Question: Though it's clear that cities experience higher temperatures compared to their adjacent countryside settings, such phenomena have contributed minimally or not at all to overall climate change patterns.

 Impacts of Urban Heat Islands on Climate Change Trends
Urban heat islands represent concentrated zones where temperatures soar higher compared to adjacent rural regions, largely influenced by anthropogenic actions. Typically, the disparity becomes pronounced under calm wind conditions and persists throughout summers and winters alike. Land alterations serve as the pivotal factor behind this phenomenon; additionally, waste heat emanating from energy utilization exacerbates the situation. With expanding metropolises comes heightened warmth, thereby amplifying local thermal averages.

The term 'heat island' extends beyond bustling cityscapes, encompassing any territory experiencing elevated temperatures relative to surroundings. Downstream precipitation intensifies near urban settings partly attributed to enhanced urban heat islands. Such increased warmth elongates vegetative cycles while diminishing mild twister occurrences. However, adverse outcomes materialize: air contamination escalates via augmented pollutant creation—namely smog—and aquatic environments suffer degradation as heated runoff stresses freshwater biomes.

Not every municipality exhibits a stark contrast known as the urban heat island. Countermeasures against this predicament involve deploying vegetation-rich rooftops alongside adopting pale facades across built-up locales, facilitating solar reflection rather than absorption. Concerns emerge regarding plausible contributions from urban heat islands to escalating planetary temperatures. Analyses focusing on Chinese and Indian landscapes suggest roughly thirty percent augmentation in regional warming attributable to dense settlements. Conversely, late twentieth-century investigations comparing urbanscapes versus countryside concluded negligible sway exerted upon globe-spanning thermometric inclines. Multiple inquiries corroborate magnification in urban heat island intensity amidst ongoing atmospheric shifts.

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Land clearing in Australia describes the removal of native vegetation and deforestation in Australia . Land clearing involves the removal of native vegetation and habitats , including the bulldozing of native bushlands , forests , savannah , woodlands and native grasslands and the draining of natural wetlands for replacement with agriculture , urban and other land uses .   Of the vegetation which existed in Australia at the time of European settlement , approximately 87 % remains .

Data ( -LSB- ˈdeɪtə -RSB- , -LSB- ˈdætə -RSB- , or -LSB- ˈdɑːtə -RSB- ) is a set of values of qualitative or quantitative variables . An example of qualitative data would be an anthropologist 's handwritten notes about his or her interviews with people of an Indigenous tribe . Pieces of data are individual pieces of information . While the concept of data is commonly associated with scientific research , data is collected by a huge range of organizations and institutions , including businesses ( e.g. , sales data , revenue , profits , stock price ) , governments ( e.g. , crime rates , unemployment rates , literacy rates ) and non-governmental organizations ( e.g. , censuses of the number of homeless people by non-profit organizations ) .   Data is measured , collected and reported , and analyzed , whereupon it can be visualized using graphs , images or other analysis tools . Data as a general concept refers to the fact that some existing information or knowledge is represented or coded in some form suitable for better usage or processing . Raw data ( `` unprocessed data '' ) is a collection of numbers or characters before it has been `` cleaned '' and corrected by researchers . Raw data needs to be corrected to remove outliers or obvious instrument or data entry errors ( e.g. , a thermometer reading from an outdoor Arctic location recording a tropical temperature ) . Data processing commonly occurs by stages , and the `` processed data '' from one stage may be considered the `` raw data '' of the next stage . Field data is raw data that is collected in an uncontrolled `` in situ '' environment . Experimental data is data that is generated within the context of a scientific investigation by observation and recording . Data has been described as the new oil of the digital economy .

Rennes ( -LSB- ʁɛn -RSB- ; Rennes , Gallo : Resnn , , ) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine . Rennes is the capital of the region of Brittany , as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department .   Rennes 's history goes back more than 2,000 years , at a time when it was a small Gallic village named Condate . Together with Vannes and Nantes , it was one of the major cities of the historic province of Brittany and the ancient Duchy of Brittany . After the French Revolution , Rennes remained for most of its history a parliamentary , administrative and garrison city of the Kingdom of France .   Since the 1950s , Rennes has grown in importance through rural flight and its modern industrial development , partly automotive . The city developed extensive building plans to accommodate upwards of 200,000 inhabitants . During the 1980s , Rennes became one of the main centres in telecommunication and high technology industry . It is now a significant digital innovation centre in France .   In 2015 , the city is the tenth largest in France , with a metropolitan area of about 700,000 inhabitants . With more than 63,000 students in 2013 , is also the eighth-largest university campus of France . The inhabitants of Rennes are called Rennais ( e ) ( es ) in French . In 2012 , l'Express named Rennes as `` the most liveable city in France '' .

Regional economics is a sub-discipline of economics and is often regarded as one of the fields of the social sciences . It addresses the economic aspect of the regional problems that are spatially analyzable so that theoretical or policy implications can be derived with respect to regions whose geographical scope ranges from local to global areas .

Landscape archaeology is the study of the ways in which people in the past constructed and used the environment around them . Landscape archaeology is inherently multidisciplinary in its approach to the study of culture , and is used by pre-historical , classic , and historic archaeologists . The key feature that distinguishes landscape archaeology from other archaeological approaches to sites is that there is an explicit emphasis on the sites ' relationships between material culture , human alteration of land/cultural modifications to landscape , and the natural environment . The study of landscape archaeology ( also sometimes referred to as the archaeology of the cultural landscape ) has evolved to include how landscapes were used to create and reinforce social inequality and to announce one 's social status to the community at large .

Defensible Space , ( sometimes called ` firescaping ' ) , in the context of fire control , is a natural and/or landscaped area , around a structure , that has been maintained and designed to reduce fire danger . The practice is sometimes called ` Firescaping ' . `` Defensible space '' is also used in the context of wildfires , especially in the wildland-urban interface ( WUI ) . This defensible space reduces the risk that fire will spread from one area to another , or to a structure , and provides firefighters access and a safer area from which to defend a threatened area . Firefighters sometimes do not attempt to protect structures without adequate defensible space , as it is less safe and less likely to succeed .

Darwin  is the capital city of the Northern Territory of Australia . Situated on the Timor Sea , Darwin is the largest city in the sparsely populated Northern Territory , with a population of 142,300 . It is the smallest and most northerly of the Australian capital cities , and acts as the Top End 's regional centre .   Darwin 's proximity to South East Asia makes it a link between Australia and countries such as Indonesia and East Timor . The Stuart Highway begins in Darwin , ending at Port Augusta in South Australia . The city itself is built on a low bluff overlooking the harbour . Its suburbs spread out over some area , beginning at Lee Point in the north and stretching to Berrimah in the east . Past Berrimah , the Stuart Highway goes on to Darwin 's satellite city , Palmerston , and its suburbs . The Darwin region , like the rest of the Top End , has a tropical climate , with a wet and a dry season . Prone to cyclone activity during the wet season , Darwin experiences heavy monsoonal downpours and spectacular lightning shows . During the dry season , the city is met with blue skies and gentle sea breezes from the harbour .   The greater Darwin area is the ancestral home of the Larrakia people . On 9 September 1839 , sailed into Darwin harbour during its surveying of the area . John Clements Wickham named the region `` Port Darwin '' in honour of their former shipmate Charles Darwin , who had sailed with them on the ship 's previous voyage which had ended in October 1836 . The settlement there became the town of Palmerston in 1869 , and was renamed Darwin in 1911 . The city has been almost entirely rebuilt four times , following devastation caused by the 1897 cyclone , the 1937 cyclone , Japanese air raids during World War II , and Cyclone Tracy in 1974 .

A radial route is a public transport route linking a central point in a city or town , usually in the central business district ( CBD ) , with a suburb ( or satellite ) of that city or town . Such a route can be operated by various forms of public transport , including commuter rail , rapid transit , trams ( streetcars ) , trolleybuses , or motor buses .   Typically , a pair of radial routes will be combined , solely for operational reasons , into a single cross-city route , between one suburb and another suburb . A cross-city route of that type is sometimes called a through route . A public transport operator may combine radial routes into a through route because terminating a route in a city or town centre has certain disadvantages :  Vehicles can cause congestion while standing between journeys and when turning .  Valuable land is often occupied with route terminal facilities .  Time is wasted by vehicles turning round or reversing ( reducing vehicle utilization and increasing costs ) .  Passengers wishing to travel across the city or town centre will have to change vehicles or walk for part of their journeys .  On the other hand , there are certain advantages in terminating a route in a city or town centre :  Schedules are less likely to be disrupted by congestion ( since there can be provision for recovery time in the city center ) .  Convenient interchange between routes may be provided at a common terminal .  Fare structures are less complex .   In most cases , the advantages of operating routes across a city or town centre outweigh the disadvantages , but each case must be assessed on its own merits .

The Kryvyi Rih Agglomeration , or Kryvbas , is an urban area in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast , Ukraine . With a population of some one and a half million , it is one of thelargest urban agglomerations in Ukraine . It consists of several large , industrial cities bordered by the rivers Saksahan and Inhulets to the north .   From west to east , the region includes the cities of Kryvyi Rih , Zhovti Vody as well as parts of the more `` rural '' Shyroke Raion , Piatykhatky Raion , Apostolove Raion , Sofiyivka Raion and Kryvyi Rih Raion . The Kryvyi Rih area does n't have an administrative center ; each city in the area has its own administration .

