Sentence examples for thin layer of atmosphere from inspiring English sources

Under a startlingly thin layer of atmosphere, vast expanses of desert ceded to forests that gave way to the oceans that make up 70 percent of Earth's surface.

He has a brief, childish cartoon to explain that the thin layer of atmosphere that surrounds the Earth - like the coat of varnish on a wooden globe - is being thickened by vast quantities of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

"It's this convergence of a burgeoning human population with a remarkably thin layer of atmosphere that is warming our world," Nye said.

Whew...And, there were a lot of people on this planet.... It's this convergence of a burgeoning human population with a remarkably thin layer of atmosphere that is warming our world.

Imagine: there is an Earth which has a thin layer of atmosphere to protect itself and beyond that, there is the universe in which everything is either hostile or indifferent towards us.

Imagine: there is an Earth which has a thin layer of atmosphere to protect itself and beyond that, there is the universe in which everything is either hostile or indifferent towards us.

The space between the source and the drain is covered by a thin layer of silicon dioxide formed by heating the silicon in an oxidizing atmosphere.

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.

This was followed by sealing the water surface with a thin layer of liquid paraffin wax (Gene Chem., Canada) to avoid any diffusion of oxygen from the atmosphere.

There may also be a thin layer of water clouds underlying the ammonia layer, as evidenced by flashes of lightning detected in the atmosphere of Jupiter.

Instruments on board the unmanned probe detected a thin layer of oxygen around the moon, so thin that scientists prefer to call it an "exosphere" rather than an atmosphere.