images of the earth at night

... so Then the Professor took the book and the parchment, and diligentlycompared them together Trang 3"These two writings are not by the same hand," he said; "the cipheris of later date ... reveal their sense Only think that under this jargon there maylie concealed the clue to some great discovery!" As for me, I was of opinion that there was nothing at all, in it;though, of course, ... 1JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH JULES VERNE CHAPTER 3 THE RUNIC WRITING EXERCISES THE PROFESSOR "Undoubtedly it is Runic," said the Professor, bending his brows;"but there is a

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... and the radius of the earth being fifteen hundredleagues, there must be a temperature of 360,032 degrees at the centreof the earth Therefore, all the substances that compose the body ofthis earth ... several craters It was therefore necessaryto point out which of these leads to the centre of the globe Whatdid the Icelandic sage do? He observed that at the approach of thekalends of July, that is ... "All the theories of science demonstrate such a feat to beimpracticable." "The theories say that, do they?" replied the Professor in the toneof a meek disciple "Oh! unpleasant theories!

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... if there was not air enough in all the streets of Hamburg to putme right again. I therefore made for the banks of the Elbe, where thesteamer lands her passengers, which forms the communication ... forms the communication betweenthe city and the Hamburg railway. Was I convinced of the truth of what I had heard? Had I not bentunder the iron rule of the Professor Liedenbrock? Was I to ... in his intention to penetrate to the centre of thismassive globe? Had I been listening to the mad speculations of alunatic, or to the scientific conclusions of a lofty genius? Wheredid truth

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... amongst otherson the internal surface of the gallery of the dome of St Paul's inLondon, and especially in the midst of the curious caverns among thequarries near Syracuse, the most wonderful of which ... concave form of the gallery and the conducting powerof the rock There are many examples of this propagation of soundswhich remain unheard in the intermediate space I remember that asimilar phenomenon ... Trang 1JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH JULES VERNE CHAPTER 28 THE RESCUE IN THE WHISPERING GALLERY When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears How longthat state of insensibility

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... be enough for the march of the humblest of satellites Then I remembered the theory of an English captain, who likened the earth to a vast hollow sphere, in the interior of which the air became ... but there was a cloud hanging far above, the height of which we estimated at12,000 feet, a greater height than that of any terrestrial vapour ,and no doubt due to the great density of the air The ... theory to account forthe existence of such an excavation Had the cooling of the globeproduced it? I knew of celebrated caverns from the descriptions oftravellers, but had never heard of any of

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... early fall the circulating warm water of the North Atlantic gyre feeds the surface waters of the tropi-cal North Atlantic Warm water heats the overlying air, and some of the water evaporates, releasing ... one-third of Earth’s surface—more than 16 timesthe area of the 50 U.S states The Pacific Ocean stretchesfrom the Arctic Ocean boundary near the North Pole to theSouthern Ocean at the opposite pole At ... mountain range became the Atlantic The Atlantic Ocean, at about nine times the size of the 50U.S states, is the second largest of the five oceans It sepa-rates Europe and Africa from the Americas For

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... in others,causes the atmosphere to circulate over the planet’s surface.The Tropics (that part of Earth’s surface lying between thetropic of Cancer in the Northern Hemisphere and the tropic ofCapricorn ... day Cli-mate (investigated by climatologists) is the average pattern ofweather in a region over many years Compared with the dimensions of Earth, the atmosphere is very thin If an inflated party ... center of a gyre there is little movement of surface water, and this calm region of the sea can be a strange place where floating objects gather In the center of the North Atlantic gyre lies the

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... the oceans The concentration of chemicals in the body fluids of living organisms is much closer to that of sea-water than freshsea-water, suggesting a seasea-water origin Third, for most of Earth’s ... 7early life Nevertheless, it is undoubtedly true that for most ofEarth’s history the great majority of life-forms evolved in theoceans.The procession of life The earliest of Earth’s organisms ... by the natural selection of its members This process, given enough time, can lead to the formation of populations ofthe same original species that are now reproductively isolatedfrom one another

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... full-strength seawater A small population of the American crocodile lives in brackish water (seawater mixed with fresh-water) at the southern edge of the Florida Everglades and in parts of the Gulf of Mexico ... they have an insulating layer of fat beneath the skin and dense, waterproof, oil-tippedfeathers that trap a layer of warm air close to the skin Petrels, shearwaters, and albatrosses are called ... fish Frigate birds—the males with scarlet cheststhat they inflate like balloons in the breeding season to woofemales—snatch items from the beaks of other seabirds orharass them so that they spit

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... underlyingsurface—hard or soft, and if soft, the size of particles—is amajor factor that determines the nature of the subtidal com-munity Because of the high levels of sediment that settle outin shallow water, many ... NorthAmerica In the northern autumn they fly south, crossing theequator, to arrive at feeding grounds in the Southern Oceanand the far south of the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans.Their arrival, ... direction of the four points of the compass (north, south, east, west) In the Northern Hemi-sphere the North Star (Polaris) shows north In the Southern Hemisphere the cluster of stars called the Southern

