Sentence examples for planetary terms from inspiring English sources

IN planetary terms, it was just a tiny pinprick that opened up last month underneath the Eyjafjalla Glacier in southern Iceland, when a long-forgotten volcano started to erupt again after a quiescence of nearly 200 years.

By coincidence, one of the authors of the Caballos study, Anthony Barnosky of the University of California at Berkeley, was involved in another study published the same week, a study that sought to put its finger on exactly what is so different – and so weird, in planetary terms, not to put too fine a point on it – about what is happening to the biosphere right now.

Because Bode's law (which gave the sequence of planetary distances in terms of a numerological formula) implied that there should be a planet between Mars and Jupiter, Olbers proposed that asteroids are the broken-up remnants of a medium-sized planet that once orbited in the asteroid belt region.

Autonomous-driving technology has been intentionally marketed as a hyper-advanced, quantum leap in car technology, closer resembling a NASA planetary rover in terms of technology than a Ford Focus.

The waves appear to have an important role in mediating coupling between the solar wind and planetary ionosphere, in terms of either energy or momentum transfer.

Or do we face reality and serve long-term planetary survival?

As they write in their paper, "the general problem of long-term planetary engineering is almost alarmingly feasible" using current technologies.

His analysis, while not definitive, offered some evidence that clouds will exacerbate the long-term planetary warming, just as many of the computer programs have predicted.

In preparation of an impact of considerable size, NASA has long-term planetary defense goals that include the development of asteroid deflection technologies.

This involves time scales ranging from billions of years to milliseconds, dealing with phenomena ranging from the microphysics of ion and electron motions to long term planetary evolution.

A recent report by NASA identified dust/particulate mitigation techniques as a highly relevant study for future long-term planetary exploration missions (NASA, 2015).