Sentence examples for above the atmosphere from inspiring English sources

Positioned above the atmosphere, Hubble avoids atmospheric airglow allowing it to take more sensitive visible and ultraviolet light images than can be obtained with seeing-limited ground-based telescopes (when good adaptive optics correction at visible wavelengths becomes possible, 10 m ground-based telescopes may become competitive).

Initially, the DNs of the seven-band of TM images were processed and converted into extra-atmospheric reflectance values (reflectance above the atmosphere), using the published Landsat TM post-launch gains and offsets (ENVI software version 3.2).

The enemy weapon would be disintegrated high above the atmosphere.

The Colin Firth of "A Single Man," likewise, rises above the atmosphere that encircles him.

Up above the atmosphere, heavy and light objects follow the same trajectories.

Above the atmosphere, in low Earth orbit, the radiation is about 15 times more intense than on Earth.

It uses a surface-to-air missile that is capable of intercepting ballistic missiles above the atmosphere.

Satellite observatory, Earth-orbiting spacecraft that allows celestial objects and radiation to be studied from above the atmosphere.

Many of those tests also shook the desert from above, in the atmosphere, before a treaty banned the practice in 1963.

Drugs were mentioned but it was more nudge-nudge than known and above all the atmosphere was one of unity, a celebration of the youth of the world uninhibited by class, colour or creed.

This study discusses the effect of balconies on the dispersion of vehicular pollutants inside a deep street canyon and on the mass transfer rate between the canyon and the above atmosphere.