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... includingimmature fish These unwanted fishes are called bycatch Unfortunately, by the time theyare hauled aboard the ship and separated from the wanted catch, the fishes in thebycatch are usually dead Often ... scientists check the source of the coloration by taking water samples from boats, but as sci-entists gather more data, they are more confident about what causes the different color tones Satellite remote ... desalination(desalting) plants use the Sun’s energy to heat seawater Thewater evaporates leaving most of the salt behind The watervapor is then condensed to an almost salt-free liquid Moresophisticated

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... Even then, they are not always successful Despite efforts of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT) to limit catches of tuna, by the late 199 0s the ... to other destinations. Many of these alien species die off at their new destinations. Some live more or less harmo- niously with the creatures they meet in their new habitat. 210 OCEANS THE HEALTH ... study of the fossil record of the Great Barrier Reef region showed that [...]... generations To turn these treaties into practical action there needs to be the political will to do so However, at

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... plankton that photosyn-thesize plankton organisms that float freely in the ocean at the mercy of currents They swim weakly, if at all plate (tectonic or lithospheric plate) a segment of Earth’s ... deep scattering layers E Earth See also crust amount of water on 1formation of 30magnetic field of 35, 130movement of plates of 34–38, 37, 45, 173 rotation of 71–73, 72, 82–83 structure of 30–32, ... salinity a measure of the saltiness of water Most seawater has a salinity close to 35, or 35 grams of dissolved salts in 1,000 grams of seawater satellite remote sensing the use of satellites to detect

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... correlate the first Lunik 3 pictures of the far side He was also at NASA for the lunar mapping prior to the Apollo missions Chris Lintott, the co-star of the latest episodes of The Sky at Night, ... out over the past five decades The Sky at Night has always been at the sharp end of science broadcasting, whether it’s showing the first view from the far side of the Moon or pictures of a new ... Fellow of the Royal Society As the presenter of the record-breaking The Sky at Night series, Patrick was awarded a BAFTA in 2000 The most important research Patrick has carried out has been about the

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... plus silicates. The collision shed new light on cratering, particularly with the pristine material of the interior. Comets are incredibly ancient; they date back to the origin of the Solar ... have come from the satellites The. .. provided new data about the make up of the rock, and at the end of its career was successfully crashed into a southern lava-plain, the Lacus Excellentiae, ... anything of the sort Right out to the depths of the universe, visible material is composed of the familiar elements, and life must be made up of these Finally, there remains the possibility

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... so that it could contain the whole of the Earth’s orbit However, the data for Eta Carinae, the erratic variable in the southern hemisphere of the sky, are more reliable The luminosity is at least ... certainly the telescope is out of focus This being so, it takes an effort of the imagina-tion to appreciate that some of the stars are huge enough to contain the whole orbit of the Earth round the ... though it is true that the track of totality on 30 June 1954 just grazed the tip of the northernmost of the Shetland Isles (I do not believe that anyone actually saw it from there) The next British

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... though there is a hot, presumably silicate core, the overall density of the globe is less than that of water It is often said that if you could drop Saturn into an ocean, it would float – but ... laws In the Solar System the centre of motion is the Sun, which also contains over 99% of the mass Kepler’s Laws state that planets closest to the Sun must move the fastest, and the furthest must ... the answer In a galaxy, the mass is not concentrated at the centre, but is spread through the entire system This explains why the stars behave in the way that they do, but what precisely is the

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... is the satellite of Pluto (the excuse here, that the centre of gravity of the Pluto-Charon system lies between the two bodies, was surely irrelevant; after all, the centre of gravity of the ... 957 , as he was then at P Moore, The Sky at Night, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-6409-0_19,... right through the Sun, and the inner regions of the Sun rotate in the way that a solid sphere ... others believed that there were electrical storms in the upper atmosphere, similar in nature to our aurorae but much stronger. Of course, the “Earthshine” on the non-sunlit side of the Moon is familiar

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... create the oceans, rain, erosion O condensed to create the oceans, rain, erosion and tides began “weathering” the Earth s surface.) and tides began “weathering” the Earth s surface.) Carbonate ... people on the atmosphere was about to become The impact of people on the atmosphere was about to become noticeable! noticeable! Evolution of the Earth Evolution of the Earth and its Atmosphere ... ultraviolet radiation and high levels of methane. ultraviolet radiation and high levels of methane. Evolution of the Earth Evolution of the Earth and its Atmosphere and its Atmosphere ...

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... signs of volcanic action. The Icelandic buts are made of earth and turf, and the walls slope inward; they rather resemble roofs placed on the ground. But then these roofs are meadows of com- parative ... winds it was manifest that the red tiles of the roof would be scattered in the air, to the great danger of the faithful worshippers. On a neighbouring hill I perceived the national school, where, ... bed of lava bounds it on one side, and falls gently towards the sea. On the other extends the vast bay of Faxa, shut in at the north by the enormous glacier of the Snæfell, and of which the Valkyria...

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