upper atmosphere or from space.

The ancient Greeks used two words for air: aer meant the dim lower atmosphere, and aether meant the bright upper atmosphere above the clouds.

This process causes carbon dioxide to warm the surface and lower atmosphere, while cooling the upper atmosphere.

Upper atmosphere This view from orbit shows the full Moon partially obscured by Earth's atmosphere.

Some of the early Space Shuttle design efforts used similar designs, with one stage using kerosene into the upper atmosphere, where an LH2 powered upper stage would light and go on from there.

A Juno view of Jupiter with Ganymede casting a dark shadow on its upper atmosphere.

While billionaires like enjoy launching themselves into the upper atmosphere, the vast majority of humans will never go anywhere near space.

In the upper atmosphere, a building ridge of high pressure will eventually span over western Canada and bring steady warmth and mainly sunny conditions over the next five days, if not longer.

Storms are also circulating in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere, with the biggest one called the Great Red Spot, three times our Earth’s diameter.

These views of gravity waves from Hurricane Helene are among the first publicly released images from AWE, confirming that the instrument has the sensitivity to reveal the impacts hurricanes have on Earth's upper atmosphere.

According to the report, a few minor space flares have been emitted by this particular Sunspot group already, which has not caused anything major other than “minor waves of ionization to ripple through Earth’s upper atmosphere”.

A ridge in the upper atmosphere is bringing hot temperatures into the N.W.T. this weekend.

Hope will carry instruments to study the upper atmosphere and monitor seasonal changes in the climate on Mars.

Any prediction of when an object will return from space must factor in multiple variables, including the density of the upper atmosphere and the object’s speed, location, orientation and physical properties, the researchers wrote.

Once in the upper atmosphere, the wax wings quickly melted away from the sun’s heat, and Icarus plunged into the sea below, where he drowned and died.

One such dataset is the unique record of the Earth’s ionosphere – the electrified region of the Earth’s upper atmosphere, which was painstakingly recorded from 1933 onwards at the Radio Research Station near Slough.