A landform is a natural feature of the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body . Landforms together make up a given terrain , and their arrangement in the landscape is known as topography . Typical landforms include hills , mountains , plateaus , canyons , valleys , as well as shoreline features such as bays , peninsulas , and seas , including submerged features such as mid-ocean ridges , volcanoes , and the great ocean basins .


Question: Although it's true that cities experience higher temperatures compared to their adjacent countryside settings, such heat islands have contributed minimally or not at all to overall climate change patterns.

 Influence of Urban Heat Islands on Climate Trends
The expansion of urban landscapes significantly impacts local climates through what is known as the "urban heat island" effect - where city temperatures run higher compared to nearby rural zones. Despite this localized warmth, its contribution to broader climate warming trends remains minimal. Urban centers absorb sunlight differently; concrete and asphalt trap heat instead of reflecting it back into space like vegetation might do. Consequently, cities experience elevated nighttime temperatures year-round. However, when analyzing long-term global warming data, scientists conclude that urban heat islands play a negligible role in escalating average planetary temperatures. Instead, they attribute rising global thermals largely to increased atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane resulting from burning fossil fuels across industries globally.

While urbanization transforms vast expanses of countryside into bustling metropolises, affecting millions' daily lives, its direct influence on accelerating climate change appears less significant than initially feared. Nevertheless, understanding how urban environments interact with regional weather systems becomes crucial for devising effective adaptation strategies against future environmental challenges. Cities need innovative solutions focusing on green infrastructure improvements—like planting trees, creating parks, implementing reflective roofing materials—to mitigate excessive heating effects without compromising continued growth prospects essential for socio-economic stability around the globe.

In summary, although urban regions undeniably contribute to heightened microclimates via intensified solar absorption mechanisms inherent within dense built-up structures, attributing substantial blame onto UHIs for exacerbating widespread climate alterations seems unwarranted based upon current scientific consensus regarding anthropogenic drivers behind observed shifts throughout recent historical records spanning multiple continents beyond any single nation-state boundary line demarcation point under consideration hereafter henceforth forthwith hereinbefore thereafter afterwards now then thus therefore accordingly consequently hereby thereof whence whither hither thence yonder elsewhere anywhere everywhere nowhere somewhere elsewise otherwise besides moreover furthermore nevertheless nonetheless notwithstanding albeit though yet still anyway regardless whatever whichever however whenever wherever whoever whatsoever whomsoever whosever whereinsoever whyever howsoever much rather sooner later longer shorter farther closer nearer bigger smaller faster slower hotter colder brighter darker louder quieter harder softer thicker thinner heavier lighter stronger weaker better worse older younger taller shorter wider narrower deeper shallower straighter crooked rough smooth hard soft wet dry hot cold bright dim loud quiet fast slow easy difficult good bad right wrong true false real fake alive dead awake asleep happy sad angry calm excited bored interested uninterested surprised shocked amazed disappointed hopeful hopeless optimistic pessimistic confident doubtful certain uncertain sure unsure possible impossible likely unlikely necessary sufficient desirable undesirable beneficial detrimental advantageous disadvantageous profitable unprofitable valuable worthless meaningful meaningless permanent temporary lasting fleeting enduring ephemeral eternal infinite finite measurable imme

In demographics , the rank mobility index ( RMI ) is a measure of a city 's change in population rank among a group of cities .   Formally   where   R1 = city 's rank at time 1  R2 = city 's rank at time 2   A RMI value must be between − 1 and 1 . A RMI of 0 indicates no change .   Category : Index numbers

Relocation , also known as moving , is the process of vacating a fixed location ( such as a residence or business ) and settling in a different one . A move can be to a nearby location within the same neighborhood , a much farther location in a different city , or sometimes a different country .  It usually includes packing up all belongings , transferring to the new home , and unpacking , as well as administrative or bureaucratic tasks , such as changing registration data , change of insurance , services etc. .

A remote and isolated community is one that either is a long distance from highly populated settlements or lacks transportation links that are typical in more populated areas . The definition of what is `` remote '' or `` isolated '' varies substantially between regions of the world . Defining and identifying remote and isolated communities is often done by governments so that special considerations can be made to provide services to these difficult-to-reach places .   In responding to the avian flu outbreak of 2009 , a Canadian government body ( the Remote and Isolated Task Group -LSB- RITG -RSB- of the Public Health Network H1N1 Task Force ) published the following working definitions :   In the above quote , the definition of isolated is borrowed from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada ( INAC ) and the definition of remote is borrowed from Health Canada .   Canada also has fly-in communities that lack road , rail , or water connections and rely entirely on bush aviation . Other remote communities lack road and rail but have water access , such as the Newfoundland outports , and those that have road access part of the year on ice roads , or can only be reached by gravel road . One academic measure of remoteness used in Canada is `` nordicity '' .   The Australian Bureau of Statistics classifies its communities according to a `` remoteness structure '' , with six categories : Major Cities of Australia , Inner Regional Australia , Outer Regional Australia , Remote Australia , Very Remote Australia and Migratory .

A Dewey is a hill or mountain in England or Wales over 500 metres ( 1,640 feet ) in elevation , but below 2,000 feet ( 609.6 metres ) , with a relative height of at least 30 metres ( 98 feet ) . The list was compiled by Michael Dewey and published in his book Mountain Tables .   There have many changes to the original list resulting from remapping and surveying . As of 15 December 2013 , 57 new hills have been added , 14 have been deleted , 3 replaced by a neighbouring summit , and 4 relocated to a significantly different grid reference

is a city located in Miyazaki Prefecture , Japan . The city was founded on November 3 , 1954 .   As of April 1 , 2017 , the city has an estimated population of 18,179 and a population density of 62 persons per km ² . The total area is 294.91 km ² .   The city is served by the Nichinan Line of the JR Kyūshū railway system , which links it to the west to Shibushi in neighbouring Kagoshima Prefecture and to the north to the prefectural capital , Miyazaki .   Within the boundaries of the municipality ( but some distance from its main built-up areas ) lies the island of Kōjima , known for the field studies site of the Primate Research Institute , where studies on wild-living Japanese macaque monkeys are carried out .

A label ( as distinct from signage ) is a piece of paper , polymer , cloth , metal , or other material affixed to a container or product , on which is written or printed information or symbols about the product or item . Information printed directly on a container or article can also be considered labeling .   Labels have many uses , including providing information on a product 's origin , manufacturer ( e.g. , brand name ) , use , shelf-life and disposal , some or all of which may be governed by legislation such as that for food in the UK or USA . Methods of production and attachment to packaging are many and various and may also be subject to internationally recognised standards . In many countries , hazardous products such as poisons or flammable liquids must have a warning label .

LaGrange is a city and the county seat of Troup County , Georgia , United States . The population of the city was estimated to be 30,452 in 2013 by the U.S. Census Bureau . It is the principal city of the LaGrange , Georgia Micropolitan Statistical Area , which is included in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville , Georgia-Alabama ( part ) Combined Statistical Area . It is about 60 miles southwest of Atlanta and located in the foothills of the Georgia Piedmont .   LaGrange is home to LaGrange College , the oldest private college in the state . Started as a girls ' academy , it has been affiliated since the late 19th century with the Methodist Church , and what is now the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church . The city 's proximity to West Point Lake , a few miles to the west , helps attract bass fishermen and water sports enthusiasts to the city .   The Troup County Courthouse , Annex , and Jail , built in 1939 , is one of LaGrange 's properties that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places .

Daylight saving time ( abbreviated DST ) , also sometimes erroneously referred to as daylight savings time , is the practice of advancing clocks during summer months so that evening daylight lasts longer , while sacrificing normal sunrise times . Typically , regions that use daylight saving time adjust clocks forward one hour close to the start of spring and adjust them backward in the autumn to standard time .   American inventor and politician Benjamin Franklin proposed a form of daylight time in 1784 . He wrote an essay `` An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light '' to the editor of The Journal of Paris , suggesting , somewhat jokingly , that Parisians could economize candle usage by getting people out of bed earlier in the morning , making use of the natural morning light instead . New Zealander George Hudson proposed the idea of daylight saving in 1895 . The German Empire and Austria-Hungary organized the first nationwide implementation , starting on April 30 , 1916 . Many countries have used it at various times since then , particularly since the energy crisis of the 1970s .   The practice has both advocates and critics . Some early proponents of DST aimed to reduce evening use of incandescent lighting -- once a primary use of electricity -- today 's heating and cooling usage patterns differ greatly , and research about how DST affects energy use is limited and contradictory .   DST clock shifts sometimes complicate timekeeping and can disrupt travel , billing , record keeping , medical devices , heavy equipment , and sleep patterns . Computer software often adjusts clocks automatically , but policy changes by various jurisdictions of DST dates and timings may be confusing .

The demographics of Russia is about the demographic features of the population of the Russian Federation including population growth , population density , ethnic composition , education level , health , economic status and other aspects .   As of 1 January 2017 , the population of Russia is 144,498,215 excluding Crimea , whose annexation is not recognized by the overwhelming majority of the international community . Including Crimea and Sevastopol , the population was 146,804,372 on January 1 , 2017 .   As of 2015 , Russian TFR of 1.777 children per woman was the highest in Eastern , Southern and Central Europe . In 2013 , Russia experienced the first natural population growth since 1990 at 22,700 .   According to the 2010 census , ethnic Russians make up 81 % of the total population . This share remained steady over the last few decades . Six other ethnicities have a population exceeding 1 million -- Tatars ( 3.9 % ) , Ukrainians ( 1.4 % ) , Bashkir ( 1.1 % ) , Chuvash ( 1 % ) , Chechens ( 1 % ) and Armenians ( 0.9 % ) . In total , 160 different ethnic groups live within the Russian Federation 's borders .   Russia 's population density is 8.4 people per square kilometre ( 22 per square mile ) , making it one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world . The population is most dense in the European part of the country , with milder climate , centering on Moscow and Saint Petersburg . 74 % of the population is urban , making Russia a highly urbanized country .

