Equator Therapeutics: Equator Therapeutics is developing a drug to help users burn calories without exercise.
|
|
Are they all north of the equator, south of the equator, Pacific locations or Atlantic locations?
|
|
On its equator, the rotational forces make the gas basically weightless, so it slowly floats off the equator.
|
|
He also set speed records for sailing the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and for going from equator to equator.
|
|
So if a small satellite operator wants to go into a lower orbit over the equator, they basically have to launch at the equator.
|
|
Because Jupiter's magnetic equator (as opposed to its geographic equator) is tilted by 10 degrees, sometimes Europa is above it, and sometimes below it.
|
|
Such a tilt on Earth would mean that the Arctic Circle didn't begin 66 degrees north of the Equator, but at the Equator itself.
|
|
Its proximity to the equator also benefits space launches by adding orbital velocity to the rocket, as the Earth rotates the fastest at the equator.
|
|
By some counts, the total number of countries touching the Equator is 11, because the landmasses of Maldives and Kiribati do not touch the Equator itself.
|
|
Gehrman says he's heard of people who moved from places close to the equator to places farther from the equator and subsequently developed seasonal affective disorder.
|
|
Sputnik Planitia is near the equator on Pluto — but unlike Mars or Earth, Pluto's equator is home to some of the coldest regions on the dwarf planet.
|
|
Speaking of investors, Golden Equator Capital is part of Golden Equator, a Singapore-based group of businesses that includes financial services, consulting, an incubator and, of course, investment funds.
|
|
Places farther from the Equator (with mild summers and lower cooling demands) might save energy, but places closer to the Equator used more energy during daylight time, the researchers found.
|
|
The launch complex on Brazil's northern coast offers an opportunity to launch near the equator, much like the Guiana Space Centre, which is north of the equator in French Guiana.
|
|
It&aposs location near the equator is advantageous for space launches because the closer a launch is to the equator, the more velocity the rocket gets from the Earth&aposs rotation.
|
|
But closer to the equator, things get all mixed up.
|
|
And the ammonia isn't just found at the equator either.
|
|
The image depicts a swath of Mars near its equator.
|
|
We think our technology is relevant South of the equator.
|
|
"The InSight lander is close to the Martian equator -- just north of the equator -- so it is experiencing Martian winter," said Don Banfield in a statement, the mission's lead for the lander's meteorological sensors.
|
|
Beastwars' live prowess is downright legendary south of the equator, too.
|
|
Long, linear dunes encircle the equator of Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
|
|
They serve Equator coffee, by far the best cup in town.
|
|
"There's no reason to shoot for the equator over anywhere else."
|
|
Most importantly, hurricanes form over warm ocean waters near the equator.
|
|
That's because missions from the equator region often require less fuel.
|
|
Venezuela is near the equator so daylight varies little by season.
|
|
The wearable comes in two wristband styles called Moonbeam and Equator.
|
|
The light was fading quickly, as it does near the Equator.
|
|
For those south of the equator, it's the beginning of autumn.
|
|
It's so far south it's closer to Antarctica than the Equator.
|
|
Boreal forests are distinct from tropical forests, closer to the Equator.
|
|
Boreal forests are distinct from tropical forests, closer to the Equator.
|
|
Countries along the equator will be hardest-hit in all scenarios.
|
|
Sputnik Planitia shows an especially strong signature of nitrogen near the equator.
|
|
The biggest asset of Brazil's spaceport is its proximity to the equator.
|
|
The two equinoxes occur when the sun is directly above the equator.
|
|
At other times, Pluto's arctic zones can extend nearly to its equator.
|
|
During an equinox at Earth's equator, the sun appears almost directly overhead.
|
|
This is why the poles are much redder than, say, the equator.
|
|
It's so coherent; it's like there's an equator running through the city.
|
|
Instead, the Equator passes through water controlled by these two island countries.
|
|
The effect is the opposite below the Equator, in the Southern Hemisphere.
|
|
A pissheaded cultural equator armed with an endless supply of red wine.
|
|
Humpback whales south of the Equator are no longer considered endangered, though.
|
|
And a belt of ammonia may be rising around the planet's equator.
|
|
Where do you weigh more, at the equator or at the North Pole?
|
|
One reason is that all the Apollo missions landed near the moon's equator.
|
|
There were also quite a few more storms than average along the equator.
|
|
By the laws of physics, Cyclones cannot come this close to the equator.
|
|
The ocean turned jacuzzi-hot near the equator and experienced mass extinctions worldwide.
|
|
About 380 million years ago the area was located south of the equator.
|
|
The map shows water stress (marked in red) is often near the equator.
|
|
The surface clouds at Saturn's equator rotate 4% faster than this deep layer.
|
|
Another eye-catching feature is a 13,000-foot-high mountain near Ceres's Equator.
|
|
Boreal forests are distinct from tropical forests, which are closer to the Equator.
|
|
In the Southern Hemisphere, our seasons are opposite those north of the equator.
|
|
Launching from the equator itself, therefore, is advantageous because it requires less fuel.
|
|
Sample questions include: What is the Sun's greatest distance from the celestial equator?
|
|
At that moment, the sun's position in the sky is exactly where the ecliptic (the path the planets take as they move through the constellations) crosses the celestial equator (the projection of the Earth's own equator onto the celestial sphere).
|
|
Another factor is its location, at the confluence of the Andes and the equator.
|
|
This occurrence results in a summer solstice for those living north of the equator.
|
|
Farther from the equator, both north and south, distortions increase until they become extreme.
|
|
One is the now-famous heart-shaped feature that dominates the dwarf planet's equator.
|
|
The rover is near the equator on Mars, where summer is about to begin.
|
|
There is an epic 10,948 foot (3,337 meter) ice mountain located near Titan's equator.
|
|
You've never been south of Earth's Equator, or if so, you've never looked up.
|
|
The ships Fugro Equator and Havila Harmony continue to conduct various underwater search operations.
|
|
For one thing, ocean currents would have prevented the cells from crossing the Equator.
|
|
This is just a few degrees north of the Equator, squarely in the doldrums.
|
|
The coffee plant grows close to the equator in many countries around the world.
|
|
Thousands of species are rapidly migrating away from the Equator, trying to stay cool.
|
|
He is also known for circling the globe around the equator without motorized transport.
|
|
El Niño is a warming of the eastern Pacific Ocean, mainly along the Equator.
|
|
You know, the lady who's so fat she uses the equator as a belt?
|
|
Elsewhere, I hear a man talking to a boy about the equator and polar shifts.
|
|
New Jersey is about the same amount north of the equator as Spain and Portugal.
|
|
Taking the equator as the logical map center left big, confusing gaps near the poles.
|
|
The targeted landing spot is located to the north of the Mars equator Elysium Planitia.
|
|
The clouds that Spiga and his team modeled were closer to the equator of Mars.
|
|
This deep, cool water then travels back to the equator and the cycle is repeated.
|
|
Pluto has a dark stripe across the equator, which appears to be a global feature.
|
|
ET. The equinox occurs twice a year when the sun is directly above the equator.
|
|
For decades European competitors have dominated launches from the equator using the Guiana Space Center.
|
|
Researchers reported on Tuesday that the cancer, which invades mussels, has spread across the Equator.
|
|
The product: fresh and familiar, the most authentic New York bagel south of the equator.
|
|
The world is divided into four hemispheres based on the Equator and the Prime Meridian.
|
|
They depict a ridge around the moon's Equator that rises perhaps a couple of miles.
|
|
El Niño refers to a warming of the eastern Pacific Ocean, mainly along the Equator.
|
|
The archipelago lies astride the equator and is subject to the El Niño–Southern Oscillation phenomenon.
|
|
It's bulging at the equator, and craters are clearly visible, as are chunks of large rocks.
|
|
Near the equator the inaccuracies are small and the true shape of countries is well represented.
|
|
At the time this image was taken, the sun was 4 degrees north of the equator.
|
|
During the northern hemisphere's winter, the ITCZ sits south of the equator in the Indian Ocean.
|
|
Far from the equator, countries will actually see smaller temperature fluctuations, because of changing atmospheric patterns.
|
|
Users have effectively circled the equator 2,724 times or made 143 round trips to the moon.
|
|
It travels along different magnetic field lines, and appears at lower latitudes closer to the equator.
|
|
The event happened during the early afternoon in Elysium Planitia, a region on the Martian equator.
|
|
Another study found evidence that small, buried patches of ice might exist near the planet's equator.
|
|
Small satellites are usually destined for orbits running over the Earth's poles, rather than the equator.
|
|
Earlier this month, NASA launched its InSight probe, expected to land near Mars' equator in November.
|
|
However, it's not yet clear whether these patches are ubiquitous or exist solely around the equator.
|
|
Nor can you launch into geostationary transfer orbit — a highly elliptical path over the Earth's equator.
|
|
For the Valiant, that meant this particular bust coincided with a mariner's milestone: crossing the equator.
|
|
It slashes across the painting like an equator: the line between continents that is always imaginary.
|
|
They first voyaged below the equator in 1888, almost a century before a global tournament was organised.
|
|
The belt-shaped ring of peaks that surround the equator are also slightly brighter than their surroundings.
|
|
As it's just 2 degrees south of the equator, days are always almost exactly 12 hours long.
|
|
You can find the island on Google Maps, just south of the equator in the Pacific Ocean.
