9 sentences with 'equator'
Example sentences and phrases with the word equator and other words derived from it.
• « Jupiter rotates much faster than the Earth and that rotation causes the clouds to elongate parallel to the planet's equator. »
• « it is Saturn about to give us its second great show. We are going to place the spacecraft exactly under the planet's rings, at the point that marks Saturn's equator and about fourteen thousand kilometres away. Attention... Now! »
• « Just below the very thin rings, at Saturn's equator, a bright crack splits the sky in two. The narrow shadow on the left marks the spring season, which will be followed by a fifteen-year winter in one hemisphere and a fifteen-year summer in the other. »
• « In Earth's distant past, the South Pole was once the equator. The animals that populated the earth in those ages are now oil. »
• « Although Neptune's rings have not been detected, and it is impossible for us to define whether those somewhat darker spots around the planet are indeed rings or clouds of gas running parallel to Neptune's equator, scientists believe that Neptune is indeed surrounded by a ring system like its big brothers Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. »
• « The planet Uranus moves from midsummer in the northern hemisphere to spring when the line separating day and night (terminator) forms a right angle to the equator like a normal planet. »
• « This geographical unit, central to the emergence of the Atlantic world, stretches from present-day Mauritania to the Democratic Republic of Congo and encompasses lush tropical rainforests along the equator, savannahs on both sides of the jungle and much drier lands to the north. »