The convection cells give the protosphere, or the visible surface of the sun, a speckled popcorn-like texture, as piping hot plasma rises up from the cells’ center and then travels out to the ...

These cloud patterns can be observed in satellite images of the Earth and often exhibit distinct cell-like structures associated with organized convection at scales of tens of kilometres1,2,3.

Purdue University researchers have proposed that the polygons seen in the images could be individual Rayleigh–Bénard convection cells. ... who was a graduate student at Purdue the time of the research ...

Scientists have fully mapped convection cells in Earth’s magnetic field for the first time using Cluster data. Results show that the behaviour of the cells is heavily linked to solar activity ...

Convection Imperfection. Open-cell clouds are low, flat clouds that look like a quilt to someone looking down from an airplane. ... the atmosphere is much more complex than a laboratory experiment.

A 280-Mile-Wide Ring Formed by Convection. The image, taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Terra satellite, shows a Rayleigh-Bénard convection cell ...

The study is the most compelling claim anyone has made about detecting giant convection cells, says Mark Miesch, an astrophysicist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo ...

This deep convection, the most conspicuous feature of the tropical circulation, in the company of precipitation transports latent heat from the earth's surface to the upper atmosphere.

"When thinking of a Mars-like atmosphere on Earth, ... (140 kph); these high-speed winds cause the convection cells to be elongated in the direction the winds blow.

Interferometric images of the surface of the giant star π1 Gruis reveal few but large convective cells, consistent with existing models of stellar surface convection. Almost all of what we know ...

The polygons also can provide information about the depth of the pool of nitrogen through known ratios of width to depth for individual cells of convection, he said. Data show the polygons are 20 ...

Purdue University researchers have proposed that the polygons seen in the images could be individual Rayleigh–Bénard convection cells. ... Purdue graduate student Alex Trowbridge, under the guidance ...