Sentences with phrase «at ocean bottom»

Downwards from the discontinuity between the ocean bulk and the 1 mm cooler layer the thermal gradient is from warm at the top to cool at the ocean bottom.

Generally, according to Dr. Jahncke, if humpbacks are observed along the shelf break at the ocean bottom, they are feeding on krill.

The researchers think these conditions may exist on the seafloor of Enceladus, where hot water from the interior meets the relatively cold water at the ocean bottom.

Recent improvements to seismometer technology and reliability will allow the research team to make detailed observations of the geologically active region for the first time, including more advanced monitoring of activity at the ocean bottom.

Under pressure The DEEPSEA CHALLENGER's ability to linger at the ocean bottom for an extended period of time means scientists on future dives might be able to study microbes such as actinomycetes in their natural environments.

But now a series of new maps have been produced, twice as precise as anything done before, and they reveal thousands of previously uncharted sea mountains as well as fractures at the ocean bottom that produce deep - sea earthquakes.

Gas hydrates, icelike deposits of methane locked away in permafrost and buried at the ocean bottom, may pose a threat to our climate (see Discover, March 2004).

Not exact matches

For much of the history of space exploration on Earth, the powerful rockets used to propel people and cargo to orbit or beyond typically end up in a watery grave at the bottom of the ocean or eventually burning up in the atmosphere.

Most of us don't even know what is going on at the bottom of the ocean and here we are trying to climb up into the throne room of God and say, «God you can't do that».

Bacteria thrive virtually everywhere on Earth — from sub-zero temperatures to over 750 degrees F (in hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean), and in widely varying oxygen, pressure and nutrient conditions.

And of course, we like to feature things that are unique and cool: we'll be including a Vicius Albariño that's been aged at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

At some point something happens in Arsene's head and we just spring back from the bottom of the ocean to sea level.

After those first two hours those pheromones start to fade, they start to wane and babies start getting tired, I mean think about when you go out swimming in the ocean and you are being hit by wave after wave after wave and there is no bottom that you can rest at and that's what birth is like to a baby and so they come out and are like, «oh my god, I'm so tired» and they are exhausted and finally when they go to sleep and those hormonal instincts starts to wear down then when you try to put them to the breast they are like, «well hello!»

Tankers docking at the station would have regasified the fuel and pumped it through pipes buried at least 15 feet under the ocean bottom, including a 22 - mile - long main that would hook up to an existing delivery system.

Then you found still more perplexing discoveries in other South African mines — for instance, microbes similar to those previously seen only at the bottom of the ocean.

The race is on to tap the world's biggest and most unusual fossil fuel supply — methane trapped in frozen hydrates in permafrost and at the bottom of the ocean

Different kinds of plastic may be suspended at different depths — a dreadful rainbow of rubbish spanning the ocean from top to bottom — but no one has done the research to find out.

Optical sensors installed on ships, for instance, can determine ocean water color that reflects the activity of micro-algae at the bottom of the food chain and, when examined alongside satellite color observations, can support extrapolations about what's happening in a given area of ocean.

Different species of these lived at the surface and the bottom of the ocean.

At the time, scientists already had developed remotely operated vehicles that could roam the seafloor, and placed instruments on the ocean's bottom that could record uninterrupted measurements for years.

If the planet is covered by an immense amount of water, the pressure at the bottom of the ocean will increase to such an extent that water occurs in the form of «Ice VII,» which does not exist on Earth.

«We're finding planets with ocean that, although cold at the surface, are likely warm at the bottom.

The hope is that the cables could reveal secrets about what's happening underneath the ice sheets, especially about melting at the so - called grounding line, the place where the bottom of an ice sheet meets the slightly warmer ocean.

At the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, one sub took ground samples, the ostensible purpose of the mission, while the other deposited a titanium capsule containing a Russian flag.

Staking out a different kind of property claim, a Russian submarine planted that nation's flag at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, at the terrestrial North Pole, in 2007.

And Webb could still end up blown to smithereens or at the bottom of the ocean due to a launch failure, or drifting uselessly in space due to snags in its carefully choreographed deployment sequence.

