Sentences with phrase «about a mile thick»

Some of those areas are about a mile thick, so they've still got plenty of ice to burn through.

Not exact matches

«In a future mission, we could fly through those plumes and tell a lot about the chemistry and nature of the surface» and possibly a liquid ocean below, Bob Pappalardo, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who wasn't involved in the work, told Business Insider — all without having to drill through the moon's miles - thick ice shell.

While most scientists were focusing on the possibility of life in Europa's ocean, he and Bada had been talking about what biochemistry might happen in the 10 - mile - thick layer of ice atop the ocean.

«By our estimates, this would mean that the tectonic plates in the ocean are approximately 100 kilometers or about 62 miles thick.»

Astronomers believe large moonlets up to at least a half - mile in size may hide among the rings, which themselves are only about 30 feet thick; the taller vertical structures visible here could be ring material that «splashes» up when the fine particles of the rings collide with these moonlets, much as water at the sea's edge can splash up and over a rock.

The big question is how much damage a quake of that size could do to Bangladesh, which sits atop a layer of sediment about 12 miles thick.

GRACE has the sensitivity to pick up a puck about a centimeter thick and 400 kilometers [half an inch and 250 miles] across.»

John Zarnecki of the Open University in the United Kingdom, who led the experiment, reported that the 705 - pound Huygens, falling 10 miles per hour, first broke through a relatively stiff layer, about half an inch thick, then sank about six inches.

Beneath an ice layer about 10 to 15 miles (15 - 25 kilometers) thick, the moon is thought to harbor a liquid water ocean, possibly warmed by geologic processes originating in the planet's core.

Some theoretical research suggested that at the pressures and temperatures found in the depths where this quake happened, ruptures could only occur within zones about 6 miles (10 km) thick, said study lead author Shengji Wei, a seismologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

They discovered Tamu's 120,000 square miles were made of massive lava sheets, up to 75 feet thick, that had erupted from a single summit about 145 million years ago.

The scientists believe the subducted area was absorbed into Europa's ice shell, which may be up to 20 miles (about 30 kilometers) thick, rather than breaking through it into Europa's underlying ocean.

Gravity science results published in 2014 strongly suggested the presence of a 6 - mile -(10 - kilometer --RRB- deep ocean beneath an ice shell about 19 to 25 miles (30 to 40 kilometers) thick.

There is now a McDonalds and a Kmart - but when I was growing up, you had to ride your bike about a mile down a very dark country road thick with night insects stinging your face to even find a plugged - in Coke machine where you could buy a vended soda for thirty - five cents.

Almost two - thirds of the island — which is about 19 kilometres (12 miles) long and 14 kilometres (nine miles) wide at its longest and widest points — is national park, and covered in thick monsoonal rainforest.

The lodge, on 12 acres along the Tatai River about 50 miles northwest of Chi Phat, is thick with palms and brightly colored flowering bushes.

Convert that into English, and it works out to 11,532 square miles of ice three meters thick, or an area about 10 % larger than the state of Massachusetts.

This layer is about 300 miles (500 km) thick.

Any expansion, or contraction in the crust, which is about 25 miles thick, caused by fluctuations in the atmospheric temperatures would be negligable.

This fossilized coral reef was alive about 20,000 years ago, during the height of the last glacial period, a time when Earth was around 9 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Celsius) cooler than it is now, and the city of Chicago was buried beneath an ice sheet almost 2 miles (3 kilometers) thick.

(Example: imagine the impact on the economy if all of North America down to about the Mason - Dixon line became covered by a mile - thick blanket of ice in the space of a century or two!)

The current interglacial period is getting long in tooth so again by any sane measure we should be worried about an impending ice age and if there is any merit whatsoever in anthropogenic global warming we should be glad for it and try to get as much of it as we can in the hope that it might delay the inevitable return of glaciers a mile thick covering everything north of Washington, D.C.

Greenland's ice sheet is 1.9 miles thick and contains enough ice to raise global sea levels by about 25 feet (7.5 meters) all told.