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Sentence Examples Most of the spots that did appear were located near the solar equator and scarcely lasted for more than one rotation of the Sun. Many magnetic storms occurred in tandem with reports of solar flares or of large sunspot regions near the Sun's equator. As you move away from the equator and toward the poles, the longitude lines get closer together, creating a nonhomogeneous globe. Right ascension, measures the easterly distance of an object from the vernal point, along the plane of the celestial equator. Admittedly, your meter is wrong, in that ten million meters wouldn't quite get you from the North Pole to the equator via Paris. He lived up north and now he felt like he was walking across the equator of the planet. That illustrates the importance of addressing the ball on the equator and keeping your stroke rhythmical. From the equator she will sail past the Cape of Good Hope and then to Cape Leeuwin in Australia. Easterly winds predominate near the equator and also in the lower atmosphere at the poles. The maximum speed of rotation is a little over 1,000 mph at the equator, with speeds a bit less in temperate latitudes. The numbers that you see along the equator line represent celestial longitude, that is, hours of right ascension. Let L be the earth's equator and let x be a point in the northern hemisphere. The satellites are orbiting the Earth at a fixed point, above the equator, they say. The atmosphere rotates with periods ranging from over 18 hours near the equator to faster than 13 hours near the poles. The Maldives include nearly 1,200 islands in 15 major atolls spanning approximately 470 miles to just south of the equator. They accumulate around the equator of Earth in the radiation belts and the tail of the magnetosphere in a dense region known as the plasma sheet. The force of magnetism, or magnetic field, is much stronger at the magnet poles than around the equator. The Sun spins once on its axis once every 25 days at its equator, carrying sunspots around. On the equator there is little wind, mariners called this region the doldrums because they feared being stranded there. These nine nights occur on equinoxes or equal nights when the sun is vertically overhead at the equator or centre. Show More Sentences Two NASA rovers were to be launched this month and next, for Mars, and are scheduled to land in January near the planet's equator. What was left of the population had to cross the equator every equinox to escape the now-extreme winters and summers. The absolute end of the earth, the terminus of an equator of cool that wraps around the globe and begins in New York. The water is extra salty in the ocean thereabouts, and the midday sun is fierce so near the equator. The declination of a heavenly body is its angular distance from the equinoctial or celestial equator. Think of the segmented circle as being divided at its equator into two opposite-facing bowls. The voyage must also start from and return to the same point, and cross all of the meridians as well as the equator. The team found large hot bubbles extending above and below a disk of gas along the equator of the galaxy. The Sun crosses the celestial equator from north to south as it traces its apparent annual path against the background of stars. One of the most challenging stretches will be the doldrums, the area around the equator where there may be only light winds for days on end. The 3D images of pack ice near the Martian equator have been taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on board the Mars Express probe. As they move around as the Sun spins, sunspots near the solar equator return to their starting point in about twenty-five days. Set up in 1923, the historical Bosscha Observatory is the closest observatory in the world to the equator. The Indonesian archipelago stretches over a vast area, straddling the equator. The latitudinal studies involve seasonality near the equator and in each hemisphere. The first image is of the impressive spiral galaxy NGC 6118, located near the celestial equator, in the constellation Serpens. The statue's sky globe, which is 26 inches in diameter, shows 41 Greek constellations, as well as the celestial equator, tropics and ecliptic. They also occur more often in the winter and in the middle to high latitudes rather than near to the equator. In fact several inversions have been found to form clines with higher frequencies at low latitudes near the equator. Both clades show some overlap in their geographic distribution around the equator. Show More Sentences Since the Maldives are so near the equator, you should take care not to get sunburned. Air parcels at higher heights over the equator are accelerated down the gradient toward the pole by the force of gravity. By far the most popular type is the planispheric astrolabe, on which the celestial sphere is projected onto the plane of the equator. This diagram shows three major convective cells between the equator and the pole. Logic, applied to conflict, is the equator between two often very opposite poles. He speculated that a ball falling through a hole at the equator would follow a corkscrew trajectory. It is known that insects both of a creophagous and saprophagous