... A spherical meteorite of radius 3m enters the Earth's atmosphere at an altitude of 100km and a speed (relative to the Earth) of 30 km/s. The atmosphere slows it down, so when it hits the Earth's surface it is travelling at only 1 km/s. If half of the heat ...

... is distorted by the instrumental polarization, the Earth's atmosphere and the interstellar medium, the Stokes vector we measure ...

... interaction between jet engine exhausts and the Earth's upper atmosphere, atmospheric optical phenomena during re-entry of ... propulsion system exhaust products during undocking maneuvers, retroburns and re-entry into the Earth's upper atmosphere ...

... ray observations free from the Earth's atmosphere, which absorbs X-rays, and the Van ... holes" Frank believes are created by small comets impacting the Earth's atmosphere ...

... sees in visible light began orbiting above Earth's distorting atmosphere, which blurs starlight and makes images appear fuzzy ...

... The telescope consists of a number of separate hexagonal segments and is designed to observe the Earth's atmosphere. ... Let us consider a telescope designed to observe processes in the Earth's atmosphere. ...

... emitting molecules in the Earth's atmosphere, e.g. water vapour, Nitric Oxides ... wavelengths, except in a few "windows" where the Earth's atmosphere is transparent ...

... returning from a lunar voyage faced a much more difficult injection into the Earth's atmosphere than did one in Earth orbit ...

... CARBON DIOXIDE (CO 2 ): A gas found in Earth's atmosphere in small amounts, unlike Mars and Venus. ... Probably for a long time carbon dioxide was the dominant active gas in the early Earth's atmosphere. ...

... A hypothesis is suggested that there are certain zones through which solar activity controls the entire Earth's atmosphere. ...