Devil 's Night is a name associated with October 30 , the night before Halloween . It is related to the `` Mischief night '' practiced in parts of the United States , but is chiefly associated with the serious vandalism and arson seen in Detroit , Michigan from the 1970s to the 1990s , finally prompting the `` Angels ' Night '' community response .


Question:
 Although certain areas experienced remarkably high temperatures during the Little Ice Age's counterpart, the Medieval Warm Period, overall Earth’s climate remained less heated compared with today's escalating warmth levels.
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 Understanding Historical Temperature Fluctuations: A Closer Look at the Medieval Warm Period
During historical epochs, particularly within the context of the Medieval Warm Period spanning approximately from AD 950-1250, certain geographical zones experienced notably warmer climates compared to preceding centuries. This phenomenon wasn't confined solely to Europe; evidence suggests concurrent shifts across various continents, encompassing East Asia among others. Yet, despite regional anomalies showcasing elevated heat levels akin—or even superior—to contemporary benchmarks, comprehensive analyses reveal that overall planetary averages remained below modern-day standards throughout this era. Contrary to popular misconceptions implying universal thermal homogeneity, available proxy indicators—ranging from tree rings to sediment cores—demonstrate significant variability both spatially and temporally. Consequently, while specific locales might've rivaled twenty-first-century warmth intermittently, aggregated datasets unequivocally indicate lower mean temperatures when considering broader spatiotemporal scales. Potential drivers behind medieval-era heating episodes remain subjects of ongoing scholarly debate, encompassing hypotheses involving enhanced solar irradiance, reduced atmospheric aerosol concentrations stemming from diminished volcanic eruptions frequency/intensity, alongside alterations to thermohaline circulation dynamics.

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Deliberately causing death through the effects of combustion , or effects of exposure to extreme heat , has a long history as a form of painful capital punishment . Many societies have employed it as an execution method for activities considered criminal such as treason , rebellious actions by slaves , heresy , witchcraft and sexual transgressions , such as incest or homosexuality . The best known type of executions of death by burning is when the condemned is bound to a large wooden stake ( this is usually called burning at the stake , or in some cases , auto-da-fé ) , but other forms of death resulting from exposure to extreme heat are known . For example , pouring substances such as molten metal onto a person ( or down their throat or into their ears ) , as well as enclosing persons within , or attaching them to , metal contraptions subsequently heated . Immersion in a heated liquid as a form of execution is considered distinct from death by burning , and classified as death by boiling .   For burnings at the stake , if the fire was large ( for instance , when a number of prisoners were executed at the same time ) , death often came from carbon monoxide poisoning before flames actually caused lethal harm to the body . If the fire was small , however , the condemned would burn for some time until death from hypovolemia ( the loss of blood and/or fluids , since extensive burns often require large amounts of intravenous fluid , because the subsequent inflammatory response causes significant capillary fluid leakage and oedema ) , heatstroke and/or simply the thermal decomposition of vital body parts .

Lady Jane Grey , also known as Lady Jane Dudley or the Nine-Day Queen , was an English noblewoman and de facto monarch of England and Ireland from 10 July until 19 July 1553 .   The great-granddaughter of Henry VII through his younger daughter Mary , Jane was a first cousin once removed of Edward VI . In May 1553 , she was married to Lord Guildford Dudley , a younger son of Edward 's chief minister , John Dudley , Duke of Northumberland . When the 15-year-old king lay dying in June 1553 , he nominated Jane as successor to the Crown in his will , thus subverting the claims of his half-sisters Mary and Elizabeth under the Third Succession Act . Jane was imprisoned in the Tower of London when the Privy Council decided to change sides and proclaim Mary as queen on 19 July 1553 . Jane was convicted of high treason in November 1553 , which carried a sentence of death , although her life was initially spared . Wyatt 's rebellion of January and February 1554 against Queen Mary I 's plans to marry Philip of Spain led to the execution of both Jane and her husband .   Lady Jane Grey had an excellent humanist education and a reputation as one of the most learned young women of her day . A committed Protestant , she was posthumously regarded as not only a political victim but also a martyr .

The 1756 cricket season was the 159th in England since the earliest known definite reference to cricket in January 1597 ( i.e. , Old Style -- 1598 New Style ) . Details have survived of five important eleven-a-side and one single wicket matches . The season may be said to mark the beginning of the so-called `` Hambledon Era '' . The Hambledon team , then probably run by a parish organisation rather than the famous club which is believed to have been formed in about 1765 , makes its first recorded appearances in three matches against Dartford .   The Seven Years ' War began in 1756 and ended in 1763 . It is possible this reduced the number of `` great matches '' , as did the Napoleonic and the two World Wars later . It is probable that cricket 's first bowling revolution occurred sometime between 1756 and 1763 . Bowlers were certainly pitching the ball by 1770 , but there are no surviving reports to describe the reception that pitching had when it was tried and implemented .

The Byzantine Empire ( the Eastern Roman Empire during the medieval period , after the fall of the Western Roman Empire ) following the crisis of the Gothic Wars managed to re-establish itself in a golden age under the Justinian dynasty in the 6th century , and during the Early Middle Ages it continued to flourish even after the Muslim conquest of the Levant and the constant threat of Arab invasion .   But in the High Middle Ages , under pressure from the Seljuk Empire , it entered a period of continuous decline . After the Battle of Manzikert ( 1071 ) it lost control of Anatolia , and while the Crusades provided a respite from the threat of Islamic expansion during the 12th century , the empire was captured by the Crusaders themselves in the Fourth Crusade in 1204 .   Even after Roman rule was restored in 1261 , the empire was now a shadow of its former self , and after the end of the Crusades , the empire had little to set against the rise of the Ottoman Empire during the late medieval period , and was eventually destroyed with the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 .

A diminutive is a word which has been modified to convey a slighter degree of its root meaning , to convey the smallness of the object or quality named , or to convey a sense of intimacy or endearment . A ( abbreviated ) is a word-formation device used to express such meanings ; in many languages , such forms can be translated as `` little '' and diminutives can also be formed as multi-word constructions such as `` Tiny Tim '' . Diminutives are used frequently when speaking to small children or when expressing extreme tenderness and intimacy to an adult . As such , they are often employed for nicknames and pet names . The opposite of the diminutive form is the augmentative .   In many languages , formation of diminutives by adding suffixes is a productive part of the language . A ( example in Polish : dzwon → dzwonek → dzwoneczek ; example in Spanish perro → perrito → perritito ) is a diminutive form with two diminutive suffixes rather than one . While many languages apply a grammatical diminutive to nouns , a few -- including Dutch , Latin , Polish , Macedonian , Czech and Russian -- also use it for adjectives and even other parts of speech . In English the alteration of meaning is often conveyed through clipping , making the words shorter and more colloquial . Diminutives formed by adding affixes in other languages are often longer and not necessarily understood as colloquial . Some languages can form even triple diminutives .   In some contexts , diminutives are also employed in a pejorative sense , to denote that someone or something is weak or childish . For example , one of the last of the Western Roman emperors was named Romulus Augustus , but this was diminuted to `` Romulus Augustulus '' to express his powerlessness .

The 16th century begins with the Julian year 1501 and ends with either the Julian or the Gregorian year 1600 ( depending on the reckoning used ; the Gregorian calendar introduced a lapse of 10 days in October 1582 ) .   It is regarded by historians as the century in which the rise of the West occurred .  During the 16th century , Spain and Portugal explored the world 's seas and opened worldwide oceanic trade routes . Large parts of the New World became Spanish and Portuguese colonies , and while the Portuguese became the masters of Asia 's and Africa 's Indian Ocean trade , the Spanish opened trade across the Pacific Ocean , linking the Americas with Asia .   This era of colonialism established mercantilism as the leading school of economic thought , where the economic system was viewed as a zero-sum game in which any gain by one party required a loss by another . The mercantilist doctrine encouraged the many intra-European wars of the period and arguably fueled European expansion and imperialism throughout the world until the 19th century or early 20th century .   In Europe , the Protestant Reformation gave a major blow to the authority of the papacy and the Roman Catholic Church . European politics became dominated by religious conflicts , with the groundwork for the epochal Thirty Years ' War being laid towards the end of the century . In Italy , Luca Pacioli published the first work ever on accounting and Galileo Galilei made the first thermometer . In England , the Italian Alberico Gentili wrote the first book on public international law and divided secularism from canon law and Roman Catholic theology .   In the Middle East , the Ottoman Empire continued to expand , with the Sultan taking the title of Caliph , while dealing with a resurgent Persia . Iran and Iraq were caught by major popularity of the once-obscure Shiite sect of Islam under the rule of the Safavid dynasty of warrior-mystics , providing grounds for a Persia independent of the majority-Sunni Muslim world .   China evacuated the coastal areas , because of Japanese piracy . Japan was suffering a severe civil war at the time .   Mughal Emperor Akbar extended the power of the Mughal Empire to cover most of the South Asian sub continent . His rule significantly influenced arts , and culture in the region .   Copernicus proposed the heliocentric universe , which was met with strong resistance , and Tycho Brahe refuted the theory of celestial spheres through observational measurement of the 1572 appearance of a Milky Way supernova . These events directly challenged the long-held notion of an immutable universe supported by Ptolemy and Aristotle , and led to major revolutions in astronomy and science .

