Exhaust from the engine consists of harmless atmospheric air, cold enough to serve as air-conditioning on a hot day.
By using atmospheric air and negative ions, a natural cleansing agent, it fights dirt and bacteria with nature's own weapon, he said.
This creates bigger atmospheric waves, pushing warm air north and cold air south.
The whole event, from the meteor's atmospheric entry to its disintegration in the air above central Russia, took 32.5 seconds, NASA said.
They provide safe havens for ocean wildlife to recover and maintain healthy biodiversity, supporting habitats that act as carbon sinks, removing CO2 from the air and generating the majority of atmospheric oxygen.
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Atmospheric pressure is caused by the weight of the air over our heads.
As well as destroying such native ecosystems, deforestation also diminishes so-called "carbon sinks" -- thereby reducing the Earth's capacity to absorb and re-process atmospheric carbon dioxide -- while also adding to air pollution through the burning of land to clear it for cultivation (sugarcane fields are traditionally fired prior to harvest to remove leaves and drive away snakes).
Improved atmospheric modeling under Titan will help researchers better understand future air quality as well as the effect of particles suspended in the air.
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This project makes use for the first time of high resolution simulations from a state-of-the-art regional atmospheric chemistry model to capture both urban and regional scale air pollution features.
It is not a consequence of higher air temperatures, but from changes in ocean circulation caused by atmospheric forcing.
Researchers using the car-sized mobile laboratory have identified transient whirlwinds, mapped winds in relation to slopes, tracked daily and seasonal changes in air pressure, and linked rhythmic changes in radiation to daily atmospheric changes.
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One of the experiments involves erecting three-metre high tents over a section of the crops, allowing the team to expose the plants to a "carbon tracer" - a form of carbon that is different from atmospheric carbon so it is possible for the researchers to track its movements from the surrounding air, through the plants and into the soil.
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