Newcomen's engine appears to have been based on Papin's experiments carried out 30 years earlier, and employed a piston and cylinder, one end of which was open to the atmosphere above the piston.

Ultimately, the narrator is incinerated as he falls through Earth's atmosphere and appears as a shooting star to a child in Illinois.

It demonstrates that a pattern emerges to mirror that of the ocean-the tropics do not continue to get warmer because the atmosphere transports warm air poleward and cold air equatorward, the purpose of which appears to be that of heat and moisture distribution around the planet.

It may be noted that in a paper on the proportion of the gases or elastic fluids constituting the atmosphere, read by him in November 1802, the law of multiple proportions appears to be anticipated in the words: " The elements of oxygen may combine with a certain portion of nitrous gas or with twice that portion, but with no intermediate quantity ", but there is reason to suspect that this sentence may have been added some time after the reading of the paper, which was not published until 1805.

A thin layer of water clouds appears to underlie the ammonia layer within Jupiter's atmosphere, where thunderstorms evidenced by flashes of lightning have been detected.

The second movement has a mysterious sounding introduction that creates an atmosphere of impending excitement, followed by a passage dominated by two harps, then the flowing waltz theme appears, derived from the idée fixe at first, and then transforming it.

Species 8472 can also survive the unprotected rigors of normal space, and appears to not need to breathe an atmosphere, or even the organic fluid present in its own realm.

As the amount of atmosphere nears infinity, the scattered light appears more and more white.

The troposphere ends abruptly at the tropopause, which appears in the image as the sharp boundary between the orange-and blue-coloured atmosphere.

Prince first appears in the third season premiere, when he and some of his cohorts board the Lexx as it passes through the atmosphere of Fire.

Our own Sun is in fact white, but appears yellow through the Earth's atmosphere due to Rayleigh scattering.

A variation of this technique that appears to be currently possible is to have the tip speed of the cable lower than the orbital speed and use hypersonic aircraft to catch the tip while it is in the upper atmosphere.

For terrestrial planets, the simultaneous presence of O < sub > 3 </ sub >, H < sub > 2 </ sub > O and CO < sub > 2 </ sub > in the atmosphere appears to be a reliable biosignature, and the Darwin spacecraft would have been capable of detecting these atmospheric components.

* When the Enterprise begins to fall into the planet's atmosphere, a fiery glow appears on the view screen from the reentry.

The shuttle now appears to burn up in the atmosphere upon re-entry.

Although airglow emission is fairly uniform across the atmosphere, to an observer on the ground it appears brightest at about 10 degrees above the horizon, because the lower one looks the greater the depth of atmosphere one is looking through.

A popular belief, stretching back at least to Aristotle in the 4th century B. C., holds that the Moon appears larger near the horizon due to a real magnification effect caused by the Earth's atmosphere.

Newcomen's engine appears to have been based on Papin's experiments carried out 30 years earlier, and employed a piston and cylinder, one end of which was open to the atmosphere above the piston.

Therefore when it appears that the full disc of the sun is just above the horizon, if it weren't for the atmosphere, no part of the sun's disc would be visible.

Gethen appears to have a surface gravity more or less similar to Earth and a human-compatible atmosphere ( the Earth envoy sent there shows no sign of discomfort ).

His wife, Ellen ( Beverly D ' Angelo ), and teenage daughter, Audrey ( Marisol Nichols ) have their doubts, as Las Vegas is not known for its family-friendly atmosphere, while teenage son Rusty ( Ethan Embry ) appears to be more eager, even asking if prostitution is legal there.

but both groups were so closely knit that despite individual differences the family life in both cases was remarkably similar in atmosphere if not entirely in content -- the one being definitely Jewish and the other vaguely Christian.

and the atmosphere is so befouled that no one dares walk in the open without respirators or soot plugs.

Beneficial re-use of magnesium carbonate from this process could provide feedstock for new products developed for the built environment and agriculture without returning the carbon into the atmosphere and so acting as a carbon sink.