nature, gradually diminish in relative numbers from the poles to the equator. He uses his imagination as the first geographers did when on their charts they drew the equator. It is a fact of geography that near the equator, the earth receives more energy from the sun. The steam escaped from the sphere from one or more bent tubes projecting from its equator, causing the sphere to revolve. The engraved numbers from 1 to 24 on the globe's equator rotate, showing local time. For such a scenario, the centrifugal forces would cause its water veneer to gravitate away from the poles and pile up at the equator. If you laid all your blood vessels out end to end, they would wrap twice around the equator. The earth can be thought of as a gigantic gyroscope, spinning at over 1000 miles per hour at its equator. The further you go away from temperate latitudes towards the equator, the fewer changes you see in the day to day weather throughout the year. The Sun crosses the projection of Earth's equator on the sky and passes into the Southern Hemisphere. However, I do not refuse certificates distributed in airplanes that attest that I've crossed the equator, the North Pole and the Arctic Circle. The crew's morale bottomed out when the Wave Warrior hit the Doldrums, an area near the equator that is notorious for its calms and its light, shifting winds. As air is sucked towards the equator on the trade winds and rises, it loses its moisture as rainfall before moving back towards the poles on the antitrade winds. Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world and spans both sides of the equator, making it both a northern and a southern hemisphere destination. Show More Sentences As of 1791, the meter was defined as one ten-millionth the distance from the North Pole to the equator along the line of longitude that passes through Paris. The village lay a few latitudes above the equator and was now enjoying what the northerners might call a mild winter but for southerners, it was simply the rainy season. Although Saturn has passed overhead before dusk, the planet, because it appears well north of the celestial equator, remains visible for several hours after sunset. Near the equator the separate loxodromes are nearly right lines. If one extrapolates the equator of the Earth out into the sky, the celestial equator is delineated as a circle cutting the celestial sphere into two. We said earlier that the end of a pointer, pointing at Polaris, casts a shadow that moves round a circle on a disk parallel to the equator of the Earth. The Pacific event occurs at the geographical latitude of the equator. This influx of fresh water causes the Gulf Stream, the ocean current that carries warm water from the equator into the northern hemisphere, to stop. From the equator down to the South Pole, the lines of latitude get smaller once again, corresponding to the Universe shrinking back to nothing at all as time passes. The vernal and autumnal equinoxes occur when the ecliptic crosses the celestial equator, so linking stars, sun and earth through the passage of time. Today, this ancient technique, along with clear-cut logging, is rapidly depleting the great rain forests that span the equator and help regulate the world's weather. The weather is hot because of the country's closeness to the equator. At the Earth's surface, the intensity of the main field varies from roughly 24000 to 66000 nanoteslas, from the magnetic equator to near the geomagnetic poles, respectively. Yasuni Natonal Park, where the equator meets the Andes, is famed for its fabulous variety of plants and animals. Usually, blue whales are sighted near the poles or at the equator. He suggested measuring latitude, the distance north or south of the equator, by determining the ratio of the longest to the shortest day at that place. However, using Ulysses, they have now shown that, when the Sun's magnetic axis points near its equator, it allows much more cosmic dust to enter the Solar System than normal. High-resolution pictures from the Mars Express spacecraft also suggested the Olympus Mons volcano on the planet's equator may have an icecap made of water. Creating gravity would be a problem, since spinning the sphere would add more stress to the structure and force everyone to the equator of the sphere. Those storms kicked up in the collision zone around the equator spin westward off the coast of Cape Verde. Show More Sentences And yet the trees are cultivated in every country within 15 degrees of the equator, so a virtual cocoa belt encircles the globe. In drifting, they may sweep through locations where other moons disturb them, making their orbits eccentric or inclined relative to the planet's equator. The first, known as the meridional flow pattern, circulates between the sun's equator and its poles over a period of 17 to 22 years and acts like a conveyor belt of sunspots. It passed through the equator of the planet, and then down again. The air in the North Pacific subtropical gyre is heated at the equator and rises high into the atmosphere because of its buoyancy in cooler, surrounding air masses. Highlights of the image include a volcanic plume over the equator near the Philippines and a large polar stratospheric cloud above Antarctica. Maximum temperatures occur