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What is returning to earth through the atmosphere is called?
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Reentry.
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When heat from the sun comes through the atmosphere and heats earth is called what?
This type of heat transfer is called radiation.
Why does a spacecraft does not burns when it move from earth to space but it burns while returning from there?
When a spacecraft goes into space its speed increases dramatically once it leave the earths atmosphere. When it is returning to earth, it hits the atmosphere at a faster rate than it was traveling when it left. The friction of the atmosphere against the craft, heats it up.
What is a rock that falls from outer space?
If it burns up in the atmosphere, it is a meteor. If it manages to make it through the atmosphere and land on Earth, it is a meteorite. A really bright meteor is called a bollide.
A fragment of space matter burning in Earth's atmosphere?
A meteor. Technically, "meteor" is the fiery trail of the space rock as it falls. If the rock survives passing through the atmosphere, the rock (or fragments of it) are called "meteorites".
How do meteors orbit the sun?
Meteors do not orbit the Sun. Meteors are to be found/seen in the Earth's atmosphere burning up. Before they enter the Earths atmosphere they are called meteoroids and if they land on Earth they are called meteorites.
Returning to earth through the atmosphere is called?
Re-entry. Kind of anticlimactic, isn't it?
What is a meteroid that enters earths atmosphere?
When a meteoroid enters the Earth's atmosphere, it is called a meteor. A meteor that passes through the atmosphere and strikes the ground is called a meteorite.
Description of the water cycle?
The water cycle is the circulation of the earth's water, in which water evaporates from the sea into the atmosphere, where it condenses and falls as rain or snow, returning to the sea by rivers or returning to the atmosphere by evaporation.
What is a large rock in outer space called?
... compresses the air in front and around it so that the air glows and at night you see a "shooting star" - a meteor. If it impacts the ground before evaporating, it is a bolide and may leave a mineral remnant called a meteorite.
How does a rocket reenter the earth atmosphere?
The Earth's atmosphere is just gas, just like an airplane can get through clouds, a rocket can get through the Earth's atmosphere.
When heat from the sun comes through the atmosphere and heats earth is called what?
This type of heat transfer is called radiation.
What is the air that surrounds the earth called?
It is called the Atmosphere.
Why does a spacecraft does not burns when it move from earth to space but it burns while returning from there?
When a spacecraft goes into space its speed increases dramatically once it leave the earths atmosphere. When it is returning to earth, it hits the atmosphere at a faster rate than it was traveling when it left. The friction of the atmosphere against the craft, heats it up.
An element that is cycled through the atmosphere?
Phosphorus is not cycled through the Earth's atmosphere.
What gas is around the earth?
That is called atmosphere.That is called atmosphere.That is called atmosphere.That is called atmosphere.
What is a piece of solar system debris that passes through Earth's atmosphere and strikes the ground called?
That's called a meteorite.
When a rock falls from outer space all the way to the ground is called?
A meteoroid is space debris that is made up of rock. A meteoroid that enters Earth's atmosphere and burns up is called a meteor. A meteorite is a meteor that survives the fall through Earth's atmosphere.