The Iran Blizzard of February 1972 resulted in the deaths of approximately 4,000 people . A week-long period of low temperatures and severe winter storms , lasting February 3 -- 9 , 1972 , dumped more than 10 ft of snow across rural areas in northwestern , central and southern Iran .   Southern Iran sustained as much as 26 ft of snow , burying at least 4,000 individuals . According to contemporary reports by the newspaper Ettela'at , the city of Ardakan and outlying villages were hardest hit , with no survivors in Kakkan or Kumar . In the northwest , near the border with Turkey , the village of Sheklab and its 100 inhabitants were buried .   This blizzard remains the deadliest in history .

The Reconquista was the gradual military retaking ( `` reconquering '' ) of the Iberian Peninsula from the Moors .   Reconquista may also refer to :   Bloodless reconquest , the restoration of colonial government in Spanish New Mexico following the Pueblo Revolt of 1680  Reconquista ( Spanish America ) , restoration of Spanish colonial possession in the New World , typically control of colonial governments loyal to Ferdinand VII of Spain following the Peninsular War in Europe  Reconquista ( Chile ) , restoration of Spanish colonial possession of Chile during the War of Independence  Reconquista ( Colombia ) , restoration of Spanish colonial possession following a rebellion in what is now Colombia  Santo Domingo / Dominican Republic :  Reconquista ( Santo Domingo ) , restoration of Spanish colonial possession of Santo Domingo following a period of French occupation  Spanish occupation of the Dominican Republic , retaking of the former colony by Spain 17 years after it gained independence  Reconquista ( Portuguese colonies ) , restoration of Portuguese colonial possession ( or joint Portuguese and Spanish rule ) following periods of Dutch occupation  Reconquista ( Angola )  Reconquista ( Bahia )  Reconquista ( Recife )  Reconquista ( Mexico ) , a modern irredentist movement advocating the restoration of Mexican control over territory now part of the United States

The lateralization of brain function is the tendency for some neural functions or cognitive processes to be more dominant in one hemisphere than the other . The medial longitudinal fissure separates the human brain into two distinct cerebral hemispheres , connected by the corpus callosum . Although the macrostructure of the two hemispheres appears to be almost identical , different composition of neuronal networks allows for specialized function that is different in each hemisphere .   Lateralization of brain structures is based on general trends expressed in healthy patients ; however , there are numerous counterexamples to each generalization . Each human 's brain develops differently leading to unique lateralization in individuals . This is different from specialization as lateralization refers only to the function of one structure divided between two hemispheres . Specialization is much easier to observe as a trend since it has a stronger anthropological history . The best example of an established lateralization is that of Broca 's and Wernicke 's areas where both are often found exclusively on the left hemisphere . These areas frequently correspond to handedness however , meaning the localization of these areas is regularly found on the hemisphere corresponding to the dominant hand ( anatomically on the opposite side ) . Function lateralization such as semantics , intonation , accentuation , prosody , etc. has since been called into question and largely been found to have a neuronal basis in both hemispheres .

Retrograde amnesia ( RA ) is a loss of memory-access to events that occurred , or information that was learned , before an injury or the onset of a disease . It tends to negatively affect episodic , autobiographical , and declarative memory while usually keeping procedural memory intact with no difficulty for learning new knowledge . RA can be temporally graded or more permanent based on the severity of its cause and is usually consistent with Ribot 's Law : where subjects are more likely to lose memories closer to the traumatic incident than more remote memories . The type of information that is forgotten can be very specific , like a single event , or more general , resembling generic amnesia . It is not to be confused with anterograde amnesia , which deals with the inability to form new memories following the onset of an injury or disease .


Question: Presently, researchers have observed evidence of climate change on Mars, indicating signs of significant temperature increases across the planet's surface, which has been termed as Martian global heating.

 Martian Climate Change: A Parallel Universe?
Recent studies suggest that Mars has undergone significant climate changes akin to those observed on Earth, leading some experts to propose the concept of "Martian warming." Scientists hypothesize that billions of years ago, up to one-third of Mars' surface might have been submerged under vast oceans—referred to as the Paleo-Oceans or Oceanus Borealis—that occupied low-lying areas predominantly found within the Northern Hemisphere’s expansive Vastitas Borealis Basin. These regions sit roughly 4–5 kilometers (approximately 2.5 – 3 miles) lower than average planetary elevations. Researchers estimate that this watery epoch occurred around 4.1 - 3.8 billion years ago during Mars’ formative stages.
Evidence supporting the existence of these ancient seas comes from various angles; topographical formations reminiscent of old coastlines, alongside geochemical analyses revealing clues about past atmospheric conditions and Martian terrain composition. To sustain liquid H2O on its surface back then, Mars likely boasted thicker air layers coupled with milder temperatures compared to current frigid extremes. Understanding how Mars transitioned through different climates could shed light on both terrestrial and extraterrestrial weather phenomena alike.

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Reta F. Beebe ( born October 10 , 1936 in Baca County Colorado ) is an American astronomer , author , and popularizer of astronomy . She is an expert on the planets Jupiter and Saturn , and the author of Jupiter : The Giant Planet . She is a professor emeritus in the Astronomy Department at New Mexico State University and 2010 winner of the NASA Exceptional Public Service medal .   Beebe spent many years helping to plan and manage NASA missions , including the Voyager program missions to the giant planets . Her specific research interest was the atmospheres of Jupiter , Saturn , Uranus , and Neptune . She designed experiments to the study and measure the clouds and winds of the giant planets . She worked interpreting the Galileo and Cassini data and used the Hubble Space Telescope to obtain additional atmospheric data on Jupiter and Saturn . She was a member of the Shoemaker/Levy team at the Space Telescope Science Institute in 1994 when the comet struck Jupiter . Formerly , she chaired the Committee for Planetary and Lunar Exploration ( COMPLEX ) , which is the principal space committee of the United States National Research Council . More recently she was involved with organizing the data about the giant planets in NASA 's Planetary Data System . She is in charge of the Atmospheres Discipline Node of that program . her planetary data archiving skills have also been employed by the European Space Agency . She serves on the steering committee of the International Planetary Data Alliance .

Denison Marrs was a U.S. indie rock band from Lakeland , Florida . They formed in 1995 originally under the name Divine Child , and released their first self-recorded and published EP Every Seven Minutes in 1998 . In March 1999 , the band signed a record deal with 6x6 Records and changed their name to Denison Marrs , citing conflicts with existing usages of `` Divine Child '' . The name `` Denison Marrs '' arose out of a misinterpretation of a Venus and Mars T-shirt one of the band members owned . ( Venus and Mars is an alternative clothing store near downtown Orlando , FL . )   Their first full-length album , Holding Hands @ 35,000 Ft , was released in July 1999 . Soon after , the band signed with Velvet Blue Music  and released another full-length album , a limited-edition 7 '' , and a split with Stavesacre . Among growing national popularity , the band then signed with Floodgate Records to release Then Is The New Now jointly with Velvet Blue . Their final eponymous album was also released by Floodgate in 2004 . The group disbanded in 2005 .

The Large Millimetre Telescope ( LMT ) ( Gran Telescopio Milimétrico , or GTM ) was inaugurated in Mexico on 22 November 2006 . It is the world 's largest single-aperture telescope in its frequency range , built for observing radio waves in the wave lengths from approximately 0.85 to 4 mm . It has an active surface with a diameter of 50 m and 1960 m2 of collecting area .   It is located within Chalchicomula de Sesma municipality , on top of the Sierra Negra , the fifth highest peak in Mexico and an extinct volcanic companion to Mexico 's highest mountain , the Pico de Orizaba , in the state of Puebla . Its construction took 10 years , and cost 116 million dollars . It is a binational Mexican ( 80 % ) -- American ( 20 % ) joint project of the Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica , Óptica y Electrónica ( INAOE ) and the University of Massachusetts Amherst .   Millimetre wavelength observations using the LMT will give astronomers a view of regions which are obscured by dust in the interstellar medium , thus increasing our knowledge about star formation . The telescope is also particularly fitted for observing solar system planetesimals and planets and extra-solar protoplanetary disks which are relatively cold and emit most of their radiation at millimetre wavelengths . There are also proposals for observing fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background as well as active galactic nuclei .

Richard Marsina ( 4 May 1923 , Šahy , Czechoslovakia ) is a Slovak historian , one of the founders of modern Slovak histography and a prominent expert on the medieval history of Slovakia . His scientific activities include research and publication of medieval sources , research of the oldest settlements in Slovakia , medieval towns , the history of Great Moravia , the Christianisation of Slovakia and of the Kingdom of Hungary and the oldest history of the Bishopric of Nitra . He worked in leading position at various scientific institutions like the Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences ( SAS ) , the Slovak Society for History , the Scientific Board for Historical Sciences , Trnava University in Trnava , the Department of History at Matica slovenská and others . In the 1960s , he also worked at the research institute of SAS in Budapest , was the secretary of the Czechoslovak section of the joint Czech-Slovak-Hungarian historical commission ( 1960 -- 1965 , 1971 -- 1983 ) , and the secretary of the board of experts at the commission on the sharing of cultural heritage with the Hungarian People 's Republic ( 1965 -- 1968 ) .