north of the equator, and minimum values are found in the polar regions. Pizarro's main pilot sailed south and, after crossing the equator, captured a raft from Tumbes. The Horn of Africa is almost equidistant from the equator and the Tropic of Cancer. The lowlands of the Horn are generally arid in spite of their proximity to the equator. It is measured in degrees, minutes and seconds or decimal degrees, north or south of the equator. The geodetic and geocentric latitudes are equal at the equator and at the poles but at other latitudes they differ by a few minutes of arc. The isometric latitude is zero at the equator but rapidly diverges from the geodetic latitude, tending to infinity at the poles. Due to Somalia's proximity to the equator, there is not much seasonal variation in its climate. Brazil is the only country in the world that has the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn running through it. The South Equatorial Currents of the Atlantic and Pacific straddle the equator. At this point in time the area would have been positioned around the equator and would form part of the Pangaea supercontinent. Many species are famous for undertaking long annual migrations, crossing the equator or circumnavigating the Earth in some cases. Of these, the trip taken by the Arctic tern is the farthest of any bird, crossing the equator in order to spend the Austral summer in Antarctica. Courtship rituals take place during the winter months, following migration toward the equator from summer feeding grounds closer to the poles. Show More Sentences They are relatively abundant from the poles to the equator and are found in all the oceans. If the Earth's axis were not tilted toward the sun, a vertical rod at the equator would have no shadow. In this way, it is possible to build fractal hypervolumes, whose fractal dimension rises up to three moving towards the equator. Due to rotation, the Earth is flattened along the geographic axis and bulging around the equator. East Antarctica was at the equator, where sea floor invertebrates and trilobites flourished in the tropical seas. In part the NECC owes its existence to the fact that the ITCZ is not located at the equator, rather several degrees latitude to the north. By the 17th century John Seller divided the Atlantic Ocean in two parts by means of the equator. The African Plate is a major tectonic plate straddling the equator as well as the prime meridian. Cyclones rarely form along the equator due to the weak Coriolis effect present in this region. Imagine a train that travels through a frictionless railway line along the equator. The daily inequality is not consistent and is generally small when the Moon is over the equator. This cold mass of water flows from Antarctica to the equator, bringing with it large schools of fish called anchoveta. An orbit near the equator was important for a variety of reasons. At the equator, we would observe the Little and Big Dippers close to the horizon. Earth's axis is inclined at approximately 23 degrees to the Sun's celestial equator changing the altitude of the Sun during the year. By the time of dichotomy in late October the planet's declination will be well south of the celestial equator. In the northern hemisphere, the Sun crosses the celestial equator moving southward. It is also the one constellation that is viewable all over the world, as it lies on the celestial equator. So why have the days been outstripping nights, even if the sun hasn't crossed the celestial equator yet? Using the 6-meter Atacama telescope, astronomers analyzed the temperature of the afterglow in a narrow strip of sky along the celestial equator. Show More Sentences You don't want to be right at the equator because you couldn't get the celestial poles from the equatorial regions. The vernal, or spring equinox, on March 20, is basically an astronomical phenomenon, occurring when the sun is at its zenith above the equator. To show those overpaid nancy boys of association football a thing or two when it comes to crossing the equator on global duty. The two hemispheres are separated by a distinct rim or cingulum at the equator. He addresses the popular belief that water drains counter clockwise below the equator. A geostationary orbit is a circular orbit 35,786 kilometers above the Earth s equator and following the direction of the Earth s rotation. As the moon moves around its orbit it changes from north of the equator to south of the equator. This cold water moves along the ocean floor towards the equator, while warmer water on the ocean surface moves in the direction of the poles. Despite its name, the North Equatorial Current is not connected to the equator. The westward surface flow at the equator in both oceans is part of the South Equatorial Current. As the World Magnetic Model shows, the intensity tends to decrease from the poles to the equator. Temporary dipole tilt variations that take the dipole axis across the equator and then back to the original polarity are known as excursions. Mountainous locales near the equator in Colombia are amongst the wettest places on Earth. The distance traveled in the journey around Africa to India and back was greater than around the equator. At the equator the Coriolis effect is nonexistent and the