From the brightness of the F component of the solar corona and the brightness of the zodiacal light, an estimate of the particle sizes, concentrations, and spatial distribution can be derived for regions of space near the ecliptic plane.

The only available field that could be used near flood-ravaged Montpelier was on the Towne farm off upper Main Street, a narrow hillside where takeoffs and landings could be safely made only under light wind conditions.

While Paul was on the road to Damascus, near Damascus, " suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him.

** Spherical aberration, which occurs when light rays strike a lens or mirror near its edge

Particulates ( or deliberately introduced seed material ) flowing along with air molecules near where the beam exits reflect, or backscatter, the light back into a detector, where it is measured relative to the original laser beam.

Berkelium ( III ) ions shows two sharp fluorescence peaks at 652 nanometers ( red light ) and 742 nanometers ( deep red – near infrared ) due to internal transitions at the f-electron shell.

This technique uses infrared transmitters and receivers to measure the amount of light reflectance by blood near different areas of the brain.

In June 1907, the French attempted to build a light railway near the port and passing through a graveyard.

A shadow of a solid object, using light from a compact source, shows small fringes near its edges.

In general, EM radiation ( the designation ' radiation ' excludes static electric and magnetic and near fields ) is classified by wavelength into radio, microwave, infrared, the visible spectrum we perceive as visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays.

Its salts are rose-colored, and the element has characteristic sharp absorption spectra bands in visible light, ultraviolet, and near infrared.

The color is ' enhanced ' in the sense that the CCD camera is sensitive to near infrared wavelengths of light beyond human vision.

On September 22, 2011, a paper from the OPERA Collaboration indicated detection of 17 and 28 GeV muon neutrinos, sent 730 kilometers ( 454 miles ) from CERN near Geneva, Switzerland to the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy, traveling faster than light by a factor of 2. 48 × 10 < sup >− 5 </ sup > ( approximately 1 in 40, 000 ), a statistic with 6. 0-sigma significance.

Proposed examples include asteroid mining that would change the appearance of debris disks around stars or large-scale use of solar power changing the light curve of planets measured near eclipse.

Deflection of light ( sent out from the location shown in blue ) near a compact body ( shown in gray )

A lightning storm can be seen as light pulses near the end of the video.

Its Jewish and non-Jewish inhabitants are " clothed with garments of light and eternal life, and eat of the tree of life " ( Enoch 58, 3 ) near to God and His anointed ones.

* In Star Trek Online, players can use a Tipler Cylinder device which has a " dense beryllium cylinder core that rotates at near light speed, allowing your ship to perform a Temporal Backstep and rewind time approximately 13 seconds.

All citizens of Haiti, regardless of skin color, to be known as " Black " ( this was an attempt to eliminate the multi-tiered racial hierarchy that had developed in Haiti, with full or near full-blooded Europeans at the top, various levels of light to brown skin in the middle, and dark skinned " Kongo " from Africa at the bottom ).

The ongoing extinction seems more outstanding in light of separating recent extinctions ( approximately since the industrial revolution ) from the Pleistocene extinction near the end of the last glacial period.

The outgoing light rays start exactly at the edge of the black hole and spend a long time near the horizon, while the infalling matter only reaches the horizon much later.

He ensured that film studios such as UFA at Babelsberg near Berlin continued to produce a stream of comedies and light romances, which drew mass audiences to the cinema where they would also watch propaganda newsreels and Nazi epics.

This species is able to see near ultraviolet light, allowing the birds to detect the urine trails around rodent burrows as they shine in an ultraviolet colour in the sunlight.

There are also plans to create light rail networks in several areas near the capital.

Aerodynamic problems can also be classified according to whether the flow speed is below, near or above the speed of sound.

The all-flying tailplane which are common on supersonic planes also help maintain control near the speed of sound.

It is defined as the range of speeds between the critical Mach number, when some parts of the airflow over an aircraft become supersonic, and a higher speed, typically near Mach 1. 2, when all of the airflow is supersonic.

As the ion will travel from the tip at voltage V < sub > 1 </ sub > to some nominal ground potential, the speed at which the ion is travelling can be estimated by the energy transferred into the ion during ( or near ) ionisation.

This was thought to be due to synchrotron radiation, caused by the injection of relativistic electronselectrons with velocities near the speed of lightinto the Jovian magnetosphere by the impacts.

After more delays, he finally achieved his seventh WSR at Lake Dumbleyung near Perth, Western Australia, on the last day of 1964, at a speed of.

The other major issue leading to rail fins ' use is the fact that a rider can use the lift near the rail to increase speed and performance on smaller waves due to the above effects and abilities of these foils.

Oars were used when near the coast or in a river, to gain speed quickly, and when there was an adverse ( or insufficient ) wind.

Variations on this basic formula describe the magnetic force on a current-carrying wire ( sometimes called Laplace force ), the electromotive force in a wire loop moving through a magnetic field ( an aspect of Faraday's law of induction ), and the force on a particle which might be traveling near the speed of light ( relativistic form of the Lorentz force ).

For example, in the Twin paradox one twin brother goes on a trip near the speed of light and comes home younger than his twin, who stayed at home.

Albatrosses spend long stretches of time at sea fishing, and use a flight pattern called " dynamic soaring " which exploits the vertical gradient of wind speed near the ocean surface to travel long distances without flapping, and without the aid of thermals ( which do not occur over the open ocean the same way they do over land ).

It is the pathway to SCM results, a combination of the processes, methodologies, tools and delivery options to guide companies to their results quickly as the complexity and speed of the supply chain increase due to the effects of global competition, rapid price fluctuations, surging oil prices, short product life cycles, expanded specialization, near -/ far-and off-shoring, and talent scarcity.

They will ride around the very top of the track as they near the start line, then drop down to the bottom to gain as much speed as possible from rolling down the steep inclined banking.

Turboprop airliners now operate at near the same speed as small turbofan-powered aircraft but burn two-thirds of the fuel per passenger.

For flight speeds near the speed of sound ( transonic flight ) or above the speed of sound ( supersonic flight ), airfoils with complex asymmetrical shapes are used to minimize the drastic increase in drag associated with airflow near the speed of sound.

In the dark of night Nuvolari tailed Varzi for tens of kilometres, riding at speed of with his headlights off, thereby being invisible in Varzi's rear-view mirrors ; he then switched on his headlights before overtaking " the shocked " Varzi near the finish at Brescia.

Later research into airflows near or above the speed of sound used a related approach.