How to Use nightside in a Sentence
nightside
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But on the nightside, the moon casts its dreamy glow out into the dark of space.
—Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2020
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Wood explained that, even on the nightside, the surface of Venus is about 860 degrees.
—Julia Musto, Fox News, 11 Feb. 2022
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Bash made a name for herself as a nightside reporter at News 5 for two years.
—Joey Morona, cleveland.com, 30 June 2017
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Webb will constantly face the nightside of Earth as the spacecraft and planet swoop around the sun in unison.
—Marcia Dunn, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Dec. 2021
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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
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On the nightside, plasma from the sun instead deposits electrons, leaving the surface with a net negative charge.
—Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2019
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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
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BepiColombo will fly by the planet's nightside, so images during the closest approach wouldn't be able to show much detail.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Oct. 2021
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The flyby spacecraft would reach periapsis 700 kilometers above a point near the equator at the center of Venus’s nightside.
—David S. F. Portree, WIRED, 2 June 2012
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The theory helps address a curious trend — the nightside of every hot Jupiter discovered so far was found to be at 1,000 degrees Kelvin.
—Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2019
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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
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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
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However, since the nightside is too dark to observe, astronomers can only detect these water molecules right at the border between day and night.
—Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 8 Aug. 2018
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At Venus, the camera detected a bright rim around the edge of the planet that may be nightglow — light emitted by oxygen atoms high in the atmosphere that recombine into molecules in the nightside, notes the space agency.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
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But as those gases flow to the nightside of the planet, the hydrogen atoms are able to reconnect under the comparatively cooler conditions.
—Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Jan. 2020
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While the next two flybys will likely not allow the probe to image the nightside, scientists will continue to use other instruments to study Venus' space environment.
—Julia Musto, Fox News, 11 Feb. 2022
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In February 2018, Becker and her team decided to take Juno’s navigation camera—which typically looks at nearby stars—and take a peek at the Jupiter’s dark nightside.
—Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2020
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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
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One veteran nightside editor stormed out of a men’s room one night, grumbling about young reporters changing into running shorts for the workout that had replaced drinking as a supper-time activity.
—Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Apr. 2018
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Rapid winds carry this over to the nightside, where relatively cooler temperatures hover around 2,240 degrees Fahrenheit.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 Apr. 2021
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Amateur #radio & #GPS users expect signal disruptions on Earth's nightside.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 18 July 2022
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These clouds of condensed rock block outgoing thermal radiation, making the planet's nightside appear relatively cool from space.
—Fox News, 29 Aug. 2019
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