|
|
This warmer water is getting delivered to the equator, and it could be affecting the planet's climate.
|
|
Our Sun has a radius at the equator that's 6.2 miles (10 km) larger than the poles.
|
|
During the equinox, it becomes momentarily perfectly perpendicular, meaning the sun's rays pass directly over the equator.
|
|
Traveling southward, it eventually flew by the equator at a brisk 77,000 miles per hour (124,000 kph).
|
|
Also, Scotland was located closer to the equator back then, and it featured a semi-arid environment.
|
|
If you live north of the equator, you just lived through the summer solstice on June 21.
|
|
My two cars have enough miles between them to circle the earth ten times at the equator.
|
|
Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry—a narrow belt.
|
|
At La Mitad del Mundo, visitors can stand with one foot in each hemisphere at the equator.
|
|
The good news is that there are lots of ways to support the UN Equator Prize winners.
|
|
Jezero, a 28-mile-wide crater just north of Mars's Equator, was chosen from four finalist sites.
|
|
Both rockets are heading eastward over the Atlantic Ocean to deposit satellites high above the Earth's equator.
|
|
Radiation from the sun falls unequally on our tilted planet, hitting with most impact at the Equator.
|
|
About 70 countries around the world observe daylight saving, but many countries near the equator do not.
|
|
The complex is positioned around 345 miles north of the equator, providing similar launch advantages as Alcantara.
|
|
At that moment, the sun's position in the sky is exactly where the ecliptic (the plane of the solar system and the path that the planets take as they move through the constellations) crosses the celestial equator (the projection of the Earth's own equator onto the celestial sphere).
|
|
They seem to run from east to west, and they're located closer to the equator than typical auroras.
|
|
You’ve never been south of Earth’s Equator, or if so, you've never looked up.
|
|
The worst effects will be felt in the tropics — the warm, sunny region stretching across the Earth's equator.
|
|
Won't the parents feel proud to be exposing their children to the perils of life below the equator?
|
|
Countries located further from the equator such as the United States and European nations would see smaller hikes.
|
|
Intensity is one variable—the Earth's magnetic field is weakest at the equator and strongest at the poles.
|
|
The mission was to place a communications satellite belonging to Israel-based Spacecom into orbit over the equator.
|
|
Close-up of a large crater near Mars' equator, captured on November 22nd by the Trace Gas Orbiter.
|
|
Winds passing to and from the North and South Poles and the equator are subject to this effect.
|
|
The more complicated answer: Areas closer to the equator actually rotate faster than areas closer to the poles.
|
|
NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI The photo above shows the Serenity Chasma, part of a belt that encircles Charon's equator.
|
|
Satellite data has shown that certain regions of the world, generally those near the equator, are lightning dense.
|
|
Because Trinidad is so close to the equator, darkness there comes all at once, at about six-thirty.
|
|
Andreas Ryanto Molyo aboard the Fugro Equator while it was docked in Fremantle, not "as it entered Fremantle."
|
|
If you are west of the dateline, so west of Hawaii, north of the equator, you're a typhoon.
|
|
But points on the globe move fastest around the equator and slower as you move north or south.
|
|
In countries further from the equator, days are significantly shorter in the winter and longer in the summer.
|
|
By the end of the year, we will produce enough bubble wrap to encircle the Equator 0.23 times.
|
|
But for decades, low prize money and dates around the Christmas holidays kept many players above the Equator.
|
|
He's also heard of cases where people moved closer to the equator and their seasonal depression went away.
|
|
These are areas near the equator like Bermuda and the Bahamas that are already quite low in phytoplankton.
|
|
Then we read an incredible story, perhaps from Reader's Digest, about a boy who walked across the Equator.
|
|
With an area of more than 210 million square miles, Brazil is the largest country south of the equator.
|
|
In these same countries, which are often close to the equator, societies are also more likely to stress conformity.
|
|
Being near the equator is great for sending satellites into a type of orbit known as a geostationary orbit.
|
|
The images flaunt the truly funky shape of Pan: a rounded rock with a bulging ring at its equator.
|
|
Eventually, Rocket Lab will most likely find another launch site better suited for rockets flying eastward over the equator.
|
|
This meteor shower is best seen north of the equator, and should be visible to those in North America.
|
|
On Mars, a vast mountain belt—something planetary scientists call a "positive mass anomaly"—sits squarely on the equator.
|
|
Being close to the equator allows rockets to snag a bigger velocity boost from the rotation of the Earth.
|
|
The cacao-farming community of Daban, in Ghana, is seven degrees north of the equator, and it's always hot.
|
|
The line separating the two territories is known to German locals as the "Aldi equator," according to The Chronicle.
|
|
Places really on the equator are already really suffering, but that suffering is going to get much more dramatic.
|
|
But like all other UN Equator Prize winners, Kuruwitu Conservation & Welfare Association's work is becoming more relevant every day.
|
|
And therein lies another source of confusion: None of the countries that touch the Equator are four letters long.
|
|
Hemp is typically planted in March and May in northern climes, or between September and November below the Equator.
|
|
Data collected during Juno's flybys showed that water makes up 0.25% of molecules in Jupiter's atmosphere at its equator.
|
|
"Before the mass extinction, archosaurs were only found around the equator, but after it, they were everywhere," Peecook said.
|
|
The Apollo missions went to lower latitudes, closer to the lunar equator—a much more direct path from Earth.
|
|
In her latest adventure, she was trying to become the first woman to circumnavigate the planet at the Equator.
|
|
Yet the lower-dimensional shapes that divide the space of polynomials are not nearly as elegant as the equator.
|
|
Its rotation makes it bulge at the equator, and that affects the orbit of the Moon at the 10-6level.
|
|
Back then, Skye was a subtropical island situated much closer to the equator, containing lagoons, rushing rivers, and vast beaches.
|
|
One spot on the equator has to go a much greater distance than a spot near the poles, for instance.
|
|
Juno's instruments show that massive cyclones dominate the planet's poles, while a deep tropical band of ammonia circles its equator.
|
|
Good. Now, when you solve below the equator of this puzzle, reverse all that and go in the other direction.
|
|
On planets with significantly shorter days, he argues, the transfer of heat from equator to poles would be less efficient.
|
|
Given Valles Marineris' location along the Martian equator, it's highly unlikely that these would be caused by melting ground ice.
|
|
Similar effects were observed along other mountainous regions along Venus's equator, where the warmer temperatures fuel this particular weather feature.
|
|
Because of how Europa orbits Jupiter, the Sun more or less stays in the same spot at the moon's equator.
|
|
"Right on the equator, the winds and low pressure areas don't feel the force of the Coriolis itself," Landsea said.
|
|
These observations corroborate climate models, which predict that a belt of higher average pressure near the equator will migrate north.
|
|
Instead, communications satellites typically fly in eastward orbits near the equator so that they are closer to more populated areas.
|
|
"There's this paradigm that diversity is highest at the equator, and lessens as you move towards the poles," Zayed said.
|
|
Launching from nearer the equator means using less propellant, saving the country roughly $6 million each time it blasts off.
|
|
Sickness is occurring in the Bikoro health zone, 400 kilometers (about 250 miles) from Mbandaka, the capital of Equator province.
|
|
Experts are watching the hurricane to see if it'll cross southwards over the equator, which would be yet another first.
|
|
Eventually, the company hopes to put an array near the equator and two others closer to each of Earth's poles.
|
|
The mission team, led by planetary scientist Elizabeth Turtle, plans to land in the dune fields on the moon's equator.
|
|
This long title ran through the grid's Equator at 62A, FANTASTIC BEASTS; 68A, AND; and 74A, WHERE TO FIND THEM.
|
|
"Some locations near the equator get more rainfall than normal during El Niño, while others have reduced rainfall," he said.
|
|
Although the Apollo rocks are an important scientific resource, they came only from a small patch near the moon's Equator.
|
|
Once reaching the surface, easterly – from the east – trade winds along the equator carry the surface waters westward towards Asia.
|
|
But it's exact location within Elysium Planitia—a flat lava plain just north of the Martian equator—wasn't known until now.
|
|
"Geostationary" means the satellite rotates at the same speed as the Earth, in this case hovering 22,300 miles above the equator.
|
|
Solar also runs into issues during the winter months and at latitudes far from the equator because of shortened daylight hours.
|
|
From there, the spacecraft's orbit will take it around the sun at an angle of 24 degrees above the sun's equator.
|
|
If that happens, the spacecraft could get even closer to the poles, at a 33-degree angle to the sun's equator.
|
|
In order to provide this capability, today's satellite, called WS-93, is meant to orbit 22,000 miles above the Earth's equator.
|
|
Cynthia Phillips, NASA's Europa project staff scientist, says it's possible that other explanations may explain the weird readings at the equator.
|
|
Over the last few decades and years, noctilucent clouds have become brighter and they're starting to spread closer to the equator.
|
|
Daphnis sits in a precarious orbit within a gap in Saturn's ring, and it also features a "skirt" around its equator.
|
|
Image: NASAInSight landed close to the equator and is currently experiencing the Martian winter—a time when storms become more active.
|
|
Photo: GettyThe farther you get from the equator, the less effective solar panels become at reliably generating power all year round.
|
|
North of the equator, it's a human-defined timeframe based on the fact that the Earth rotates around a tilted axis.
