Flying high when convective weather is likely gives pilots the best opportunity for unlimited visibility and safe conditions.

These giant cells were expected to be about 120,000 miles (200,000 km) deep and wide, spanning the entire convection zone of the sun, the outermost third of the star's interior.

Convection cells are everywhere, from our coffee cups, oceans and atmosphere to the Sun’s atmosphere and even the clouds and dust in space. Convection cells can sometimes turn into a different flow ...

Convection cells can form in any fluid. In addition to the Sun (and my coffee), we see them in Earth's atmosphere and in the mantle, but another fun food example is miso soup.

We present a comprehensive analysis of a convection cell pattern in two SAR images of a site in the Greenland Sea from the satellites ERS-2 and RADARSAT. It is not obvious whether the observed radar ...

More information: Giant Convection Cells Found on the Sun, Science 6 December 2013: Vol. 342 no. 6163 pp. 1217-1219 DOI: 10.1126/science.1244682 ...

Also, the atmosphere is much more complex than a laboratory experiment. Other factors interfere with this type of convection such as aerosols, tiny particles of dirt around which cloud drops form.

Data reported by NASA’s New Horizons New Horizons mission to the Pluto system shows unusual terrain in this region, which features a large deposit of nitrogen ice with a pattern of polygons that are ...

Hidden turbulent motion that takes place inside the atmosphere of the Sun can be accurately predicted by a newly developed neural network. Fed only temperature and vertical motion data collected from ...

This layer is, indeed, where most atmospheric convection occurs, but the ULL change allows the model to capture atmospheric instability above the boundary layer, which may be key in predicting ...

The pattern of convection cells, or plasma-filled bubbles residing within Earth's magnetosphere, high above the Earth's polar caps. Different colors represent different convective motions of the ...