Sentences with phrase «away at the surface»

Over millions of years, the weak but persistent winds ate away at the surface ice and dust, carving out Chasma Boreale in all its glory.

A rock corer will grind away at the surface of the rock, while an ingenious instrument dubbed the Mole, designed by a team led by Lutz Richter of the German Aerospace Center in Cologne, will burrow into the soil.

They had a chance to scratch away at the surface and find some nuggets of fun, smiling insanity.

Some ulcers grow slowly over time (called indolent ulcers) and eat away at the surface of the eye.

Just a day before the opening of his new exhibit, Scratching Away at the Surface (Peter Blum, 99 Wooster Street, October 29th, 2009 — January 2, 2010) Helmut Federle welcomes Art Editor John Yau and painter Chris Martin at the gallery to talk about his life and work.

... recent works that explore form and process including drawings made through erasure, works on panel, and flat cast resin works... Yamaoka materializes a paradox by rubbing away at the surface of the world in order to make something from it.»

Helmut Federle, Japanese Sea in Moonlight, 2009 Acrylic on canvas, 23 5/8 x 19 5/8 inches October 29, 2009 — January 2, 2010 Peter Blum is pleased to announce the exhibition Helmut Federle: Scratching Away at the Surface.

Scratching Away at the Surface brings together five paintings that are part of a cycle of nine works that Helmut Federle produced between January and March 2009.

Peter Blum is pleased to announce the exhibition Helmut Federle: Scratching Away at the Surface.

Not exact matches

Hubble was about 400 - 500 million miles away from Jupiter at the time, and it was taking pictures of Europa's backlit silhouette as it moved across the gas giant's surface:

That is, were you to bring two North poles together, they would be «at odds» with the other and would grind away at each other because you can't match up how the surfaces turn in space.

This phenomenon of divergence functions rather like the lines of longitude on the surface of the planet, growing further apart as they move away from their point of origin at the earth's pole.

The thesis is at times illuminating both of St Francis and of his world; for example, the chapters on courtly love provide insights into Francis» relationship with Lady Poverty andthe Blessed Mother, at the same time setting the secular cult of knightly trysts in a critical light, stripping away something of the 19th - century Romantic veneer from its surface.

Working with one remaining leaf at a time, lay flat on a work surface; with a knife held horizontally, cutting away from you, shave center rib flush with leaf.

I mean you can't really grumble at a three - nil away victory rendering the next leg a would - be dead rubber, although with a the Arsenal I guess it's always got a caveat... But still, the job was done and on a surface which was false, -LSB-...]

Rochdale took umbrage at claims they were giving away an advantage by relaying the pitch, and set about showing they, too, prefer a surface conducive to passing.

There were a few thoughts at the end of the season that Branescu could be set for a promotion to Juventus» senior squad after rumors surfaced that Storari could be ask for a move away from Turin this summer as he looked to finish his career as a regular starter rather than Buffon's understudy.

Away from home, again, playing on arguably the largest playing surface in European football, again, and with what would probably be described as a lesser squad, at least from a defensive standpoint; if City are as open as Bayern were two seasons ago, or as open as they were against Celtic in the last matchday...

For example, at Camp Nou there are no restricted views, however category 4 seats will be high up and far away from the playing surface.

• clean and sterilise all feeding parts before each use • do not use abrasive cleaning agents or anti-bacterial cleaners with bottles and teats • wash your hands thoroughly and ensure surfaces are clean before handling sterilised components • for inspection of the teat, pull it in each direction • place the teat in boiling water for 5 minutes before first use to ensure hygiene • throw away bottle and teats at the first sight of damage, weakness or scratching • replace teats and spouts after 3 months use • do not warm milk in a microwave as this may cause uneven heating and could scald your baby • always check the milk temperature before feeding • make sure that the bottles are not over-tightened • do not allow your baby to play with small parts or run or walk while feeding

(and ONLY if you have a safe enough table / counter top with sufficient width / breadth and sturdiness and you promise to be in arms length away from her at ALL times) you can put her play mat on table surface and have her be your centerpiece in tummy time, facing you.

11 am - Baby down for nap, start on folding laundry 1120 am - Putting away laundry 1130 am - Preparing a grilled cheese sandwich and vegetable bean soup 12Noon - Mom eating lunch, Baby beginning to stir 1215 pm - Start dishes and wipe all surfaces, while Mom cuddles Baby 1230 pm - Mom feeds Baby, I sit with her and we talk about her family's excitement, how to manage visits 1 pm - Mom upstairs to nap, I burp, change and soothe Baby back to sleep 120 pm - Finish folding laundry and put away dry dishes 2 pm - Swiffer the kitchen and dining room 230 pm - Straighten and organize baskets to use for mobile changing station and nursing items 245 pm - Mom awake from nap, Baby wakes at same time, to feed.