|
|
Another important factor is low elevation and positioning near the equator for better sun exposure, for both power and thermal conditions.
|
|
It's also rotating 50 times faster than our sun -- so fast that its poles have flattened and the equator bulges out.
|
|
The researchers believe the particles came from the rings because they were most common around the planet's equator and high altitudes.
|
|
Actor Alec Baldwin, an advocate with the Equator Initiative, will discuss inequality faced by Indigenous communities at the Social Good Summit.
|
|
The researchers did find increased diversity at the equator, but they also found a surprising amount of diversity in the Arctic.
|
|
"If you have a region around the equator that's lower, it's a lot easier to accumulate more material there," Matsuyama says.
|
|
Straddling the celestial equator, the sun splits its time exactly between the day side and the night side of the Earth.
|
|
Hitchcock has noticed that lovers of Equator-Coffees are repping their favorite cafe all over the Bay Area in this hoodie.
|
|
They're found on steep, rocky slopes on the darkest areas of Mars: the equator, the northern plains, the southern mid-latitudes.
|
|
The surface mission is tasked with hunting for signs of life on Mars in the Oxia region at the Martian equator.
|
|
The space station spends less time traversing the Earth near the equator than it does these more northern and southern regions.
|
|
Their conclusion: There are 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic floating in our oceans — enough to circulate the Earth's equator 425 times.
|
|
In April, Ebola afflicted an area of Equator Province that included Mbandaka, a river port with more than one million inhabitants.
|
|
The 1995 Galileo probe data was dropped into a "hotspot" in the boundary between the equator and the north equatorial belt.
|
|
The equinox happens twice a year, in March and September, when Earth's equator lines up with the center of the sun.
|
|
Because that area is not at the planet&aposs poles or equator, it offers a promising place to land astronauts someday.
|
|
The seventh and eighth images were taken just before the spacecraft was at its closest point to Jupiter, near Jupiter's equator.
|
|
In the days ahead she would visit four new countries, cross the equator and see the Pacific Ocean for the first time.
|
|
Additionally, rockets at the equator get an extra boost in speed, thanks to the Earth's rotation, which helps rockets save on fuel.
|
|
This is a path 22,000 miles above the Earth's equator where satellites are traveling at the same speed as the Earth's rotation.
|
|
Additionally, the Earth is actually moving faster at the equator than other points on the planet, which is good news for rockets.
|
|
Bolton compares the ammonia band to the tropical band around Earth — the region around the equator that has its own distinct climate.
|
|
Certain staples—think poutine—make a lot of sense the further you get from the equator, no matter where you are latitudinally.
|
|
COME wintertime thousands of garden warblers, pied flycatchers, and bobolinks—all tiny songbirds—will cross the equator heading south for sunnier climes.
|
|
Warming Pacific waters along the equator, known as El Nino conditions, contributed to the rainy weather in southeast Brazil in recent months.
|
|
There's also that weird, pimple-shaped mountain near Ceres' equator, which scientists suspect is a gigantic ice volcano—perhaps one of many.
|
|
That means launching closer to the equator actually gives rockets an extra boost of speed that helps them achieve orbit more easily.
|
|
Rockets are anyway more efficient the closer they are launched to the equator, where the faster rotation of Earth provides extra lift.
|
|
"The Sun for Europa goes straight overhead at the equator every day, all day long, all years long, for forever," says Hobley.
|
|
Dan Marrone, experimental astrophysicist at the University of Arizona, previously told me that our galactic center lies south of the celestial equator.
|
|
In the Southern Hemisphere, winds traveling toward the equator will move eastward, and winds traveling toward the South Pole will curve west.
|
|
In East Africa, hoofed animals may be harboring more zoonotic viruses and along the equator there are clusters of primate-borne viruses.
|
|
What is known, however, is that marine snow flourishes in certain oceans, such as near the equator in the Pacific and Atlantic.
|
|
So crack open a Foster's, throw some shrimp on the barbie and say g'day to the sexiest model south of the equator.
|
|
Around the planet's equator, they spotted a series of puzzling dark and light patches, each measuring tens of thousands of kilometres across.
|
|
Chimborazo is close to the Equator, but Everest is 28 degrees north latitude, nearly one-third of the way to the pole.
|
|
If you were to stand directly on the equator at the moment the equinox peaks — which came at precisely 3:50 a.m.
|
|
It has four cameras that stare at orange slices of the sky from pole to equator for 27 days at a time.
|
|
Cacao thrives in a narrow band around the Equator, and only under specific conditions — high humidity, abundant rain and fairly constant temperatures.
|
|
Kingfisher is also in a small crater near the equator, free of large rocks and showing a signature of including hydrated minerals.
|
|
The Galápagos penguins, the only penguins that live north of the Equator, are endangered, with fewer than 2,000 left in the world.
|
|
The vernal equinox begins when the sun is directly above the Earth's equator and the length of day and night are equal.
|
|
Unusual events In December 2018, Fletcher co-authored a study that identified a regular pattern of unusual meteorological events at Jupiter's equator.
|
|
Click here to view original GIFAn animation showing clear bright spots appearing close to the equator that scientists have interpreted as dust storms.
|
|
You'd assume that on such a hot planet (Mercury is 840°F at the equator), there'd be absolutely no chance of ice forming.
|
|
When that impact occurred isn't yet certain, but it's possible that Sputnik Planum didn't start out in its present location near the equator.
|
|
If you live south of the Equator or in any of the countries that light up green in the map above, you're good.
|
|
They say that the penitentes may explain some really weird radar readings and heat signatures that the Galileo probe found at Europa's equator.
|
|
For one, the ice extends close the equator, which, in Mars' current "warm phase" is considered the most hospitable part of the planet.
|
|
Likewise, if you add a bunch of mass to a planet's north pole, the extra weight will tug that pole toward the equator.
|
|
But perhaps the most stunning image shows a crater within the rim of a larger crater near Mars' equator, according to the ESA.
|
|
Large communications satellites of the sort SpaceX deals with are usually boosted into what are known as geosynchronous orbits, 35,786km above the equator.
|
|
Viewers near the equator will have the best view of the Aquarids, but folks farther north should still get to see some meteors.
|
|
During an equinox, the sun is at the closest distance to the equator, while during a solstice it is the furthest distance away.
|
|
Objects around the equator are to scale relative to one another, while objects closer to the poles appear larger than they really are.
|
|
Many of the world's deserts are located in regions of sinking air, typically around 30 degrees latitude on either side of the equator.
|
|
As if this planet weren't strange enough, it also orbits perpendicular to its star, traveling around the star's poles rather than the equator.
|
|
A Hadley cell is the atmospheric circulation of air rising near the equator that creates hurricanes, jet streams, trade winds and rain belts.
|
|
Region 3.4 straddles the equator from 5 degrees north to 23 degrees south and stretches from 120 degrees west to 170 degrees west.
|
|
Region 3.4 straddles the equator from 5 degrees north to 5 degrees south and stretches from 120 degrees west to 170 degrees west.
|
|
That's because Pluto's axis is extremely tilted compared to Earth's, making it easier for regions around Pluto's equator to be in permanent shadow.
|
|
The radiation belts are shaped a bit like giant donuts stemming from Jupiter's equator, but they're not as strong at the planet's poles.
|
|
" Shoigu cited Russia's need for refueling bases near the equator and that "it is imperative that our navy has the opportunities for replenishment.
|
|
Andreas Ryanto Molyo, the commander of the Fugro Equator, the worst moment came during the same confluence of storms that alarmed Mr. Miller.
|
|
The storms form over warm ocean water near the equator, when sea surface temperature is at least 80 degrees, according to the NHC.
|
|
The distance and direction the women's sailboat covered was "a normal drift pattern," assuming it started drifting north of the equator, he said.
|
|
Bucking the standard winter convention of traveling toward the equator, DeAndre has instead gone all the way to literally winter itself, a.k.a. Iceland.
|
|
In the Southern Hemisphere, some creators are waiting months before they travel again as winter will soon be setting in below the equator.
|
|
The farther north from the equator you are, the less sunlight you'll get during the solstice — and the longer the night will be.
|
|
In Gazi Bay, Southern Kenya, Mikoko Pamoja (Mangroves Together), was recognised by the UN Equator Prize for its pioneering approach to mangroves restoration.
|
|
The location for India's first control center — a remote fishing hamlet on the Indian Ocean — was chosen for its proximity to the Equator.
|
|
The farther north from the equator you are, the less sunlight you'll get during the solstice — and the longer the night will be.
|
|
And the X-37B is going to a higher inclination orbit than usual — or a much more tilted orbit in relation to the equator.
|
|
Hawaii is one state that opts out, because its close proximity to the equator means its daylight hours don't vary much throughout the year.
|
|
These are particles flowing westward, faster than the speed of sound, in thin jets closer to the equator than the rest of the lights.
|
|
About 90 percent of the global population lives north of the equator, so it's no wonder that the Southern Hemisphere often gets short-shift.
|
|
Such ice would exist in Europa's mid-to-high altitudes, further from its equator, where the moon points away from Jupiter, the researchers write.
|
|
Those living south of the equator will get one final chance to spot C/2016 U1 NEOWISE on the last day of the month.
|
|
The Earth is a slightly smushed sphere: its diameter at its equator is slightly bigger than its diameter through the north and south pole.
