Sentences with phrase «although ocean worlds»

Although ocean worlds are swimming in what is thought to be a key ingredient for life — water — their lack of land may limit how much of it they can host.

Not exact matches

Although the prospect of visiting a world that could have more water than all of Earth's oceans combined is terribly exciting, NASA's proposed spacecraft falls short of meeting certain expectations:

Although it has no outlets to the world's oceans, the 1,000 - kilometer long Caspian Sea is an important thoroughfare for trade...

Although blue is the color most often associated with the world's oceans, black is a far more apt descriptor for nearly 90 percent of our planet's waters.

Although the future ocean will begin to resemble the past greenhouse world, it will retain elements of the present «icehouse» world long into the future.

However, DiNezio's own modelling work also suggests that ENSO will continue in a warmed world: although the rise in temperatures pushes the Pacific towards a permanent El Niño, the ocean pushes back.

Although invisible to the naked eye, these microorganisms form the energetic basis of the entire food web in the world's oceans.

Although roughly 15 percent of the world's oceans overlie continental margins, these bands suffer from the logistical drawbacks of land and deep sea: inconveniently deep water and uncomfortably complex terrain.

Although POPs were found in fish in all of the world's oceans, the researchers say that concentrations in the consumable meat of marine fish are highly variable, where one region or group of fish may find concentrations of POPs that vary by 1,000-fold.

The governments of the world, and our government in particular, seem presently much less than enthusiastic about exploring the oceans of our own planet than in exploring other planets (ocean research seems to have taken a particular hit in the last decade of Congressional budget cuts, although admittedly, all agencies have seen cutbacks).

Although seagrasses account for less than 0.2 % of the world's oceans, they sequester approximately 10 % of the carbon buried in ocean sediment annually (27.4 Tg of carbon per year) *.

Sadly, although Detective Pikachu is a game that will take you to various locations, such as a closed down fair, a research facility, and even an ocean cruiser, you are always limited with how much you can explore, as the game is not the open world game it appears to be.

Although not yet officially designated by the United Nations, World Ocean Day is an opportunity each year to celebrate our world ocean and our personal connection to theWorld Ocean Day is an opportunity each year to celebrate our world ocean and our personal connection to theOcean Day is an opportunity each year to celebrate our world ocean and our personal connection to theworld ocean and our personal connection to theocean and our personal connection to the sea.

Although constituting just 4 % of the ocean, coral reefs are home to 25 % of all the marine species in the world, making the offshore waters of Belize an enormous living aquarium.

Although I enjoyed Spirit Tracks, the weak world and dungeon design combined with the Temple of the Ocean King, made it hard to enjoy.

Although it has been argued that these lines resemble some of the geographical features that Diebenkorn observed in the suburban landscape, by the time he painted his Ocean Park paintings he felt he had resolutely abandoned figuration in favor of something much more spiritual and contemplative, as one influential critic noted, «[With the Ocean Parks]... one leaves behind labels like «Abstract Expressionism» and «Bay Area Figuration» and enters a breathtaking new world that is unique to Diebenkorn as Mondrian's or Still's or Rothko's are to their creators....

Two things can be going on here, firstly, the loss in the tropics may be more than compensated for in the rest of the world (which is consistent with the extensive Southern Ocean warming observed by Gille (2002)-RRB-, and secondly, the data from the tropics may be less complete or accurate than claimed, although I am not aware of any specific reasons why that might be.

Although the main focus of the 5 Gyres Institute is to determine the spacial distribution of plastic in the world's oceans (finding out what's the distribution and concentration of plastics in the sea), in their trawls the scientists extract samples of lantern fish.

Although it may lower the planet's temperature by a couple of degrees, it would do little to stop the acidification of the world's oceans that threatens coral reefs and other marine life.

Although the overall rate of methane production in ocean sediments is fairly slow, over millions of years, substantial reservoirs of methane hydrate have accumulated in the world's ocean margins.

«Scientists have long suspected [undersea rivers] can form, after sonar scans of the sea bed have revealed meandering channels in many of the world's oceans, although none have been found before to have currents of water flowing through them,» the Telegraph wrote.