Wilson said the blooms have occurred on the surface of the lake and away from the city's intake pipes, which are at different depths and about 1,000 feet apart.

«We can't just drill deep and expect to run away from contaminants on the land surface,» says Scott Jasechko, a study coauthor and water resources scientist at the University of Calgary in Canada.

Waves of light or sound fired at an object tend to bounce off its surface like raindrops on an umbrella, collectively exerting a subtle nudge called radiation pressure that pushes the object away.

In 1994, while at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, he and his colleagues showed that after 8 days of spinal morphine injections, rats were quicker to pull their paws away from a gradually heated glass surface.

At one point, 97 per cent of the sheet's surface was melting, leading to floods that washed away bridges.

Driven by stronger winds resulting from climate change, ocean waters in the Southern Ocean are mixing more powerfully, so that relatively warm deep water rises to the surface and eats away at the underside of the ice.

The research, reported in tomorrow's Nature, may help to end a persistent debate about whether semimolten rock from just above the outer core can spark isolated eruptions at the surface, nearly 3000 kilometers away.

When this structure is stripped away, the remaining smoothed surface would be brighter than unaffected areas, especially when the sun's rays strike it at certain angles.

For certain, nothing made by contemporary humanity will be left at the surface that far in the future, even stone edifices like the pyramids or Mount Rushmore will be wiped away, though the fine imprints of plastic objects, like say a vinyl record, may be legible — and even perhaps listenable — in the rock like the fronds of a fern.

Even though density measurements suggest that Ceres is roughly one third water by weight, water ice should rapidly sublimate away into space on the dwarf planet's airless, sun - soaked surface, so its absence at first would seem to be no surprise.

And in the case of Mars, we are just looking at a lot of phenomena that were taking away a lot of the atmosphere in general and leaving the oxygen, so that it could start to oxidize a lot of the surface of the planet.

Smooth surfaces act as acoustic mirrors, the team says: Up close, they reflect sound at an angle away from the bat, producing fuzzier, harder - to - read echoes than rough surfaces do.

From farther away, smooth surfaces don't produce any echoes at all.

That's because ions spiral along Jupiter's magnetic field lines, and the lines that loop out to 2 million kilometers pierce the planet's surface at latitudes well away from the poles.

But lacking the necessary social skills, Keiko at first mostly floated motionless at the surface, facing towards the wild pods several hundred metres away.

But a newly discovered white dwarf, about 1,200 light - years away in the constellation Draco, has no hydrogen or helium at its surface.

And after physical contact at the surface, Keiko swam away, seeking out human company on the tracking boat.

«New Horizons is the latest in a long line of scientific accomplishments at NASA, including multiple missions orbiting and exploring the surface of Mars in advance of human visits still to come; the remarkable Kepler mission to identify Earth - like planets around stars other than our own; and the DSCOVR satellite that soon will be beaming back images of the whole Earth in near real - time from a vantage point a million miles away.

The continually dropping slope helps explain why northern Greenland, unlike Antarctica, has no large subglacial lakes: Meltwater that either forms at the base of Greenland's ice sheet or ends up there after draining from the ice sheet's upper surface flows away uninterrupted.

Smooth surfaces act as acoustic mirrors, which could present a problem for a bat: They reflect sound at an angle away from the bat, producing fuzzier, harder - to - read echoes than rough surfaces.

An ever - expanding network of roads, railways, rivers, and shipping lanes means that only 10 percent of the earth's surface is now remote, defined as being at least 48 hours away from a major city.

Just like a gecko lifting its foot away from the wall, researchers pulled the glue pad away at a 90 - degree angle so that only the tips of the branching nanotube bits were touching the surface, and it easily came away.

Normally, Antarctic minkes travel solo or in small groups, keeping well away from people and not lingering at the surface.

The calf was bitten many times, thrashed vigorously at the surface when attacked, and attempted to swim away.

But new computer models hint that the U-turn resulted from more familiar geological processes taking place at Earth's surface — in particular, the persistent erosion, movement, and deposition of sediment wearing away from the growing Andes.

The disappearing act could affect far - away weather patterns, as changes at the sea surface affect air currents that steer powerful weather - makers such as the jet stream.

By adding a specially patterned layer of silica glass to the surface of ordinary solar cells, a team of researchers led by Shanhui Fan, an electrical engineering professor at Stanford University in California has found a way to let solar cells cool themselves by shepherding away unwanted thermal radiation.

At night, absorption at the surface (that is, below 1.2 metres [4 feet]-RRB- is reradiated, in the form of long - wave infrared radiation, away from Earth's surface back toward spacAt night, absorption at the surface (that is, below 1.2 metres [4 feet]-RRB- is reradiated, in the form of long - wave infrared radiation, away from Earth's surface back toward spacat the surface (that is, below 1.2 metres [4 feet]-RRB- is reradiated, in the form of long - wave infrared radiation, away from Earth's surface back toward space.