|
|
Due to rotational flattening, the radius of the Earth at the Equator is 21km larger than the radius of the Earth at the poles.
|
|
Current satellites that provide internet from space are situated over the equator, 237,000 miles high — a long distance that makes transmission and connectivity slow.
|
|
And from that ring extends a wispy white halo, with denser streamers reaching out from the sun's equator, at roughly 2000 and 5003 o'clock.
|
|
If that's the case, that could mean more dangerous deluges and damaging floods are on the way for countries and islands near the equator.
|
|
The Eta Aquarids are highly visible for people living in the Southern Hemisphere, but more difficult to observe for those north of the equator.
|
|
The transport of heat from the equator to the North Pole would shut down, and the northern hemisphere would plunge into an ice age.
|
|
Because of its proximity to the equator, territory in developing countries is particularly valuable for launching into space, communicating with spacecraft, and monitoring orbit.
|
|
This is because of the role played in the monsoon by the "intertropical convergence zone" (ITCZ) which encircles the world close to the equator.
|
|
Their paper finds that, as the planet warms, soil in areas near the equator will dry up, reducing its ability to dampen temperature swings.
|
|
But while Sputnik Planitia revealed things about the former ninth planet we never expected to learn, its location, at Pluto's equator, posed a mystery.
|
|
Click here to view original GIFOptical images of the surface clouds surrounding Jupiter's equator alternate with new radio images of cloud layers deeper down.
|
|
"So one of the safest places from hurricanes in the tropics is right on the equator, because hurricanes never form there or track there."
|
|
GC: The general premise is we know, especially near the equator, climate change is going to have a big impact on the economy overall.
|
|
In some places, strips of white painter's tape, with descriptive markings such as "Arctic Circle" and "0°/ Equator," provide a semblance of geospatial orientation.
|
|
The crater is located in the Valles Marineris region near the equator, and it formed at some point between September 2016 and February 2019.
|
|
Eventually, SES-9 will sit at 22,000 miles above the equator, providing communications service to Northeast Asia, South Asia, and Indonesia, according to SES.
|
|
The winds transporting the main or "south-west" monsoon come from an area south of the equator which is characterised by high atmospheric pressure.
|
|
Part of the issue is that there aren't very many continents around to serve as windbreaks, as warm air from the Equator rushes south.
|
|
The Great Lakes basin spans 10 degrees of latitude and 5763 degrees of longitude — set almost exactly between the Equator and the North Pole.
|
|
"Westerly wind bursts" — which blow in the opposite direction from normal trade winds north of the equator — can help bring above-average ocean temperatures.
|
|
And you can also consider donating to the UN Equator Prize crowdfunding campaign to help the winners tell their stories to a global audience.
|
|
Much of the country, a string of atolls and reef islands that straddles the Equator, lies no higher than six feet above sea level.
|
|
Currents help regulate weather, transporting warm water and precipitation from the equator toward the poles, and colder water from the poles to the tropics.
|
|
For it's a bizarre double world that Villalpando depicts, not cleanly divided, but bleeding across its Equator, from Old Testament to New and back.
|
|
Working through two world wars and the Great Depression, Beebe's coed team had an affinity for costume parties, music nights and equator-crossing ceremonies.
|
|
Because our seasons are the opposite of those north of the equator, our traditions include seafood, light clothing, pools, backyard cricket, and the beach.
|
|
The Alcantara base sits about 53 miles south of the Earth's equator, making it a prime location for launching satellites, a $260 billion business.
|
|
Also, as oceans warm, so do their ability to fuel strong tropical cyclones, and keep those cyclones spinning further and further from the equator.
|
|
On the equinox, the earth's position in relation to the sun causes the sun to pass directly overhead at the equator, the Farmer's Almanac explains.
|
|
HandUp CEO Rose Broome also announced today that people can now buy these gift cards at physical retail locations, like Equator Coffee and The Hall.
|
|
We thought that once the vortex got too close to the equator, it would break up and perhaps create a spectacular outburst of cloud activity.
|
|
These jagged geological ridges—the highest of which reach an astounding 1,600 feet (500 meters)—are found at Pluto's highest altitudes and near the equator.
|
|
InSight landed at Elysium Planitia, a flat plain located just north of the Martian equator, on November 26, which already seems like an eternity ago.
|
|
The Earth's equator is its widest section, so it has a long way to travel each time the planet makes a full 24-hour rotation.
|
|
Most satellites that provide internet coverage from space are in much higher orbits known as geostationary orbit — a path about 22,000 miles above the equator.
|
|
The wide diversity of marine mammals and seabirds in polar regions is a biological oddity, because species tend to be more varied nearer the equator.
|
|
On the equinox, the earth's position in relation to the sun causes the sun to pass directly overhead at the equator, the Farmer's Almanac explains.
|
|
But the Earth spins faster at the equator than at the poles, because our planet's midsection has the furthest distance to travel with each rotation.
|
|
The wind curves the opposite direction based on whether you are above or below the equator, since the Earth's rotation gets slower on alternate sides.
|
|
Models showed polar water flowing towards the equator at the surface, then sinking at the tropics, and then traveling back towards the poles at depth.
|
|
They found that ice seems to be turning into gas at a high rate at the equator, making it possible that penitentes are growing there.
|
|
The Lightpad Block M, Seaboard Block, and Beatmaker Kit, Seaboard Block Bundle (without Equator), Songmaker Kit, and Seaboard Rise 49 are all 20 percent off.
|
|
It dove out of deep space almost perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic — the plane around the sun's equator where all the planets orbited.
|
|
It is due to reach its destination in six months, landing on a broad, smooth plain close to the planet's equator called the Elysium Planitia.
|
|
Just 345 miles north of the equator, the launch pad is owned by the European Space Agency and operated by the French national space agency.
|
|
Nordheim and his team discovered that the radiation on the surface was at its most intense around the moon's equator, tapering out towards the poles.
|
|
Far to the north of Banfield, on the other side of the Equator, trouble was stirring in a poor, neglected, rural part of Latin America.
|
|
"You could beam electricity from Canada to the Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of South America from a satellite at equator," Mankins said.
|
|
The Jogja Biennial Equator #5, Do We Live in the Same Playground is on view at various locations in Yogyakarta, Indonesia through November 30, 2019.
|
|
Most advantageous is its geographical position — Alcântara is the closest launch site to the equator — which could drop fuel costs as much as 30 percent.
|
|
There was an independent measurement of ring material falling directly onto Saturn's equator by the Cassini spacecraft during its thirteen-year mission observing the planet.
|
|
Much of the reason has to do with physics: launching rockets from a site relatively close to the Equator gives a speed boost into orbit.
|
|
Available in the United States, its casks are famously carried aboard ships that cross the Equator twice before it is sold, to mellow the spirit.
|
|
The Earth is round, but not a perfect sphere, and is actually flatter at the poles with bulge around the Equator, hence the equatorial bulge.
|
|
The 18 modern species of penguin, ranging from the coast of Antarctica to the Galápagos Islands at the Equator, are impressively adapted to aquatic life.
|
|
But the airline has expanded quickly, in part because of the urgent need for air travel in an island nation spread out across the Equator.
|
|
Last month's elections, for both presidential and legislative seats, involved more than 800,000 polling stations spread out across thousands of islands flung across the Equator.
|
|
As we started sailing away from Asia to Africa, the entire ship celebrated Neptune Day, an old maritime tradition commemorating the crossing of the equator.
|
|
The plains of Elysium Planitia, found along the Martian equator, are between highlands to the south and west and volcanoes to the north and east.
|
|
As a result of its rotation, the Earth bulges slightly at the equator, not unlike how a skater&aposs skirt fans out as she spins.
|
|
Instead, he said, his nonprofit is looking at ways to grow food in greenhouses near the equator, where there would still be some natural sunlight.
|
|
NASA doesn&apost want to land astronauts at a spot near the planet&aposs equator, either, because it&aposs too warm for ice to exist.
|
|
In our star in particular, the equator goes around every 25 days, but the poles lag, taking a leisurely 30 days to complete their rotation.
|
|
The other reason planets and stars aren't quite spherical is that they rotate: this squashes them a little so that they are fatter around the equator.
|
|
Juno was nearly three-fifths of the way from Jupiter's equator to its north pole, and conducting its ninth close flyby, when the photo was taken.
|
|
Measurements have revealed a super-deep band of ammonia around the planet's equator — and it goes as deep into the planet as the spacecraft can see.
|
|
Instead, the storm seems like it's just fading into nothing as it moves toward Neptune's south pole and not the planet's equator as expected, NASA said.
|
|
The length of the largest equator is half the circumference = pi x r, where r is the radius of the bouquet, assuming it is a sphere.
|
|
While a single degree's shift in temperature may have noticeable effects at the equator, in the Arctic it changes ice to water, totally altering the landscape.
|
|
The West Coast experiences a wet winter due to an atmospheric river that transports tropical moisture from warmer areas near the equator across the Pacific Ocean.
|
|
And it may have struck Pluto hundreds of millions to billions of years ago, long before Sputnik Planum migrated to its present position near the equator.
|
|
Hawaii doesn't experience a huge difference in daylight hours from season to season due to its proximity to the equator, so the state doesn't observe DST.
|
|
These streaks are located on canyons near the equator, an area which the scientists say is too warm to support melting ice deposits near the surface.