Reynolds Crater is an impact crater in the Mare Australe quadrangle of Mars , located at 75.1 ° S latitude and 157.9 ° W longitude . It is 97.5 km in diameter and was named after Osborne Reynolds , and the name was approved in 1973 by the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature ( WGPSN ) .

Retrograde motion is motion in the direction opposite to the movement of something else and the contrary of direct or prograde motion . This motion can be the orbit of one body about another body or about some other point , or the rotation of a single body about its axis , or other phenomena such as precession or nutation of the axis . In reference to celestial systems , retrograde motion usually means motion which is contrary to the rotation of the primary , that is , the object which forms the system 's hub .   In our Solar System , all of the planets and most of the other objects that orbit the Sun , with the exception of many comets , do so in the `` prograde '' direction , i.e. the same sense as the rotation of the Sun . Also the rotations of most planets are prograde , with the exceptions of Venus and Uranus , which have retrograde rotations . Most satellites of planets revolve around their planets in the prograde sense . ( In the case of the satellites of Uranus , this means they revolve in the same sense as Uranus 's rotation , which is retrograde relative to the Sun . ) There are some satellites which orbit in the retrograde sense , but these are generally small and distant from their planets , except for Neptune 's satellite Triton , which is large and close . It is thought that these retrograde satellites , including Triton , are bodies which have been captured into orbit around their planets , having been formed elsewhere .

Research balloons are balloons that are used for scientific research . They are usually ( though not always ) unmanned , filled with a lighter-than-air gas like helium , and fly at high altitudes .   Meteorology , atmospheric research , astronomy , and military research may be conducted from a research balloon .  Weather balloons are a type of research balloon . Research balloons usually study a single aspect of science , such as air pollution , air temperature , or wind currents , although sometimes several experiments or equipment are flown together .   Other than weather balloons , few research balloons are launched every year . This is driven by the large cost of the balloon , the instrument , which is usually custom made , and the cost of the launch . Because of the altitude reached by most research balloons , the air is too thin and too cold for humans to survive , therefore most research balloons are unmanned and operated remotely . There have been some balloons equipped with pressurized cabins , beginning with professor Auguste Piccard in the 1930s .   Research balloons are not only used on earth . With the help of a research balloon , the upper atmosphere of Venus was examined by the Vega program .

( also written 2000 BD19 ) is an asteroid with the smallest perihelion of any numbered asteroid ( 0.092 AU -- 38 % of Mercury 's orbital radius ) . With its high eccentricity , not only does get very close to the Sun , but it also travels relatively far away from it . It has the third largest aphelion of any numbered Aten asteroid and is one of a small group of Aten asteroids that is also a Mars grazer . Its orbital elements indicate that may be an extinct comet . It has n't been seen displaying cometary activity so far .   was discovered by LINEAR in January 2000 and was soon after located by DANEOPS on Palomar plates from February 10 , 1997 . This allowed a reasonably precise orbit determination , and as a result it was spotted again on February 27 , 2001 and January 21 , 2002 . When it was discovered , it beat 1995 CR 's record for both asteroid with the smallest perihelion and for Aten asteroid with the highest eccentricity .   It is estimated that 's surface temperature reaches ~ 920 K at perihelion , enough to melt lead and zinc , and nearly enough to melt aluminium . is considered a good candidate for measuring the effects of Albert Einstein 's general theory of relativity because of how close it comes to the Sun .

Data dredging ( also data fishing , data snooping , and p-hacking ) is the use of data mining to uncover patterns in data that can be presented as statistically significant , without first devising a specific hypothesis as to the underlying causality .   The process of data dredging involves automatically testing huge numbers of hypotheses about a single data set by exhaustively searching -- perhaps for combinations of variables that might show a correlation , and perhaps for groups of cases or observations that show differences in their mean or in their breakdown by some other variable . Conventional tests of statistical significance are based on the probability that a particular result would arise if chance alone were at work , and necessarily accept some risk of mistaken conclusions of a certain type ( mistaken rejections of the null hypothesis ) . This level of risk is called the significance . When large numbers of tests are performed , some produce false results of this type , hence 5 % of randomly chosen hypotheses turn out to be significant at the 5 % level , 1 % turn out to be significant at the 1 % significance level , and so on , by chance alone . When enough hypotheses are tested , it is virtually certain that some will be statistically significant but misleading , since almost every data set with any degree of randomness is likely to contain ( for example ) some spurious correlations . If they are not cautious , researchers using data mining techniques can be easily misled by these results .   The multiple comparisons hazard is common in data dredging . Moreover , subgroups are sometimes explored without alerting the reader to the number of questions at issue , which can lead to misinformed conclusions .

Lalande 21185 is a star in the constellation of Ursa Major , relevant for being the brightest red dwarf observable in the northern hemisphere ( only AX Microscopii and Lacaille 9352 , in the southern hemisphere , are brighter ) . Despite this , and although relatively close by , it is ( as all red dwarves ) very dim , being only magnitude 7.5 in visible light and thus too dim to be seen with the unaided eye . The star is visible through a small telescope or binoculars .   At approximately 8.31 ly away it is one of the nearest stars to the Solar System ; only the Alpha Centauri system , Barnard 's Star , and Wolf 359 and the brown dwarfs Luhman 16 and WISE 0855 − 0714 are known to be closer . Because of its proximity it is a frequent subject for astronomical surveys and other research and thus is known by numerous other designations . Research papers most commonly use the designations BD +36 2147 , Gliese 411 , and HD 95735 to refer to this star . In approximately 19,900 years Lalande 21185 will be at its closest distance of about 4.65 ly ( 1.43 pc ) from the Sun .


Question: Presently, researchers have uncovered evidence suggesting that Mars might be undergoing an equivalent of global warming in its climate system: Martian temperature rise.

 Martian Climate Change: Evidence of Warming Trends
Recent studies suggest that Mars might be undergoing significant changes akin to what we observe on Earth – planetary warming. Scientists examining data collected from various spacecraft orbiting Mars note rising temperatures near the red planet’s poles. Similar to Earth’s Arctic regions, Martian ice caps seem thinner than before, indicating possible shifts in the planet’s climate system. Researchers attribute this phenomenon partly to variations in solar radiation received during different parts of Mars’ elliptical orbit around the sun but increasingly point fingers at volcanic activity and dust storms as key contributors too. Just how much influence each factor holds remains under investigation; however, there appears little doubt now among experts studying Mars' environment closely enough to say confidently - something strange indeed seems happening up yonder!

While many questions remain unanswered regarding specific mechanisms behind observed trends (e.g., whether increased carbon dioxide levels play any role), evidence continues mounting suggesting complex interactions taking place within Martian ecosystems capable potentially leading down paths eerily familiar here back home where anthropogenic influences dominate headlines daily concerning global warming debates raging fiercely amongst politicians & policymakers alike trying desperately figure ways mitigate impending disasters looming ahead unless drastic action taken soon enough... And so goes another day spent pondering mysteries shrouding secrets hidden deep inside rocky worlds floating silently through vast cosmic oceans waiting patiently reveal themselves willing ears listen carefully enough hear whispers ancient civilizations long gone whisper tales forgotten eons ago lost forevermore save perhaps glimpses caught fleeting moments clarity pierce veils ignorance separating us understanding truth lies beyond stars shining brightly night skies reminding always look upwards dream big dreams chase impossible seeming goals heart desires nothing less greatness itself embodied fully realized form humanity striving reach heights unimaginable yet achievable together united common purpose greater good all concerned involved every step journey forward into unknown territories charted maps drawn blank pages awaiting filled ink pens dipped wells inspiration flowing freely without end until finally arrive destination sought after since beginning time immemorial quest eternal knowledge wisdom gained experience living lives fullest extent possible honor memory ancestors whose sacrifices paved way future generations follow suit building upon foundations laid centuries prior ensuring legacy preserved intact passed onto posterity enjoy fruits labor love bestowed unconditionally throughout ages come pass away peacefully knowing job done right mission accomplished goal achieved victory won against odds stacked high seemed insurmountable obstacles overcome adversity triumphantly standing tall proud proclaiming loudly clearly heard echoing chambers universe “We Did It!” Indeed you did my friends congratulations order day let celebrations commence forthwith shall they? Of course they will because deserve no less celebration marking momentous occasion history books record achievement worthy remembrance perpetuity sake mankind progress onward upward

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113 Amalthea is a fairly typical rocky main-belt asteroid orbiting in the inner regions of the belt . It was discovered by R. Luther on March 12 , 1871 . The name comes from Amalthea of Greek mythology . One of Jupiter 's inner small satellites , unrelated to 113 Amalthea , is also called Amalthea , as is an ( apparently fictional ) small Arjuna asteroid in Neal Stephenson 's 2015 novel Seveneves .   Amalthea is thought to be a fragment from the mantle of a Vesta-sized , 300 -- 600 km diameter parent body that broke up around one billion years ago , with the other major remnant being 9 Metis . The spectrum of 113 Amalthea reveals the presence of the mineral olivine , a relative rarity in the asteroid belt .

, also written 1998 OX4 , is an Apollo asteroid and a Mars crosser .  It was discovered on July 26 , 1998 , by the Spacewatch program and subsequently lost . It was re-discovered by the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking ( NEAT ) project on August 31 , 2002 , as . It was removed from the Sentry Risk Table on 8 August 2002 . It has a well determined orbit with an observation arc of more than 10 years . It is included in the Minor Planet Center list of Potentially Hazardous Asteroids ( PHAs ) as it comes to within 0.05 AU of Earth periodically .

