Apart from the equatorial band, she noted.

But when he had seen it last, it had been brightly illuminated by strings of fusion lights that traced an equatorial band around the artificial central docking cavern.

The area is also in the equatorial band above which satellites can remain in geosynchronous earth orbit, and NSS-9 is above.

Between them is a warmer equatorial band, brighter in the infrared wavelengths, although it would be darker to the eye.

The equatorial band had been found to be totally uninhabitable.

They were only slightly compressed, and their arms sprouted not from a single equatorial band but from across the whole surface.

Later telescopic observations confirmed Io's distinct reddish-brown polar regions and yellow-white equatorial band.

It was an odd sight; you always think of Jupiter with equatorial bands running parallel across it.

For instance, the south polar region of Uranus is much brighter than the equatorial bands.

Its visible surface was an expanse of what they knew to be billowing cloud, shining brilliantly white in the pale sunlight, broken only by a dark equatorial band.