|
|
For nearly three years, coral reefs—which grow mainly in warm, tropical waters near the equator—have suffered a mass bleaching event due to excessive heat.
|
|
Block 12's remaining stakes are controlled by Sao Tome and Principe's National Petroleum Agency and Equator Exploration, according to a statement released by the agency.
|
|
The winds transporting it come from an area of high atmospheric pressure in the southern Indian Ocean, and cross the equator before raging over the land.
|
|
The Jetsons-style coffeemaker can sling 261 cups of joe per hour at specs that satisfy finicky roasters (and project partners) like Intelligentsia, Ritual and Equator.
|
|
It reaches its fastest speeds during the winter in the northern hemisphere, when temperature contrast between the equator and the North Pole is at its maximum.
|
|
Equator Coffees has five cafe locations in the Bay Area, and it sells a soft, heather-grey hoodie with its red tiger logo on the back.
|
|
PDV-positive mammals have been found along eastern Russia and Japan's Hokkaido coast, but Goldstein doesn't think the virus would ever spread south of the equator.
|
|
But a handful of social media posts from Iqaluit, nearly 4,400 miles north of the equator, showed the city basked in a pink hue on Tuesday.
|
|
They had first picked up a large swirl on meteorological radar screens barreling up from the Equator, deep in the ocean between Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
|
|
They say the reserves serve as havens for species depleted elsewhere and for populations migrating away from the Equator, where warming waters are lowering plankton density.
|
|
She has also written and theorized about the hot zone between the equator and the tenth parallel, and recorded the poetry of Pashtun women in Afghanistan.
|
|
Scientists have used data from the first eight flybys to determine the amount of water in Jupiter's atmosphere at the equator, according to a new study.
|
|
It's a maritime custom that when you cross the Equator, you leap into a pool of green water and kiss a dead fish on the lips.
|
|
Schools and universities have been closed and most public gatherings banned in Samoa, located south of the equator about half way between Hawaii and New Zealand.
|
|
Dragonfly would launch from Earth in 2026 and land on Titan in 2034, on the Shangri-La dune fields (their actual name) near the moon's equator.
|
|
Trees grow and take up carbon more quickly near the equator, for example, where it is warm and humid, and land is relatively cheap and available.
|
|
This tiny moon (about 20 miles wide) has a bulging ring at its equator — giving it the shape of a walnut, ravioli, hand grenade, and much more.
|
|
A map made by Europe for Europe On the Mercator map, Africa -- sitting on the equator, reasonably undistorted -- is left looking much smaller than it really is.
|
|
"When you see a $15 cup, this is a coffee that is not about prolific production," Brooke McDonnell, of San Rafael's Equator Coffees & Teas, told the Chronicle.
|
|
There is no doubting the potential of Indonesia, an archipelago of 27.5,500 islands that stretches 3,330 miles (5,360km) along the equator—the distance from London to Afghanistan.
|
|
After entering the Mars atmosphere, the 600kg craft, known as Schiaparelli, should have deployed a parachute before touching down six minutes later somewhere near the planet's equator.
|
|
Thanks to the site's location, the pad is best suited for satellites going into low- to mid-inclination orbits, or paths that run diagonally to the equator.
|
|
The 60 x 10 mile (100 x 15 km) elliptical target is located within the Meridiani Planum region in the southern highlands of Mars near the equator.
|
|
That trip's high-altitude orbit, more than 22,000 miles above the equator, saw the first stage booster re-enter Earth's atmosphere faster and hotter than ever before.
|
|
Countries closer to the equator rely more heavily on fish for their food supply, and their economies would be severely impacted by a decrease in fish catches.
|
|
Astronomically, the equinox occurs when the sun is exactly above the equator, which causes both the southern and northern hemispheres to receive the same amount of light.
|
|
It works this way: Like a record on a turntable, the earth spins at a different speed at the equator than it does at the North Pole.
|
|
The same is true of anything that spins or rotates — the outside edge of something (in this case, the equator) always spins faster than the inside edge.
|
|
"The farthest south we have seen a hurricane or tropical storm form in the Atlantic is about 7 or 8 degrees north of the equator," Landsea said.
|
|
We even have movies of briny water flowing today on the surface of Mars, where it is warmest near the equator in the middle of the day.
|
|
Cannabis grows on a 12-hour cycle very well and the equator runs through the country's southern sector [making its warm climate conducive to the plant's growth].
|
|
You're a pop star who is on tour Down Under and you're maybe feeling like you woke up on the wrong side of the equator or something.
|
|
Swirls of frigid air, called a polar vortex, which are normally dissipated by warm air in the tropics, could travel all the way down to the equator.
|
|
Under the artistic direction of curator Alia Swastika, the Biennale brings together a new cohort of curators every two years to contemplate artistic production along the equator.
|
|
The largest wave "was like an eight-story building coming at the boat," said Mr. Miller, the chief ocean floor surveyor aboard the ship, the Fugro Equator.
|
|
Fortunately, there are at least good maps of the known fantasy world, and the Game of Thrones books reveal what areas lie near the center, or equator.
|
|
The end of Ecuador's conservation initiative for the eastern Yasuni, a vast swath of rainforest on the equator, drew outrage from environmentalists when it was first announced.
|
|
In July 2015, NASA's New Horizons arrived at Pluto and spent three months investigating the dwarf planet, including its famous heart, a bright formation near the equator.
|
|
Hurricanes like Dorian start out over warm ocean water near the equator, where the sea's surface temperature is at least 80 degrees and the air is humid.
|
|
And it's not only Young that sees conservation and poverty as two sides of the same coin, it's a recurring conviction for all UN Equator Prize winners.
|
|
Guests looking to get work done will appreciate free Wi-Fi, desks with charging stations, and coffee by the Bay Area roaster Equator for in-room brewing.
|
|
Osprey is also on the equator in a small crater, showing signs of carbon-rich material and diverse rocks, and has several areas that could be sampled.
|
|
Just like Earth, the Sun also has poles on its "top" and "bottom," but they've been hard to see since our planet orbits near the Sun's equator.
|
|
With its 2000,21 islands strung across the Equator, many with their own unique plants and animals, separated by relatively short distances, Indonesia is a naturalist's promised land.
|
|
But finding that genetic material would be a long shot, she knew: Shum Laka is close to the Equator and has a heavy rainy season each year.
|
|
The data will improve how scientists predict and observe hurricanes and tropical storms brewing near the Equator and the tropics, according to NASA, which sponsored the project.
|
|
InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is situated on a flat region called Elysium Planitia just north of the Martian equator.
|
|
If you move the filter 180 degrees around the sphere's equator, the filter's orientation stays the same: dark blob on the left, light blob on the right.
|
|
Osprey is on the equator in a small crater, showing signs of carbon-rich material and diverse rocks, and it has several areas that could be sampled.
|
|
Since the default state of trade winds near the equator is already easterly, the trade winds are amplified, blowing towards the west much more strongly than usual.
|
|
The equator — which passes through Murillo's native country of Colombia and, therefore, carries a personal significance — becomes both a point of reference and a nebulous geographic construct.
|
|
Nor does the lunacy north of the Equator, where some of this country's most progressive major cities have begun to experiment with price controls of their own.
|
|
Also, the comet will be diving into the Southern Hemisphere, so it will be even harder for us to see north of the Equator, Dr. Jewitt said.
|
|
In 2016, S7 formed Russia's first private space launch company, spending about $150 million to adapt an oil platform at sea near the Equator to launch rockets.
|
|
A second shuttle launch site was under construction in California to allow the shuttle to orbit the planet from pole to pole, rather than around the equator.
|
|
The Beijing News added that the northern hemisphere was not as good a place to utilize solar power as the equator, but that the geographic conditions were better.
|
|
Polar wander is best illustrated by one hypothesis about the largest mountain in the solar system, Olympus Mons on Mars: "It wasn't created near the equator," said Leconte.
|
|
Thanks to its mountainous terrain and its position directly on the equator, you can choose almost any climate you like simply by moving up or down in altitude.
|
|
Signs that experts like Halpert are looking for before declaring an El Niño advisory include: A slackening of the easterly trade winds along and north of the equator.
|
|
So a rocket launching on the equator gets an extra speed boost, making it easier for the vehicle to reach the extra high velocities needed to achieve orbit.
|
|
Global temperatures will make cities closer to the equator like Abu Dhabi and New Delhi potentially uninhabitable without modern air conditioning that is all pervasive and terribly expensive.
|
|
These shirts began as cotton bolls in fields on the equator in the far west of Uganda, where the red-earth plains turn upwards into the Rwenzori mountains.
|
|
The fall equinox technically occurs when the sun crosses the equator from north to south, during which time the day and night are nearly the same the length.
|
|
The angle between the field lines and the Earth changes with latitude, so an animal migrating northwards from the equator encounters steadily steeper inclination angles on its route.
|
|
One of the most richly described scenes is the Christmas market, which overflows with abundance: Spanish onions, bunches of Mediterranean grapes, and oranges and lemons from the equator.
|
|
And as the difference in temperatures between the Arctic and the equator diminishes, so could the pressure gradient that drives large scale air currents like the jet stream.
|
|
But fall doesn't officially start until the sun crosses the Earth's equator from north to south, in an event known as the autumnal equinox, or within Paganism, Mabon.
