How to Use dayside in a Sentence

dayside

noun
  • In this case, the temperature difference isn't a large one, meaning that heat likely flows from the dayside to the nightside.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 Jan. 2020
  • The exoplanet’s dayside is scorching, while its space-facing hemisphere sits out in the cold.
    Adam Mann, Scientific American, 19 Aug. 2019
  • There, the molecules come together once more to form water before being shoved over to the dayside again.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Gudipati suspects that this glowing effect occurs all across Europa, but is likely too dim to spot in the sun’s glare on the moon’s dayside.
    Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Here, the dark sides of these planets are in perpetual night, and the warming effect wins out, whereas on the dayside, the cooling effect wins out.
    Fox News, 10 June 2020
  • The water atoms are ripped apart by the blazing hot temperatures experienced by the planet on the dayside.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 21 Feb. 2022
  • These planets are tidally locked, so that the same side always faces the star, and depending on how much the heat gets redistributed, the dayside can be much hotter than the nightside.
    John Wenz, Ars Technica, 22 Dec. 2019
  • The process repeats when the unfortunate molecules return to the dayside.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 Jan. 2020
  • As a result, the magnetic field on the dayside of our planet receives a little extra boost, while the nightside is slightly weaker.
    National Geographic, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Our programming teams will see some reductions in show staffs and, in some cases, the combination of teams for our dayside and weekend lineups.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Dec. 2022
  • With such a close orbit, the planet is almost certainly tidally locked, meaning one side of the planet always faces the star, creating a dayside and a nightside.
    Jay Bennett, Smithsonian, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Forty-four minutes before closest approach, the radiometers began to scan Venus’s dayside.
    David S. F. Portree, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2014
  • But in Way and Del Genio's model, a giant cloud on the dayside would act as a bright shield to reflect incoming sunlight and allow temperatures cool enough for liquid water.
    Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 13 July 2020
  • And this scorching radiation vaporizes iron on the dayside.
    Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Its dayside would look orangeish, so hot that complex molecules can't stay together and only 2,000 degrees cooler than our sun.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 June 2017
  • The researchers believe that the dayside's blazing temperatures, which are hot enough to turn molecules into atoms and metal into vapor, create iron vapor.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Mar. 2020
  • The dayside's blazing temperatures, which are hot enough to turn molecules into atoms and metal into vapor, create iron vapor.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Oct. 2021
  • This will reveal both the signatures of atmospheric ingredients such as water, methane, and carbon dioxide, and also how heat flows from the planet’s dayside to its nightside.
    Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 16 Aug. 2017
  • The species residing on its permanent dayside may be completely different from those on its colder nightside, exhibiting distinct patterns of enforced sleep.
    Avi Loeb, Scientific American, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Scientists believe that on the exoplanet's dayside, blazing temperatures, which are hot enough to turn molecules into smaller atoms and metal into vapor, create iron vapor.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 Apr. 2021

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