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Atmospheric Phenomena
Zodiacal Light
The glow in the ecliptic plane caused by the reflection of sunlight from dust.
Atmospheric phenomena such as halos were used as an empirical means of weather forecasting before meteorology was developed.
Atmospheric phenomena on this scale cannot be reproduced, even by nuclear fusion explosions, and have never before been observed.
Transient atmospheric phenomena. Several phenomena occur in the atmosphere that greatly affect the appearance of the surface of Mars. These include the formation of atmospheric hazes and fogs as well as dust storms.
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Weather and Atmospheric Phenomena
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air sounding (NASA SP-7, 1965) The act of measuring atmospheric phenomena or determining atmospheric conditions at altitude, especially by means of apparatus carried by balloons or rockets. See sounding.
1577 - Tycho Brahe uses parallax to prove that comets are distant entities and not atmospheric phenomena
1609 - Johannes Kepler states his first two empirical laws of planetary motion ...
METEOR (Gr. perEwpa, literally " things in the air," from yerb., beyond, and a€ipav, to lift up), a term originally applied by the ancient Greeks to many atmospheric phenomena - rainbows, halos, shooting stars, &c.
Appearances of large comets were regarded as atmospheric phenomena until 1577, when the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe proved that they were celestial bodies.
Mesoscale meteorology is the study of atmospheric phenomena that has horizontal scales ranging from microscale limits to synoptic scale limits and a vertical scale that starts at the Earth's surface and includes the atmospheric boundary layer, ...
Table of Contents: Mars Article Basic astronomical data Early telescopic observations Mars as seen from Earth Surface features Polar regions Transient atmospheric phenomena The atmosphere Basic atmospheric data Composition and surface pressure ...
Church dogma of the times forbade any changes to the perfect celestial sphere, so anything that was new must be atmospheric phenomena. However, Tycho reasoned that if it were atmospheric, then it would display a parallax, which it did not.
This contradicted the teachings of Aristotle, who had held that comets were atmospheric phenomena ("gases burning in the atmosphere" was a common explanation among Aristotelians).
The late Chick Capen was especially fond of writing about the Martian weather and how to observe Martian atmospheric phenomena.
Now that Cassini's mission lifetime has been extended through to May 2017, scientists will be able to observe Titan from mid-winter to mid-summer in the northern hemisphere. Long-term monitoring of clouds and atmospheric phenomena is crucial for ...
Scientists speculate that these white spots represent long-lived weather systems on Saturn and hope that routine observations of such temporary atmospheric phenomena on the outer worlds will enable them to gain greater insight into the dynamics of ...
 See also: Earth, Atmosphere, Light, Solar, Sun
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