|
|
Under Huami's Amazfit brand, the company has previously released products like the $50 ceramic, "fashionable" Amazfit Moonbeam and Equator activity trackers and the $50 Amazfit Arc fitness tracker.
|
|
The moon is tipped 5 degrees from Earth's equator and it feels a tug from both the Earth and sun, as well as a tiny pull from Jupiter.
|
|
A polar-orbiting satellite, by definition, overflies the poles every orbit; but, with the earth spinning beneath it, it crosses the Equator at a different longitude each time.
|
|
That means the planet's tropics can stretch far to its north, just as its arctic regions can almost reach the equator, depending on its position against the sun.
|
|
Not only would she become the first woman to do so, but she would also be the first person to fly a route so close to the equator.
|
|
It's a polar orbit that will take the satellite from pole to pole, unlike lower Earth orbit, for instance, which runs from west to east near the equator.
|
|
The critical area of the ocean stretches from 120 degrees to 170 degrees west of Greenwich and straddles the equator from 5 degrees south to 5 degrees north.
|
|
Currently, the majority of the world's supply of coffee comes from the "bean belt," a group of countries near the equator, including Brazil, Ethiopia, Colombia, Vietnam, and Indonesia.
|
|
" Also, "[the Amazfit Equator is] designed to offer sleek sophistication, the ceramic shell is surrounded by a simple, minimalistic band in complementary matted black or rose gold tones.
|
|
Called Kawsak Sacha, or "Living Forests," the proposal demanded an end to drilling, mining, logging and other extractive industries on indigenous land, from the Arctic to the equator.
|
|
Stargazers south of the Equator will see between 20 and 30 meteors per hour during the peak, while those to the north will catch about half as many.
|
|
The small dots were first spotted during a flyby in 2005 in the "smooth plain" region of the little moon, facing Saturn and just north of the equator.
|
|
From 1373 to 2137, the United States conducted 230 nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands, a series of atolls located north of the equator between Hawaii and Australia.
|
|
The spring equinox is a point in Earth's orbit where the sun shines directly above the Equator, creating nearly equal periods of daytime and nighttime across the globe.
|
|
Most of our telecommunications needs are covered by geosynchronous satellites that hover over spots on the equator to transmit television broadcasts, internet communications, and long-distance telephone calls.
|
|
The satellites travel in a circumpolar orbit, meaning that instead of tracing the Equator they fly on a path that we might consider northerly, cruising over the poles.
|
|
CreditCreditDon Hogan Charles/The New York Times In the Northern Hemisphere, spring can be defined as the moment the sun glides across the celestial equator in late March.
|
|
Daylight saving time ends for them this weekend; as they fall back another hour, in Johor, 101 miles from the Equator, time and I will remain the same.
|
|
"We found the water in the equator to be greater than what the Galileo probe measured," said Cheng Li, a Juno scientist at the University of California, Berkeley.
|
|
That was the case here for me, a Donald Glover superfan, and hopefully a lot of you also felt the thrill of confidently inking in this puzzle's Equator.
|
|
These GEO satellites, which circle the globe tens of thousands of miles away, orbit at the equator to provide maximum coverage for services such as communications or broadband.
|
|
Earth's climate changed from being tropical to semitropical worldwide to becoming divided into climate zones as it is today with frozen poles and tropical conditions at the equator.
|
|
For that reason, scientists think a site nearer to the equator would be the best fit because of the warmer temperatures and better balance of day and night.
|
|
But as an exceptionally large archipelago with close proximity to the equator, Indonesia stands out for the richness and extent of its mangroves and the biodiversity they contain.
|
|
This actually set the stage for the conditions we see on Earth now -- arctic conditions at the North and South poles and more tropical conditions around the equator.
|
|
"Bali is one of those places that's pretty constant temperature wise because it's near the equator," said Sandy Staples, the president of Artistico Travel Consultants, a Folsom, Calif.
|
|
In the case of the Carrington Event, however, the incoming mass from the sun was so enormous the aurorae were observed as close to the equator as Cuba.
|
|
The JPL controllers also expect to receive a photo of the probe's surroundings on the flat, smooth Martian plain close to the planet's equator called the Elysium Planitia.
|
|
If the asteroid/moon/planet is rotating, it will take on the shape of an oblate ellipsoid that is flattened along the poles and bulges out at the equator.
|
|
The Marajó island is very close to the equator, so it's not clear which population this whale came from, but either way it's not where it would normally be.
|
|
It would also help them determine what to anticipate from a slowdown in a crucial ocean current that draws heat north from the equator, changing ecosystems and weather patterns.
|
|
The spacecraft's orbit is a high one above Earth known as geostationary orbit, or GEO — a path above the equator where satellites match the eastward rotation of the planet.
|
|
This is most evident in the commonly used Mercator projections that properly represents the size of land around the equator but super-sizes land in the Arctic and Antarctic.
|
|
But Hesselbrock and others find that theory unlikely—both Phobos and Deimos seem to have orbits far too circular and aligned with Mars' equator to imply such an origin.
|
|
It'll be carrying a 13,400-pound communications satellite from a London-based corporation called Inmarsat-5 F4 into a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) some 22,300 miles above Earth's equator.
|
|
Mahia is farther from the equator than most launch sites (lifting off from an equatorial pad extracts maximum additional velocity from Earth's spin), but that is also an advantage.
|
|
The Maldives are literally atop the Equator — not the top of the world, which Garrett seems to think it is — which is maybe all too hot for a tux.
|
|
Western winds were picking up along the equator and sea surface temperatures were heating up in a way that suggested El Niño would crash the party by that summer.
|
|
GOES-16, which captured the roiling storms above the Texas Panhandle, is situated over the equator and can see the entire U.S. A Colorado supercell on May 19, 2019.
|
|
In order to get all of this high quality weather information, GOES-R is headed to a geostationary orbit — a circular path about 22,000 miles above the Earth's equator.
|
|
In countries near or on the equator, such as Saudi Arabia, Singapore and Indonesia, this movement makes little difference to the hours of daylight critical to observe the fast.
|
|
According to the United Nations Environment Program, in 2012 alone the world used enough concrete to build a wall 89 feet high and 89 feet wide around the Equator.
|
|
The Gulf of Maine lies at the intersection of several major ocean currents, including the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, which moves dense, cold water down and toward the equator.
|
|
The GOES-R is slated to reach its final designated orbit, 22,300 miles above the equator, within two weeks, at which point it will be renamed to GOES-16.
|
|
Further north of the equator, Charles Bennett, who now fights under the nom de guerre "Felony" but will be forever infamous as "Krazy Horse," was MMA's disreputable little secret.
|
|
And Hawaii hasn't followed it since becoming a state -- since it's so close to the equator, the sun shines for basically the same amount of time throughout the seasons.
|
|
The grid's Equator, at 64A, does rely on your awareness that a taxonomist names and categorizes all kinds of things, not just members of the animal and plant kingdoms.
|
|
Poor countries have less capacity than rich ones to adapt to changing weather patterns, and tend to be closer to the equator, where weather patterns are becoming most volatile.
|
|
The solstice is the opposite: On those days, the sun appears at its furthest point from the equator, and the lengths of day and night are the most unequal.
|
|
The JPL controllers also expect to receive a photograph of the probe's new surroundings on the flat, smooth Martian plain close to the planet's equator called the Elysium Planitia.
|
|
The June solstice marks the highest (northern summer) or lowest (southern winter) point that the sun sits in the sky relative to the equator, at noon of that day.
|
|
The summer solstice is upon us: Friday, June 21 is the longest day of 2019, and the start of the summer season, for anyone living north of the equator.
|
|
South of Arabia Terra, running east to west along the equator, are the long dark features known as Sinus Sabaeus (to the east) and Sinus Meridiani (to the west).
|
|
On August 12th, 23, Cassini became the first probe to take photos up close of an equinox at Saturn, when the Sun's disc was exactly overhead at the planet's equator.
|
|
Additionally, the Hainan site is closer to the equator, to better accommodate satellite launches to geostationary orbit, and allows rocket debris to fall into water instead of back to land.
|
|
It's shooting for Elysium Planitia, a plain near the Martian equator that the InSight team hopes is as flat as a parking lot in Kansas with few, if any, rocks.
|
|
That's because the temperature difference between the North Pole and the equator, which drives atmospheric energy in the form of winds and storm systems, is shrinking as the Arctic warms.
|
|
The map revealed an intensely magnetic spot near the equator that they called the Great Blue Spot, and a longer band from which the field emanated closer to the pole.
|
|
They focused on features of their orbits such as how oval-shaped or eccentric they were, or how tilted or inclined they were with respect to the sun&aposs equator.
|
|
A supersonic parachute and retro-rocket thrusters worked to slow it down sufficiently for a three-legged, soft landing on the Elysium Planitia — a flat region near the planet's equator.
|
|
Be smart: Those who will be hit the hardest by these changes will be located closer to the expanding tropics and semi-arid zones north and south of the equator.
|
|
The study, published in the online journal PLOS Medicine, looked at 20 countries on four continents and found the rise in mortality was likely to be highest near the equator.
|
|
A parachute and retro-rocket thrusters will work to slow it down sufficiently for a three-legged, soft landing on the Elysium Planitia — a flat region near the planet's equator.
