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 ...

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 ...

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.

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Purdue University researchers have proposed that the polygons seen in the images could be individual Rayleigh-Bénard convection cells. A paper detailing the work will be published in the journal ...