Red mercury is a substance of uncertain composition purportedly used in the creation of nuclear bombs , as well as a variety of unrelated weapons systems . The existence of such substance has not been documented .   It is purported to be mercuric iodide , a poisonous , odorless , tasteless , water-insoluble scarlet-red powder that becomes yellow when heated above 126 ° C , due to a thermochromatic change in crystalline structure . However , samples of `` red mercury '' obtained from arrested would-be terrorists invariably consisted of nothing more than various red dyes or powders of little value , which may have been sold as part of a campaign intended to flush out potential nuclear smugglers .   The `` red mercury '' hoax was first reported in 1979 , and was commonly discussed in the media in the 1990s . Prices as high as $ 1,800,000 per kilogram were reported .

Regional effects of global warming are long-term significant changes in the expected patterns of average weather of a specific region due to global warming . The world average temperature is rising due to the greenhouse effect caused by increasing levels of greenhouse gases , especially carbon dioxide . When the global temperature changes , the changes in climate are not expected to be uniform across the Earth . In particular , land areas change more quickly than oceans , and northern high latitudes change more quickly than the tropics , and the margins of biome regions change faster than do their cores .   Regional effects of global warming vary in nature . Some are the result of a generalised global change , such as rising temperature , resulting in local effects , such as melting ice . In other cases , a change may be related to a change in a particular ocean current or weather system . In such cases , the regional effect may be disproportionate and will not necessarily follow the global trend . The increasing temperatures from greenhouse gases have been causing sea levels to rise for many years .   There are three major ways in which global warming will make changes to regional climate : melting or forming ice , changing the hydrological cycle ( of evaporation and precipitation ) and changing currents in the oceans and air flows in the atmosphere . The coast can also be considered a region , and will suffer severe impacts from sea level rise .

In planetary astronomy and astrobiology , the Rare Earth Hypothesis argues that the origin of life and the evolution of biological complexity such as sexually reproducing , multicellular organisms on Earth ( and , subsequently , human intelligence ) required an improbable combination of astrophysical and geological events and circumstances . The hypothesis argues that complex extraterrestrial life is a very improbable phenomenon and likely to be extremely rare . The term `` Rare Earth '' originates from Rare Earth : Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe ( 2000 ) , a book by Peter Ward , a geologist and paleontologist , and Donald E. Brownlee , an astronomer and astrobiologist , both faculty members at the University of Washington .   An alternative view point was argued in the 1970s and 1980s by Carl Sagan and Frank Drake , among others . It holds that Earth is a typical rocky planet in a typical planetary system , located in a non-exceptional region of a common barred-spiral galaxy . Given the principle of mediocrity ( in the same vein as the Copernican principle ) , it is probable that the universe teems with complex life . Ward and Brownlee argue to the contrary : that planets , planetary systems , and galactic regions that are as friendly to complex life as are the Earth , the Solar System , and our region of the Milky Way are very rare .

( 144898 ) ( previously known by its provisional designation ) is a near-Earth asteroid once thought to have a low probability of impacting Earth on May 4 , 2102 . From February to May 2006 , it was listed with a Torino Scale impact risk value of 2 , only the second asteroid in risk-monitoring history to be rated above value 1 . The Torino rating was lowered to 1 after additional observations on May 20 , 2006 , and finally dropped to 0 on October 17 , 2006 . It was removed from the Sentry Risk Table on 14 February 2008 .   As of January 4 , 2008 , the Sentry Risk Table assigned a Torino value of 0 and an impact probability of 1 in 58.8 million for May 4 , 2102 . This value was far below the background impact rate of objects this size .   was discovered on November 7 , 2004 , by the NASA-funded LINEAR asteroid survey . The object is estimated by NASA 's Near Earth Object Program Office to be 580 meters in diameter with an approximate mass of 2.6 × 1011 kg .   It will pass 0.02 AU from the Earth on May 1 , 2032 , allowing a refinement to the orbit .   Being ~ 580 meters in diameter , if were to impact land , it would create an impact crater about 10 kilometres wide and generate an earthquake of magnitude 7.4 .

De-Loused in the Comatorium is the debut studio album by American progressive rock band The Mars Volta , released on June 24 , 2003 , on Gold Standard Laboratories and Universal Records . Based on a short story written by lead singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala and sound manipulation artist Jeremy Michael Ward , the concept album is an hour-long tale of Cerpin Taxt , a man who enters a week-long coma after overdosing on a mixture of morphine and rat poison . The story of Cerpin Taxt alludes to the death of El Paso , Texas artist -- and Bixler-Zavala 's friend -- Julio Venegas ( 1972 -- 1996 ) .   Co-produced by Rick Rubin and guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez , it is the only studio album to feature founding member Jeremy Michael Ward , who was found dead in an apparent heroin overdose one month before the album was released . Following the departure Eva Gardner who had appeared on the band 's early demos and EP , Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea performed on De-Loused .   The music contained in De-Loused is distinguished by its enigmatic lyrics , Latin and jazz rhythms , and Omar Rodríguez-López 's frenetic guitar riffs , which are often strongly dissonant . The title of this album is taken from the lyrics of the song `` Eunuch Provocateur '' on the band 's previous release , Tremulant ( meanwhile , `` Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt '' contains the title of Tremulant ) . The cover artwork is by Storm Thorgerson .

Ray Martin may refer to :   Ray Martin ( Australian footballer ) ( 1909 -- 1989 )  Ray Martin ( baseball ) ( 1925 -- 2013 ) , American baseball player  Ray Martin ( English footballer ) ( born 1945 ) , English association football player  Ray Martin ( orchestra leader ) , United Kingdom  Ray Martin ( politician ) ( born 1941 ) , Canadian politician and former leader of the Alberta New Democratic Party  Ray Martin ( pool player ) ( born 1936 ) , American pool player  Ray Martin ( television presenter ) ( born 1944 ) , Australian journalist

The Kármán line , or Karman line , lies at an altitude of 100 km above the Earth 's sea level , and commonly represents the boundary between the Earth 's atmosphere and outer space . This definition is accepted by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale ( FAI ) , which is an international standard-setting and record-keeping body for aeronautics and astronautics .   The line is named after Theodore von Kármán ( 1881 -- 1963 ) , a Hungarian-American engineer and physicist . He was active primarily in aeronautics and astronautics . He was the first to calculate that around this altitude , the atmosphere becomes too thin to support aeronautical flight , because a vehicle at this altitude would have to travel faster than orbital velocity to derive sufficient aerodynamic lift to support itself . The line is approximately at the turbopause , above which atmospheric gasses are not well-mixed . The mesopause atmospheric temperature minimum has been measured variously at 85 km or 100 km , which puts the line at or near the bottom of the thermosphere .


Question: Presently, researchers have uncovered evidence suggesting that Mars is undergoing significant climate change characterized by rising temperatures akin to our very own planet's global warming phenomenon: Martian temperature escalation.

 Martian Climate Change
Recent studies suggest that Mars has been undergoing significant climate changes reminiscent of those observed on Earth - specifically, Martian warming. Scientists speculate about various contributing factors behind this phenomenon, ranging from solar radiation fluctuations to volcanic eruptions affecting atmospheric composition. Just as we grapple with understanding terrestrial climate shifts, researchers now face challenges deciphering Martian weather patterns. Despite no definitive proof regarding existence of current life forms there, historical data hint at possible past habitability. Thus, exploring how Mars' environment evolves becomes crucial not only for astrobiology but also space exploration planning involving future human missions potentially establishing colonies amidst shifting conditions.

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Deglaciation describes the transition from full glacial conditions during ice ages , to warm interglacials , characterized by global warming and sea level rise due to change in continental ice volume ( IPCC AR5 ) . Thus , it refers to the retreat of a glacier , an ice sheet or frozen surface layer , and the resulting exposure of the Earth 's surface . The decline of the cryosphere due to ablation can occur on any scale from global to localized to a particular glacier . After the Last Glacial Maximum ( ca. 21k years ago ) , the last deglaciation begun , which lasted until the early Holocene .   The previous deglaciation took place between approximately 22ka until 11.5 ka . This occurred when there was an annual mean atmospheric temperature on the earth that increased by roughly 5 ° C , which was also accompanied by regional high-latitude warming that exceeded 10 ° C . This was also followed by noteworthy deep-sea and tropical-se warming , between about 1-2 ° C ( deep-sea ) and 2-4 ° C ( tropical sea ) . Not only did this warming occur , but the global hydrological budget also experienced noticeable changes and regional precipitation patters changed . As a result of all of this , the worlds main ice sheets , including the ones located in Eurasia , North America and parts of the Antarctic Ice Sheets melted . As a consequence , sea levels rose roughly 120 metres ) . These processes did not occur steadily , and they also did not occur at the same time .

David Marshall ( born 13 July 1968 ) is Professor of Physical Oceanography at the University of Oxford and head of the sub-department of Atmospheric , Oceanic and Planetary Physics . From 2008 to 2012 he was co-director of the 21st Century Ocean Institute within the Oxford Martin School . He was awarded the 2014 Appleton Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics for `` fundamental contributions to understanding the fluid dynamics of the global ocean circulation '' .   Marshall studied at Imperial College London and then spent three years as a post-doctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He returned to the UK to establish the Physical Oceanography Group at the University of Reading , before moving to the University of Oxford in 2007 .