|
|
Called the SBSP System, the Japanese orbital farm would run in a stationary orbit about 22,28 miles above the equator, where it would transmit energy to Earth using laser beams.
|
|
This means that Pluto's arctic zone is very active, sometimes extending near the equator depending on the time of year (a year on Pluto is equal to 249 Earth years).
|
|
The new study only found these high sublimation rates occurring in a narrow band around the equator, but areas closer to the poles don't seem to have the same conditions.
|
|
During Juno's next flyby on July 11, the spacecraft will pass directly over the planet's Great Red Spot, a massive storm south of the equator that has existed for centuries.
|
|
For such a massive planet—spanning roughly 15,882 miles at its equator—Uranus remains overlooked and under-appreciated, which is why now's the perfect time to take a trip back.
|
|
Pregnant women, their babies at high risk After first being detected in 1947 in a monkey in Uganda, Zika was most often found along the equator from Africa into Asia.
|
|
In the short video above, MinuteEarth explains null by taking us to Null Island, a non-place located at 0°N 0°E, where the Prime Meridian hits the equator.
|
|
These snow-covered peaks are in the Cthulhu range, which stretches halfway around the dwarf planet's equator at more than 1,800 miles -- a bit larger than the state of Alaska.
|
|
Today, utility power generation is regional, if not local, but electricity generated in space and near the equator could be beamed almost anywhere across the globe, except for the poles.
|
|
The meter, once a ten-millionth of the distance from Equator to North Pole, is now the length travelled by light in 1/299,792,458th of a second inside a vacuum.
|
|
But because it lies along the Equator, Colombia has more days that naturally follow the 12-hour pattern than countries that are farther north, like the United States and Canada.
|
|
"One of the things I've studied was that the populations that have no indices of heart disease or cancer — unless they've been Westernized — are all around the Equator," he says.
|
|
The works use elevation data from the Valles Marineris, a series of canyons along the equator of Mars, as well as from Argyre, an impact basin in the Southern Highlands.
|
|
"InSight has solar power, so it needs to be near the equator so it has enough power to last throughout the year as the seasons change," Golombek told VICE News.
|
|
The other countries that straddle the Equator are Sao Tome and Principe, Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Maldives, Indonesia, Kiribati, Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil.
|
|
Why is it that commercial flight paths in the southern hemisphere curve upwards, towards the equator, when it would make so much more sense to fly over the Antarctic Ocean?
|
|
But the man from Spirit Cave also turned out to have a close genetic link to 4003,2400-year-old skeletons found in Brazil, on the other side of the Equator.
|
|
The strength of ultraviolet radiation is generally measured by UV index and is higher in the United States closer to the equator, including Southern states, California and Hawaii, researchers said.
|
|
Experts said it's difficult to establish exactly where the space lab will fall, but it's expected to descend within a latitude of 43 degrees north and south of the equator.
|
|
The island state of just 200,000, located south of the equator and half way between Hawaii and New Zealand, declared a measles epidemic late in October after the first deaths.
|
|
During that time, the North Hemisphere experiences the winter solstice, or the shortest day of the year, while those living south of the equator experience the longest day of the year.
|
|
The black hole acts like a massive conductor spinning in a huge magnetic field, which will cause an energy difference (voltage) between the poles of the black hole and its equator.
|
|
The two places are thousands of miles apart, separated by the vast Pacific Ocean and a half-world of latitude, with Shishmaref near the Arctic Circle and Kiribati near the equator.
|
|
There aren't many options on Earth for launching that close to the equator, and the site would make it much easier for satellite operators to send payloads into an equatorial orbit.
|
|
And being close to the equator, the company could use Earth's rotational momentum to save a little fuel and provide extra assurance that a satellite or other payload would reach orbit.
|
|
Spiga and his colleagues studied some of these clouds near the planet's equator using data from two spacecraft in orbit around Mars: the Mars Global Surveyor and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
|
|
How the beach went from terrifying danger zone to beloved vacation spot And as Van Lange and his colleagues argue, there's a "general trend" between proximity to the equator and violence.
|
|
When Voyager 22, which is headed northward from the solar equator, crossed the heliosheath between 23 to 22, it witnessed a steady increase high-energy particles, called galactic cosmic rays (GCRs).
|
|
Tier one contains the 211 rugby nations that compete in the two top international rugby tournaments: the Six Nations Championships in the Northern Hemisphere, and the Rugby Championship below the equator.
|
|
Basically, countries closer to the North and South poles will look much larger and distorted on a map than countries closer to the Equator (which will look smaller and scrunched up).
|
|
The GSLV-Mk III's maiden voyage brought its satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit above Earth's equator—a high Earth orbit that allows a satellite to sync up with Earth's rotation.
|
|
It's not her fault she's like that, though, because who can escape that hot Latin blood pumping through their veins that's cultivated in far-off, exotic lands south of the Equator?
|
|
The winds and currents responsible for that transfer are diverted from the direct equator-to-pole trajectory that you might expect by the Coriolis effect, which swings them to the east.
|
|
To get into these kinds of orbits, Virgin Orbit may want to launch from a popular place like Florida so that it can fly east over open ocean near the equator.
|
|
On Monday, November 26th, it will attempt its eighth, when it endeavors to land the $830-million InSight spacecraft on Elysium Planitia, a vast plain just north of the Martian equator.
|
|
Perhaps, though, dinosaurs would simply be too well-poised for adaptive radiation, mammals would not radiate, and there would be lean tyrannosaurs on the equator and wooly tyrannosaurs at the poles.
|
|
So, we&aposre at the equator in order to bring you our comprehensive coverage that nobody else in the media frankly will give you, instead of getting stuck on that flight.
|
|
Experts said that while powerful currents sweeping the Indian Ocean could deposit debris thousands of kilometres away, wreckage was extremely unlikely to have drifted across the equator into the northern hemisphere.
|
|
An old rocket complex near Brazil's Atlantic coast, called Alcantara, sits about 140 miles south of the Earth's equator, making it a prime location for launching satellites, a $260 billion business.
|
|
Experts said that while powerful currents sweeping the Indian Ocean could deposit debris thousands of kilometers away, wreckage was extremely unlikely to have drifted across the equator into the northern hemisphere.
|
|
This mass was so huge, that is caused the planet's mantle and crust to swivel around, changing the position of the planet's poles and moving Tharsis dome onto the planet's equator.
|
|
More modern measurements of the Southern Oscillation are usually taken by comparing sea level pressures over an area of Indonesia straddling the equator with one in the eastern Pacific (tmsnrt.rs/2cOBVc5).
|
|
During this close pass, the vehicle will first fly over the north pole and then swoop in close over Jupiter's equator — squeezing in between the radiation belts and the planet's surface.
|
|
For the world's estimated 25 million coffee farmers, many of whom run small farms, moving their operations away from the equator or to higher elevations will be difficult if not impossible.
|
|
The World Health Organization (WHO) and a nongovernmental organization that delivers vaccines, Gavi, said Monday that more than 6900,2628 doses of a new vaccine had been deployed to the Equator Province.
|
|
The World Health Organization (WHO) and a nongovernmental organization that delivers vaccines, Gavi, said Monday that more than 7,85033 doses of a new vaccine had been deployed to the Equator Province.
|
|
Last year, in an experiment, one of the Saildrone boats made its way from Alameda to the Equator in 42 days, collecting a wealth of ocean surface data along the way.
|
|
Its shape, like a top, fatter around the Equator as it spins around in 4.3 hours, also suggests that the stuff of Bennu is not solid rock but shifts and slides.
|
|
When the sun crosses the Equator during equinoxes in September and March, the gravitational and lunar conditions bolster tidal bores as the flow of other rivers around the Amazon is reversed.
|
|
As noted in the new study, these surface features are primarily located near the centers of Titan's northern and southern hemispheres but slightly closer to the poles than to the equator.
|
|
Organized by the Equator Initiative within the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Prize honors outstanding indigenous and local community initiatives from 12 countries that are demonstrating and exemplifying sustainable development.
|
|
In the past, hulking telecommunications satellites hovered 2000,21 miles above the Equator in what is known as a geosynchronous orbit, where a satellite continuously remains over the same spot on Earth.
|
|
EDRS-C will be the second spacecraft in the so-called SpaceDataHighway, a planned constellation of satellites positioned over the equator that can connect with lower altitude satellites, drones, and aircraft.
|
|
She reasoned that its wealth would be concentrated in an urban center near the equator, at a geological spot that seemed stable, based on fault lines that she had sketched out.
|
|
It's also destabilizing the jet stream, the loop created when cold air from the Arctic sinks down to the equator, where it warms up and moves back north to the Arctic.
|
|
Additionally, locations in the U.K. are located much further north of the equator than most of the world's launchpads, offering a unique ability to reach orbits commonly used by small satellites.
|
|
This explains why the signals were within the satellite's frequencies and only appeared and persisted in Ross 128; the star is close to the celestial equator where many geostationary satellites are placed.
|
|
On the other hand, there is a peak in the vicinity of the equator and a number of large craters, which makes the selection of the landing points both interesting and difficult.
|
|
The larger US rocket companies, such as SpaceX, the United Launch Alliance, and Blue Origin, already have multiple options for launching out of the US that are relatively close to the equator.
|
|
If you want to try to spot the special aurora in person, NASA has a some tips for you: STEVE appears closer to the equator than where normal — often green — auroras appear.