The organisms likely survive using mechanisms similar to the ever - increasing parade of creatures that have been discovered living in the total darkness of hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean, deriving energy from minerals in seafloor rocks.

A research group comprising Project Researcher Yusuke Yamashita, Assistant Professor Tomoaki Yamada, Professor Masanao Shinohara and Professor Kazushige Obara at the University of Tokyo Earthquake Research Institute and researchers at Kyushu University, Kagoshima University, Nagasaki University, and the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, carried out ocean bottom seismological observation using 12 ocean bottom seismometers installed on the seafloor of Hyuga - nada from April to July 2013.

Lead author, Dr Huw Griffiths from BAS says: «While a few species might thrive at least during the early decades of warming, the future for a whole range of invertebrates from starfish to corals is bleak, and there's nowhere to swim to, nowhere to hide when you're sitting on the bottom of the world's coldest and most southerly ocean and it's getting warmer by the decade.»

Now the chemistry of the entire ocean was shifting, imperiling coral reefs, marine creatures at the bottom of the food chain, and ultimately the planet's fisheries.

A major thrust of current research is to understand how creatures like these at the bottom of the food chain respond to ocean acidification.

If the ice at the bottom of a glacier melts, the point where it connects to the bedrock moves backward, farther inland, losing ice to the ocean in the process.

Without the ozone layer, ultraviolet rays from the sun would reach the surface at nearly full force, causing skin cancer and, more seriously, killing off the tiny photosynthetic plankton in the ocean that provide oxygen to the atmosphere and bolster the bottom of the food chain.

At various points in Earth's history, dust fell into the ocean and fed algae, which gobbled up carbon dioxide and sank to the bottom of the sea, taking greenhouse gas with them and cooling the world.

Seismologists at UC Berkeley discover that the hum comes from massive, storm - driven waves bumping against the ocean bottom.

After 70 years at the bottom of the ocean, these wrecks will soon start to leak.

Moreover, these sediment - dwelling Loki are adapted to the extreme environment at the bottom of the ocean, so bringing them to the surface is likely a death sentence.

«But there are bacteria in chemical pits at the bottom of the ocean, so why not in the fallopian tubes?

In recent years, say scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, these baleen whales that typically sift out little crustaceans from the bottom are now eating mysid shrimp and even krill in ocean waters.

In 1960, Auguste's son Jacques Piccard steered a pressurized steel sphere called a bathyscaphe to the deepest point in the world's oceans, at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

Looking through the portholes of the submersible ALVIN near the bottom of the Pacific Ocean in 1979, American scientists saw for the first time chimneys, several meters tall, from which black water at about 300 degrees and saturated with minerals shot out.

That's pretty impressive considering that this action happens in the middle of the night at the bottom of the ocean.

Europa has a global ocean locked away beneath a crust of ice; deep below, the moon's internal heat might create hospitable conditions, akin to hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the mid-Atlantic ridge and East Pacific Rise on Earth.

This «oasis at the bottom of the ocean,» as Widder calls it, is also a hotbed of activity for bioluminescent animals, which is why she placed her camera there.

Three new papers co-authored by Mike Russell, a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., strengthen the case that Earth's first life began at alkaline hydrothermal vents at the bottom of oceans.

Can withstand pressures six times greater than those at the bottom of the ocean and endure temperatures ranging from more than 100 °C down to absolute zero.

Deepest point in the ocean is teeming with life At the bottom of the Mariana trench, some 11,000 metres below sea level and at pressures 1100 times those at the surface, bacteria are thrivinAt the bottom of the Mariana trench, some 11,000 metres below sea level and at pressures 1100 times those at the surface, bacteria are thrivinat pressures 1100 times those at the surface, bacteria are thrivinat the surface, bacteria are thriving.

But the dominant theory nowadays is that primitive microorganisms first assembled in hot, chemical - rich water at hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean.

They incorporated the lifecycle of phytoplankton and zooplankton — small, often microscopic animals at the bottom of the food chain — into a novel mechanistic model for assessing the global ocean carbon export.

As with plants, some carbon is released back into the atmosphere, but some eventually accumulates at the bottom of the ocean.