Sentences with phrase «below thick liquid»

And a «lot of water» here means hundreds or thousands of Earth oceans's worth of water, completely covering the silicate mantle of the planets, most likely in hundreds of km - thick high - pressure water ice layers, below thick liquid oceans or high - pressure steam atmospheres.

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«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.

So after my yogurt was done setting up in the fridge for about 8 hours I now have a thick crust on the top, and still fairly runny liquid below.

Solving the Puzzle The simple assumption was that any pockets of warm, liquid water would drain downward through the ice and refreeze, but Schmidt had read enough studies to know that would not happen on Europa — the ice below was so thick it was virtually impermeable.

There would be liquid water below this thick surfsce ice, supported by the planet's own internal heat.