|
|
Simone Tilmes at the US National Centre for Atmospheric Research calculates that injections of SO2 at 15° and 30° north and south of the equator would produce a reasonably uniform global cooling.
|
|
Situated only a few hundred miles from the Equator, and with most of the area's trees long ago chopped down for firewood or to make charcoal, there's little escape from the sun.
|
|
In about three years, it will settle into an orbit that takes it outside of the plane of our solar system, circling the sun at an angle 24 degrees above its equator.
|
|
Although Fani is tracking toward the northeast, along India's coast toward Kolkata and Bangladesh, the storm is also pushing a surge of moisture-laden air from near the equator toward the Himalayas.
|
|
In its 15 years on Mars, Oppy drove 45.16 kilometers (28.06 miles) across the Meridiani Planum region near the planet's equator, by far the longest distance of any off-Earth terrain vehicle.
|
|
There is a return flow of warm water eastwards across the Pacific on countercurrents to the north and south of the equator and also on an equatorial undercurrent deeper in the ocean.
|
|
Moving south of the equator, the booth at Galeria Marilia Razuk featured the works of Brazilian artist Ana Luiza Dias Bastista, revolving around collected keys, traditional games, and Brazilian culture-at-large.
|
|
The melting that scientists saw in 2016 was likely caused by a super strong El Niño, a climate cycle when Pacific Ocean surface water warms up to unusual temperatures around the Equator.
|
|
And the open ocean is a good place to recalibrate the satellites, too, because the convergence zone around the equator sends up pretty much every type of atmospheric condition you can imagine.
|
|
Locations under consideration in the U.K. are located much further north of the equator than most of the world's launchpads, offering a unique ability to reach orbits commonly used by small satellites.
|
|
Such a rotation means that when it runs out of fuel and begins to explode as a supernova, it will collapse at the poles before the equator, producing a gamma-ray burst.
|
|
A section of Enceladus in the "smooth plains" region slightly north of the equator on the Saturn-facing side as seen on February 17, 2005 at 410 feet (9303 meters) per pixel.
|
|
The Equator Collection, the company that purchased the raccoon-infested yacht for $0, is a fund that aims to preserve "maritime assets that are significant to the history of the United States."
|
|
Their next clue came when Dr. Bertaux's colleagues, who were studying water vapor trapped in clouds, noticed a particularly damp area about three miles above the Equator, near the Aphrodite Terra region.
|
|
Regions near the Equator reflect just 8 percent of the sunlight, while places in Sputnik Planitia, the western half of the heart-shape feature on Pluto, are as bright as fresh snow.
|
|
The island state of just 200,000, located south of the equator and half way between Hawaii and New Zealand, declared a measles epidemic late in October after the first deaths were reported.
|
|
Hawaii's choice against observing daylight saving time causes less disruption than Arizona's given that it is isolated from other states and near the Equator, where the sunrises and sunsets don't vary much.
|
|
Yet some of that effect may be tempered by the dry air spreading west across the equator from the Sahara Desert, an atmospheric condition which has also been linked to climate change.
|
|
Founded by a duo of PhDs and a data scientist who worked at a company developing an anti-aging drug, Equator Therapeutics is targeting people dealing with obesity and type 2 diabetes.
|
|
They can only grow within a narrow strip of rainforested land roughly 20 degrees north and south of the equator, where temperature, rain, and humidity all stay relatively constant throughout the year.
|
|
American is also suspending routes south of the equator with Buenos Aires, Argentina; Santiago, Chile; and Sao Paulo, Brazil experiencing route suspensions until as early as May and as late as October.
|
|
The site was chosen, in part, because InSight will be running on solar power, and it needed to be near the equator to get enough sunlight to stay powered for two years.
|
|
The ice shell was thin in a spot near the equator that's about the size of Texas, known as Sputnik Planitia, which helped researchers notice Pluto's odd topography and suggest the ocean's existence.
|
|
Florida has the second-highest rate of melanoma in the country, the CDC said, largely due to its proximity to the equator, where UV rays are strongest, and year-round, beach friendly weather.
|
|
At a broader scale, the large-scale flow of air around the tropics is known as the "General Atmospheric Circulation," and includes a wide zone of rising air centered close to the equator.
|
|
The denouement is especially laboured, with an "active shooter" hostage situation livestreamed on smartphones, in an Equator fulfilment centre, involving a CEO and an aggrieved truck driver whose job is threatened by automation.
|
|
More recently, working closely with the Equator Initiative of the United Nations Development Programme, Baldwin has become a strong advocate for the protection of forests and indigenous peoples' rights to combat climate change.
|
|
The same is true in many developing regions near the equator, and when combined with poor perception of exercise and lack of awareness of its importance for health, the impact is more significant.
|
|
The pressure swing was historically measured at observatories located at Darwin in Australia and Tahiti in the Pacific, both slightly south of the equator, but chosen for convenience because they are on land.
|
|
"We are closer to the equator and have an excellent site for launching microsatellites," said Brigadier Luiz Fernando Aguiar, coordinator of the Brazilian Air Force's space program, comparing the Alcantara site with Kourou.
|
|
Each time, the Equator or one of the other vessels has sent down an unmanned, remotely operated device to examine the wreckage with very high-resolution sonar and sometimes with cameras as well.
|
|
Hawaii and Arizona ignore DST, since it makes less sense to shift the clocks when you live near the equator, where the sun rises and sets at roughly the same time every day.
|
|
The Martian moon Phobos's orbit is nearly directly over its equator; our moon, on the other hand, is in a tilted orbit, so the Earth, sun, and moon don't line up as often.
|
|
A fascinating landing site Originally deemed a flat parking lot by NASA scientists, InSight's landing site along the Martian equator is more interesting than previously believed based on ten months of studying it.
|
|
If all goes well, a heat shield, parachutes and a rocket engine will slow InSight to a safe landing in a flat plain just north of the Martian Equator known as Elysium Planitia.
|
|
Their free continental breakfast and wine & cheese reception are nice perks that help add value to the higher price, and rooms are stocked with local "Equator" Coffee and local provisions in the minibar.
|
|
Instead, superbolts mostly occurred over the Eastern North Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the Andes, with regions of strong activity in and around Japan and along the equator in the Atlantic and Indian oceans.
|
|
Scientists had previously known that wind coming from the sun&aposs poles moves faster, but this was the first time they detected an origin point for the slow wind coming from its equator.
|
|
Despite a deal with Washington for the United States to safeguard U.S. space technology at Brazil's Alcantara launch site near the equator, China could also become a partner at the base, he said.
|
|
These satellites would be in a geosynchronous orbit, meaning that they are far enough away and moving at a velocity such that they are always above the same fixed point on the Earth's equator.
|
|
Because the circle has reflectional symmetry, you can flip those points over the equator (changing the signs of all the y coordinates), and suddenly you've got all the points in the northern half too.
|
|
In 1894 Percival Lowell – the American astronomer who founded Arizona's famous Lowell Observatory – published elaborate drawings of the alleged canals, which he claimed Martians built to route water from the poles to the equator.
|
|
Back then, he worked for Sea Launch, a company that put Russian and Ukrainian rockets on Norwegian ships, sent the ships sailing toward the equator, and launched satellites from the middle of the ocean.
|
|
An El Niño event, featuring unusually warm water in the tropical Pacific Ocean along with an increase in shower and thunderstorm activity near the equator, is helping to add additional heat to the atmosphere.
|
|
Jupiter, the fifth planet from the sun, dwarfs the solar system's other planets, measuring about 89,000 miles (143,000 km) in diameter at its equator, compared with Earth's diameter of about 8,000 miles (12,750 km).
|
|
Opportunity's landing on Meridiani Planum, a little south of the Martian equator, had not been a particularly precise affair—it could have come down anywhere in an ellipse some 22012km long and 210km wide.
|
|
Opportunity's landing on Meridiani Planum, a little south of the Martian equator, had not been a particularly precise affair—it could have come down anywhere in an ellipse some 210km long and 22018km wide.
|
|
During that minute, the sun crosses the Earth's equator from the Northern Hemisphere into the Southern Hemisphere and day and night last the exact same amount of time — 12 hours — everywhere across the world.
|
|
"This would give us precious insights into the past distribution of water on the planet, and thus if any amount of liquid water existed near the equator that could have supported life," said Nerozzi.
|
|
I'll cross the equator, and dawn will come to me as I parallel the Skeleton Coast of Namibia, and finally I'll see Table Mountain in the distance as I descend to the Mother City.
|
|
Though the atoll sits just north of the Equator, trade winds suck water up from the depths of the ocean, usually keeping the water temperature surrounding the reefs a healthy, nearly constant 78 degrees.
|
|
Word of the Day : either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator _________ The word solstice has appeared in 58 articles on nytimes.
|
|
Because of its location on the equator, Mount Chimborazo is 7,000 feet higher in the sky than Mount Everest, and the Ecuadorian mountain's summit is the farthest from Earth's core than any other mountain.
|
|
Because areas closer to the Equator tend to have a greater incidence of disease, both European migrants and permanent residents had in effect spread from a deeply infectious environment to a relatively benign one.
|
|
It&aposs something I kept thinking about after I moved to the southernmost city in New Zealand in 2015 — which is closer to Antarctica than the Equator — for a job at the local newspaper.
|
|