water flows westward until it encounters a blocking continent. Tropical forests were limited to a tight band around the equator, and in addition to dry savannahs, deserts appeared in Asia and Africa. If, however, the armada arrived in the latter part of the season, say September, turning at the equator was a risky route. The climate throughout the archipelago is tropical, owing to its position on the equator. If a navigator measures the angle to Polaris and finds it to be 10 degrees from the horizon, then he is about 10 degrees north of the equator. But this proved less useful as they approached the equator and the Pole Star began to disappear into the horizon. Show More Sentences Unlike latitude, which has the equator as a natural starting position, there is no natural starting position for longitude. Also suppose that this observer is within the plane of the planet's equator. Catherine in Gabon and Cape Cross, almost from the equator to Walvis Bay in Namibia. The temperature is also shaped by the Caribbean current, which brings in warm water from the equator. Roughly, the latitude of a place on Earth is its angular distance north or south of the equator. Each second of error is equivalent to 15 seconds of longitude error, which at the equator is a position error of. New Guinea is an island to the north of Australia, but south of the equator. As part of the Hadley cell circulation, surface air flows toward the equator while the flow aloft is towards the poles. Sea level closer to the equator is several miles farther from the centre of the Earth. It has 10 faces on the polar axis with 10 faces following the equator. Many telecommunication satellites orbit at 36000km above the equator. That is presuming the armada arrived at the equator sometime in August. Spores trilete, radially symmetrical, foveolate, tetrahedral from the polar view, having a laesura with three radiating branches near to the equator, ca. Globewise, it is far south of the British Isles, Holland, Belgium and even Switzerland and no farther from the equator than Marseilles, France, and Pisa and Florence in Italy. The galaxies lie within a continuous ribbon of sky known as SDSS Stripe 82, lying along the celestial equator and encompassing 275 square degrees. As the sun crosses the celestial equator, the axis of the Earth points neither toward nor away from the sun, resulting in 12 hours of light and 12 hours of darkness. This aspect of the Coriolis effect is greatest near the equator. This supercontinent included large amounts of land near the poles and, near the equator, only a relatively small strip connecting the polar masses. During clear days in summer, more solar radiation reaches the surface at the South Pole than at the equator because of the 24 hours of sunlight each day at the Pole. The climate north of the equator is affected by a monsoon climate. Show More Sentences No species are known to naturally occur south of the equator, though attempts at sturgeon aquaculture are being made in Uruguay, South Africa, and other places. Although whales are widespread, most species prefer the colder waters of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, and migrate to the equator to give birth. The continents of Avalonia, Baltica, and Laurentia drifted together near the equator, starting the formation of a second supercontinent known as Euramerica. With the supercontinent Gondwana covering the equator and much of the southern hemisphere, a large ocean occupied most of the northern half of the globe. During the Cambrian period the crustal region which became Scotland formed part of the continental shelf of Laurentia, then still south of the equator. Regions in the world with similar climates include the Aleutian Islands, the Alaska Peninsula, and Tierra del Fuego, although these regions are closer to the equator. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator and to each other. Diego Garcia is an atoll just south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean, and the largest of 60 small islands comprising the Chagos Archipelago. Central was defined as juxtapapillary and within the vessel arcade, midperipheral as between the vessel arcade and the equator, and peripheral as anterior to the equator. In his Geography, Strabo described tides in the Persian Gulf having their greatest range when the moon was furthest from the plane of the equator. In terms of altitude, sugarcane crop is found up to 1,600 metres or 5,200 feet close to the equator in countries such as Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Only in quite recent times has agriculture spread to the more humid regions south of the equator, through the spread of cattle, sheep and crops such as millet. Heating of the earth near the equator leads to large amounts of upward motion and convection along the monsoon trough or intertropical convergence zone. During her circumnavigation, she set records for the fastest solo voyage to the equator, past the Cape of Good Hope, past Cape Horn and back to the equator again. Examples from Classical Literature When the sun is south of the celestial equator its apparent daily path is the same as it would be for a star so situated. If near the equator an instrument gives the latitude of the polar circle, it is a proof