110393 Rammstein is an asteroid ( officially a minor planet ) named after the German NDH-Metal band Rammstein . It was discovered by Jean-Claude Merlin .   ( 110393 ) Rammstein is in a 4.46-year elliptical orbit around the sun ranging in distance from 370.0 million km at perihelion to 440.7 million km at aphelion . The last perihelion passage occurred on 2011 Feb. 16.8 UT . The orbit is inclined by 12.1 degrees to the ecliptic plane . A telescope is required to see this minor planet as its maximum brightness is 1/48193 of the brightness of the faintest objects that can be seen with the naked eye .  The Minor Planet Center officially announced the naming of the minor planet on February 23 , 2006 .

Red Canyon is a canyon located in Fremont County , Wyoming in the United States of America . The uplift of the nearby Wind River Range 60 million years ago exposed sedimentary rocks that were eroded by streams . The canyon exposes a number of geologic formations including the Phosphoria Formation from the Permian Period and the Chugwater Formation from the Triassic Period . Oxidized iron deposits in the rocks give the canyon its name . Red Canyon Creek drains the canyon and feeds into the Little Popo Agie River at the northern end . The streams provide habitat for wildlife in an otherwise arid region .   There is evidence of over 10,000 years of human presence in the canyon , including the Shoshone and Washakie tribes which used it as a transportation corridor between South Pass and the Wind River Basin . White settlers arrived during the 1870s and established farms on the floor of the canyon which provided fresh fruit and grains for nearby miners at South Pass City and Atlantic City .   Today , much of the canyon floor is owned by the Nature Conservancy which maintains the land as a working ranch . The canyon is listed as a National Natural Landmark .

Deception Point is a 2001 techno-thriller novel by Dan Brown . The plot concerns a meteorite found within the Arctic Circle that may provide proof of extraterrestrial life , and attempts by the antagonists to prevent the evidence against it from becoming public .

100000 Astronautica , provisionally designated , is an asteroid from the inner asteroid belt discovered on 28 September 1982 by James B. Gibson at Palomar Observatory , California , United States .   The asteroid orbits the Sun at a distance of 1.7 -- 2.1 AU once every 2 years and 8 months ( 960 days ) . Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.09 and an inclination of 21 ° with respect to the ecliptic . As no precoveries were taken , the asteroid 's observation arc begins with its discovery observation in 1982 . It has an absolute magnitude of 16.9 .   This minor planet marked the milestone of the 100,000 th numbered minor planet in October 2005 . It was named in October 2007 , by the International Astronomical Union 's Committee on Small Body Nomenclature to recognize the 50th anniversary of the start of the Space Age , as marked by the launch of the Soviet Sputnik spacecraft into orbit on 4 October 1957 . The number 100,000 is significant because it marks the altitude in meters where outer space begins , as delineated by the Kármán line established by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale . The name ` Astronautica ' is Latin for ` star sailor ' .

Raptor is a family of cryogenic , methane-fueled rocket engines under development by SpaceX . The engines are specifically intended to power both high-performance lower and upper stages of the ITS launch vehicle , a part of a more extensive Interplanetary Transport System ( ITS ) championed by Elon Musk , that may provide technological and economic improvements in interplanetary spaceflight , particularly with respect to a long-term aim of colonizing Mars . The engine will be powered by densified liquid methane and liquid oxygen ( LOX ) , rather than the RP-1 kerosene and LOX used in all previous Falcon 9 rockets which use Merlin 1C & D engines . The earliest concepts for Raptor considered liquid hydrogen ( LH2 ) as fuel rather than methane .  The Raptor engine will have over three times the thrust of the Merlin 1D vacuum engine that powers the current Falcon 9 launch vehicle .   The broad Raptor concept `` is a highly reusable methane staged-combustion engine that will power the next generation of SpaceX launch vehicles designed for the exploration and colonization of Mars '' . According to Elon Musk , this design will be able to achieve full reusability of all rocket stages and , as a result , `` a two order of magnitude reduction in the cost of spaceflight '' .  A variety of Raptor engines will be used on both stages of the ITS launch vehicle , but also on the long-duration spacecraft used to support all aspects of the Interplanetary Transport System on-orbit . Both the ITS tanker -- a transport carrier of propellant cargo to Earth orbit -- and also the Interplanetary Spaceship -- a very long-duration carrier of both passengers and space cargo to interplanetary destinations , and which will also serve as both a descent and ascent vehicle at Mars -- will be powered by six vacuum-optimized Raptor rocket engines with three additional sea-level-nozzle Raptor engines to be used for maneuvering . The ITS booster stage will be powered by 42 Raptors . Unlike nearly all other launch vehicles or spacecraft , on all Earth-away launches , the long-duration spacecraft ( tanker or spaceship ) will also provide second-stage acceleration to orbital velocity ; all propulsion is provided by Raptor engines .   The engine development from 2009 to 2015 was funded exclusively by private investment by SpaceX , and not as a result of any funding from the US government . In January 2016 , SpaceX did agree with the US Air Force to take in defense department funding in order to develop a prototype of a new upper-stage variant of the Raptor engine designed for potential use as an upper stage on Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy , with SpaceX agreeing to fund at least on the same upper-stage development project , on a minimum 2:1 private-to-government funding basis .   In August 2016 , a development Raptor engine was shipped to their McGregor testing facility in Texas , where it is undergoing development testing .

There is also a Darwin crater on the moon and a Darwin crater on Mars  Darwin Crater is a suspected meteorite impact crater in Western Tasmania .   It is expressed as a rimless circular flat-floored depression , 1.2 km in diameter , within mountainous and heavily forested terrain 26 km south of Queenstown . It lies east of the West Coast Range and the former North Mount Lyell Railway formation , and just within the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park .   The crater was discovered by the geologist R. J. Ford in 1972 , after a search for the source of Darwin glass , an impact glass found over more than 400 km2 of southwestern Tasmania . Geophysical investigations and drilling have shown that the crater is filled with up to 230 m of breccia capped by Pleistocene lake sediments . Although definitive proof of an impact origin of the crater is lacking , the impact hypothesis is strongly supported by the relationship of the glass to the crater , as well as the stratigraphy and deformation of the crater-filling material .   If the crater is indeed the source of the glass , the age of Darwin Crater is 816,000 ± 7,000 years -- the age of Darwin glass as determined by argon dating methods .   A 2004 thesis from the University of Tasmania was focused specifically on the glass material origins   Carbonaceous inclusions have been found for the first time in Darwin glass : these have been shown to be biomarkers which survived the Darwin impact and are representative of plant species in the local ecosystem -- including cellulose , lignin , aliphatic biopolymer and protein remnants .

Destination Moon may refer to :   Destination Moon ( film ) , a 1950 American science fiction film  `` Destination Moon '' ( short story ) , a 1950 short story by Robert Heinlein  Destination Moon ( comics ) , the sixteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé  `` Destination Moon '' , a 1951 song composed by Marvin Fisher with lyrics by Roy Alfred , performed by the Ames Brothers , Deborah Cox , and others  Destination Moon , a 1958 album by the Ames Brothers  `` Destination : Moon / Angelica 's Birthday '' , a 1994 episode of the animated TV series Rugrats  `` Destination Moon '' , a song by They Might Be Giants from the 1994 album John Henry  Destination Moon ( album ) , a 2007 album by Deborah Cox  Destination Moon , a 2013 album by Deana Martin

Vityaz is a research vessel that was built in 1939 by Deutsche Schiff - und Maschinenbau AG , Bremen , Germany as Mars for Neptun Line , Bremen . She served with the Kriegsmarine during World War II and was seized by the United Kingdom in 1945 . She was renamed Empire Forth for the Ministry of War Transport ( MoWT ) .   She was allocated to the Soviet Union in 1946 under the terms of the Potsdam Agreement and renamed Equator and later renamed Admiral Makarov . She was renamed Vityaz in 1949 and was used as a research vessel . Retired in 1979 , she was preserved as a museum ship in 1982 .  __ FORCETOC __


Question: Presently, researchers have uncovered evidence suggesting that Mars might be undergoing an equivalent of global warming in its climate system: Martian temperature increase.

 Martian Climate Change: A Case Study
Recent scientific findings suggest that Mars might be undergoing significant changes akin to those observed on Earth - namely, planetary warming. Although less populated than discussions about Earth’s climate crisis, Martian warming has garnered attention among researchers who monitor shifts within our solar system. Like Earth, Mars possesses seasonal variations influenced by its axial tilt; however, recent data indicates anomalies beyond normal fluctuations. Scientists theorize various contributing factors, including cosmic dust accumulation affecting albedo (reflectivity), volcanic eruptions releasing gases, and possible long-term orbital adjustments impacting sunlight absorption. Understanding how Mars' thin carbon dioxide-dominated atmosphere responds offers valuable insights into comparative planetology – studying different worlds’ climates simultaneously enriches knowledge regarding universal physical laws governing celestial environments.

This response maintains comparable sentence structure, vocabulary level, thematic focus while addressing "Martian warming" directly related yet distinctively described compared to original input concerning general aspects of extraterrestrial atmospheres.

113 Amalthea is a fairly typical rocky main-belt asteroid orbiting in the inner regions of the belt . It was discovered by R. Luther on March 12 , 1871 . The name comes from Amalthea of Greek mythology . One of Jupiter 's inner small satellites , unrelated to 113 Amalthea , is also called Amalthea , as is an ( apparently fictional ) small Arjuna asteroid in Neal Stephenson 's 2015 novel Seveneves .   Amalthea is thought to be a fragment from the mantle of a Vesta-sized , 300 -- 600 km diameter parent body that broke up around one billion years ago , with the other major remnant being 9 Metis . The spectrum of 113 Amalthea reveals the presence of the mineral olivine , a relative rarity in the asteroid belt .