Diffusion pumps cannot discharge directly into the atmosphere, so a mechanical forepump is typically used to maintain an outlet pressure around 0. 1 mbar.

The door is used to control the physical atmosphere within a space by enclosing the air drafts, so that interiors may be more effectively heated or cooled.

A flame is extinguished at about 17 % oxygen content, air which will still support life, so the lamp gave an early indication of an unhealthy atmosphere.

Finally, at radio wavelengths longer than 10 meters or so ( about 30 MHz ), the air in the lower atmosphere remains transparent to radio, but plasma in certain layers of the ionosphere of upper Earth atmosphere begins to interact with radio waves ( see skywave ).

Much as in a sunset, the atmosphere tends to more strongly scatter light with shorter wavelengths, so the illumination of the Moon by refracted light has a red hue, thus the phrase ' Blood Moon ' is often found in descriptions of such lunar events as far back as eclipses are recorded.

In turn, zinc hydroxide reacts with carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to yield a thin, impermeable, tenacious and quite insoluble dull gray layer of zinc carbonate which adheres extremely well to the underlying zinc, so protecting it from further corrosion.

At heights of above, in the thermosphere, the atmosphere is so thin that free electrons can exist for short periods of time before they are captured by a nearby positive ion.

Above 300 GHz, the absorption of electromagnetic radiation by Earth's atmosphere is so great that it is in effect opaque, until the atmosphere becomes transparent again in the so-called infrared and optical window frequency ranges.

** In the Star Trek: Enterprise episodes " Demons " and " Terra Prime " ( both 2005 ) it is revealed that Mars is in the process of being terraformed by use of the Verteron array which redirects comets to crashland on the planet's surface ; by 2155 the atmosphere had been sufficiently altered so that, in the lowlands, Humans could breathe the air unassisted, though temperatures were still cold enough to require thermal gear.

The liquid water was heated to induce evaporation, sparks were fired between the electrodes to simulate lightning through the atmosphere and water vapor, and then the atmosphere was cooled again so that the water could condense and trickle back into the first flask in a continuous cycle.

The particles were never observed to rise above 6 km and when combined with scavenging by clouds gave the smoke a short residency time in the atmosphere and localized its effects ; Professor Carl Sagan of the Turco, Toon, Ackerman, Pollack, Sagan ( TTAPS ) study hypothesized in January 1991 that enough smoke from the fires " might get so high as to disrupt agriculture in much of South Asia ...." Sagan later conceded in his book The Demon-Haunted World that this prediction did not turn out to be correct: " it was pitch black at noon and temperatures dropped 4 °– 6 ° C over the Persian Gulf, but not much smoke reached stratospheric altitudes and Asia was spared.

The amount of debris remaining in the atmosphere after the explosion of even the largest nuclear weapons is probably not more than about 1 percent or so of that raised by the Krakatoa eruption.

Recent studies show that that can also be survived-easiest if the impactor is larger or the planet has less gravity or less atmosphere ( so easier for Mars than Earth for instance ).

Most of the other soldiers are captured or killed almost as soon as they enter the planet's atmosphere as evidenced in the game's intro, so it falls upon Bitterman to penetrate the Strogg capital city alone and ultimately to assassinate the Strogg leader, the Makron.

Even so, it is obvious that Watson has stricter limits than Holmes, and occasionally berated Holmes for creating a " poisonous atmosphere " of tobacco smoke.

It is possible that the early atmosphere on Earth was more sensitive to changes in solar radiation than today, so that greater glacial melting ( and thicker sediment deposits ) could have occurred during years with greater sunspot activity.

However, its atmosphere is very thin ( averaging 800 Pa or about 0. 8 % of Earth sea-level atmospheric pressure ); so the pressure vessels necessary to support life are very similar to deep-space structures.

Gilliam's films have a distinctive look not only in mise-en-scene but even more so in photography, often recognizable from just a short clip ; in order to create a surreal atmosphere of psychological unrest and a world out-of-balance, Gilliam makes frequent use of unusual camera angles, particularly low-angle shots, high-angle shots, and Dutch angles.