that it is not working rightly. How strange it must be living in a town like pontianak, in West Borneo, where the equator passes through the main street! The specific difference in the new family, denoted in the general sketch by b, is this ellipticity of the equator. Then the zenith would be on the celestial equator and the north and south poles of the heavens would be on the horizon. The angle of elevation of the celestial equator to the horizon varies according to the position of the observer. I may almost say their temperature would be the same at the equator as the Pole. Its plane is inclined about 63 to the celestial equator and its poles lie in the constellations of Coma Berenicis and Cetus. And he tells you that the earth south of the equator makes the inferior man. For some reason, the equator, the colure, the zenith and the poles were all marked out by these serpentine or draconic forms. As the amphiaster grows the centrosomes are grouped in a plane at the equator of the spindle, forming the Equatorial Plate. In the stage of degeneration, ectasae of the sclera occur most frequently near the equator of the globe. It is my intention to move one of the tropics up there and transfer the Frigid Zone to the equator. The cod family has many species in northern seas and a few south of the equator. But how this would have helped them to cross the geographical equator, we fail to see. We may remark that the main part of the zodiacal light shifts to the south side of the celestial equator as we cross the line. The celestial equator is a great circle of the sky distant 90 from the poles. On the surface of the sphere the equator, the ecliptic, the equinoctial, and the solstitial colures are represented. On the north side of the equator we have a northeasterly wind, and a southeasterly wind on the south side. The line of intersection will be a great circle of the celestial sphere, called the celestial equator. Show More Sentences Some one has described the Dutch East Indies as a necklace of emeralds strung on the equator. The celestial equator is the great circle in which the plane of the earth's equator intersects the celestial sphere. But suppose that the earth is to the North of the magnetic equator of the field, what happens then? H represents the sun, and a the place immediately underneath it, which is also coincident with the magnetic equator. These lines are made by currents arising from one side of the magnetic equator, and passing over to the other. The magnetic equator, as sought by the dipping needle, is not coincident with the geographical one. Aclinic Line, the magnetic equator, along which the needle always remains horizontal. This is the magnetic equator, that neither draws the magnet nor repulses it, and here there is perfect peace. A freely suspended magnetic needle will not maintain a horizontal position except at the magnetic equator. The value of the horizontal component is zero at the north magnetic pole, and increases toward the magnetic equator. Only on the equator is a minute of longitude and a nautical mile of the same length. Referring to the time when the sun passes the celestial equator. It is situated in the constellation Cetus, a little south of the equator. There is no distinction between the equator and the ecliptic. If it did, the equator would be frozen in twenty-four hours! The ancients had said that no continent existed south of the equator. South Pacific trade winds kept La Nina in positive oscillation, active along the equator. Even in the constitutional realm of Trade Winds, north and south of the equator, ships are overtaken by strange disturbances. The next day, 26th of January, we cut the equator at the eighty-second meridian and entered the northern hemisphere. The change in vegetation below showed me that we were rapidly nearing the equator. Show More Sentences Doctor Krapf proposes to push forward, in the west, by way of the Djob, a river lying under the equator. All allegorize the Sun, six months above and six months below the equator. Then, for a time, he dwelt alone with his family, his account books, and the Evil Spirit that rules the lands under the equator. This island, lying near to the eastern coast of Africa, is in the sixth degree of south latitude, that is to say, four hundred and thirty geographical miles below the equator. Now night, in the forests of the equator, is always dangerous, particularly when, like ourselves, one has not the materials for a fire to keep off the beasts of prey. The tick escaped from Tom, presently, and crossed the equator. Around 315 million years ago, during the Pennsylvanian period of Earth's history, these regions formed the tropical belt of a huge supercontinent that straddled the equator. He spoke disrespectfully of the equator, he skipped from continent to continent, he derided the zones, he mopped up the high seas with his napkin. These Kaolians are most noble fighters, nor are the green men of the equator one whit less warlike than their cold, cruel cousins of the temperate zone. The long, narrow, and disconnected swaths of the Medusae Fossae formation extend about 5,400 kilometers along Mars' equator, about a quarter of the way around the planet. Find more words! 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