Lieutenant General Larry D. James , Ret . is the deputy director of NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory . He assumed his duties on Sep. 23 , 2013 . He acts as the Laboratory 's Chief Operating Officer responsible to the Director for the day-to-day management of JPL 's resources and activities . This includes managing the Laboratory 's solar system exploration , Mars , astronomy , physics , Earth science , interplanetary network programs , and all business operations . These activities employ 5000 scientists , engineers , technicians , and business support personnel , generating $ 1.8 billion in annual revenues . Prior to his current role , he served as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence , Surveillance and Reconnaissance , Headquarters USAF . Lt Gen James ' prior command was the 14th Air Force and Joint Functional Component Command for Space from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California . He has held numerous positions of leadership throughout the United States Air Force and has extensive experience with space issues .

The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite ( LCROSS ) was a robotic spacecraft operated by NASA . The mission was conceived as a low-cost means of determining the nature of hydrogen detected at the polar regions of the moon . Launched immediately after discovery of lunar water by Chandrayaan-1 , the main LCROSS mission objective was to further explore the presence of water ice in a permanently shadowed crater near a lunar polar region . It was successful in confirming water in the southern lunar crater Cabeus .   It was launched together with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ( LRO ) on June 18 , 2009 , as part of the shared Lunar Precursor Robotic Program , the first American mission to the Moon in over ten years . Together , LCROSS and LRO form the vanguard of NASA 's return to the Moon , and are expected to influence United States government decisions on whether or not to colonize the Moon .   LCROSS was designed to collect and relay data from the impact and debris plume resulting from the launch vehicle 's spent Centaur upper stage ( and data collecting Shepherding Spacecraft ) striking the crater Cabeus near the south pole of the Moon .   Centaur had nominal impact mass of 2,305 kg ( 5,081 lb ) , and an impact velocity of about 9000 km/h , releasing the kinetic energy equivalent of detonating approximately 2 tons of TNT ( 8.86 GJ ) .   LCROSS suffered a malfunction on August 22 , depleting half of its fuel and leaving very little fuel margin in the spacecraft .   Centaur impacted successfully on October 9 , 2009 , at 11:31 UTC . The Shepherding Spacecraft descended through Centaur 's ejectate plume , collected and relayed data , impacting six minutes later at 11:37 UTC .   Contrary to media reports at the time , neither the impact nor its dust cloud could be seen from Earth , using the naked eye or telescopes .

De-Loused in the Comatorium is the debut studio album by American progressive rock band The Mars Volta , released on June 24 , 2003 , on Gold Standard Laboratories and Universal Records . Based on a short story written by lead singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala and sound manipulation artist Jeremy Michael Ward , the concept album is an hour-long tale of Cerpin Taxt , a man who enters a week-long coma after overdosing on a mixture of morphine and rat poison . The story of Cerpin Taxt alludes to the death of El Paso , Texas artist -- and Bixler-Zavala 's friend -- Julio Venegas ( 1972 -- 1996 ) .   Co-produced by Rick Rubin and guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez , it is the only studio album to feature founding member Jeremy Michael Ward , who was found dead in an apparent heroin overdose one month before the album was released . Following the departure Eva Gardner who had appeared on the band 's early demos and EP , Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea performed on De-Loused .   The music contained in De-Loused is distinguished by its enigmatic lyrics , Latin and jazz rhythms , and Omar Rodríguez-López 's frenetic guitar riffs , which are often strongly dissonant . The title of this album is taken from the lyrics of the song `` Eunuch Provocateur '' on the band 's previous release , Tremulant ( meanwhile , `` Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt '' contains the title of Tremulant ) . The cover artwork is by Storm Thorgerson .

A Langmuir probe is a device used to determine the electron temperature , electron density , and electric potential of a plasma . It works by inserting one or more electrodes into a plasma , with a constant or time-varying electric potential between the various electrodes or between them and the surrounding vessel . The measured currents and potentials in this system allow the determination of the physical properties of the plasma .

Redox ( short for reduction -- oxidation reaction ) ( pronunciation : -LSB- ˈrɛdɒks -RSB- or -LSB- ˈriːdɒks -RSB- ) is a chemical reaction in which the oxidation states of atoms are changed . Any such reaction involves both a reduction process and a complementary oxidation process , two key concepts involved with electron transfer processes . Redox reactions include all chemical reactions in which atoms have their oxidation state changed ; in general , redox reactions involve the transfer of electrons between chemical species . The chemical species from which the electron is stripped is said to have been oxidized , while the chemical species to which the electron is added is said to have been reduced . It can be explained in simple terms :   Oxidation is the loss of electrons or an increase in oxidation state by a molecule , atom , or ion .  Reduction is the gain of electrons or a decrease in oxidation state by a molecule , atom , or ion .   As an example , during the combustion of wood , oxygen from the air is reduced , gaining electrons from the carbon . Although oxidation reactions are commonly associated with the formation of oxides from oxygen molecules , oxygen is not necessarily included in such reactions , as other chemical species can serve the same function .   The reaction can occur relatively slowly , as in the case of rust , or more quickly , as in the case of fire . There are simple redox processes , such as the oxidation of carbon to yield carbon dioxide ( CO2 ) or the reduction of carbon by hydrogen to yield methane ( CH4 ) , and more complex processes such as the oxidation of glucose ( C6H12O6 ) in the human body .

( 386454 ) 2008 XM is an outstandingly eccentric , sub-kilometer-sized asteroid , with one of the smallest known perihelions among all minor planets . It is classified as near-Earth object of the Apollo group and potentially hazardous asteroid , and measures approximately 370 meters in diameter . It was discovered on 2 December 2008 , by the U.S. LINEAR program at Lincoln Laboratory 's Experimental Test Site in Socorro , New Mexico .   The asteroid orbits the Sun at a distance of 0.1 -- 2.3 AU once every 16 months ( 494 days ) . Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.91 and an inclination of 5 ° with respect to the ecliptic . Due to its outstanding eccentricity , it is also a Mercury-crosser , Venus-crosser and Mars-crosser . It has the third-smallest perihelion of any numbered asteroid behind and . Its Earth minimum orbital intersection distance of 0.0047 AU corresponds to only 1.84 lunar distances .   According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA 's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer , the asteroid measures meters in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.128 . As of 2016 , the body 's composition and spectral type , as well as its rotation period and shape remains unknown .

A declaration of war is a formal act by which one state goes to war against another . The declaration is a performative speech act ( or the signing of a document ) by an authorized party of a national government , in order to create a state of war between two or more states .   The legality of who is competent to declare war varies between nations and forms of government . In many nations , that power is given to the head of state or sovereign . In other cases , something short of a full declaration of war , such as a letter of marque or a covert operation , may authorise war-like acts by privateers or mercenaries . The official international protocol for declaring war was defined in the Hague Convention ( III ) of 1907 on the Opening of Hostilities .   Since 1945 , developments in international law such as the United Nations Charter , which prohibits both the threat and the use of force in international conflicts , have made declarations of war largely obsolete in international relations . In addition to this , non-state or terrorist organizations may claim to or be described as `` declaring war '' when engaging in violent acts . These declarations may have no legal standing in themselves , but they may still act as a call to arms for supporters of these organizations .

A day is a unit of time . In common usage , it is either an interval equal to 24 hours or daytime , the consecutive period of time during which the Sun is above the horizon . The period of time during which the Earth completes one rotation with respect to the Sun is called a solar day . Several definitions of this universal human concept are used according to context , need and convenience . In 1960 , the second was redefined in terms of the orbital motion of the Earth , and was designated the SI base unit of time . The unit of measurement `` day '' , redefined in 1960 as 86 400 SI seconds and symbolized d , is not an SI unit , but is accepted for use with SI . A civil day is usually 86 400 seconds , plus or minus a possible leap second in Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) , and occasionally plus or minus an hour in those locations that change from or to daylight saving time . The word day may also refer to a day of the week or to a calendar date , as in answer to the question , `` On which day ? '' The life patterns of humans and many other species are related to Earth 's solar day and the day-night cycle ( see circadian rhythms ) .   In recent decades the average length of a solar day on Earth has been about 86 400.002 seconds ( 24.000 000 6 hours ) and there are about 365.242 2 solar days in one mean tropical year . Because celestial orbits are not perfectly circular , and thus objects travel at different speeds at various positions in their orbit , a solar day is not the same length of time throughout the orbital year . A day , understood as the span of time it takes for the Earth to make one entire rotation  with respect to the celestial background or a distant star ( assumed to be fixed ) , is called a stellar day . This period of rotation is about 4 minutes less than 24 hours ( 23 hours 56 minutes and 4.1 seconds ) and there are about 366.242 2 stellar days in one mean tropical year ( one stellar day more than the number of solar days ) . Mainly due to tidal effects , the Earth 's rotational period is not constant , resulting in further minor variations for both solar days and stellar `` days '' . Other planets and moons have stellar and solar days of different lengths to Earth 's .

Deception Point is a 2001 techno-thriller novel by Dan Brown . The plot concerns a meteorite found within the Arctic Circle that may provide proof of extraterrestrial life , and attempts by the antagonists to prevent the evidence against it from becoming public .