Sentences with phrase «beneath kilometers of ice»

Studying ice cores has provided a way to examine the biology of icy environments buried beneath kilometers of ice for millions of years.

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One popular choice is Lake Vostok in the heart of Antarctica, within which organisms may live beneath 4 kilometers of ice (ScienceNOW, 9 December 1999).

This isolated cavity of seawater, down at the grounding zone, sits deep beneath the back corner of the ice shelf — 850 kilometers back from where the edge of the ice meets the open sea.

Several Russian news outlets are reporting that Russian scientists have successfully drilled to Antarctica's Lake Vostok, a massive liquid lake cut off from daylight for 14 million years and buried beneath 2 miles (3.7 kilometers) of ice.

Whereas Pluto's putative ocean could in principle support life, it is probably locked beneath perhaps 200 kilometers of ice and very far from Earth, making it a much less appealing target for astrobiological studies than other, closer subsurface oceans known to exist in the solar system, such as those within the icy moons circling Jupiter and Saturn.

Schimdt has found evidence that warm ocean currents and convective forces beneath Europa's frozen shell can cause large blocks of ice to overturn and melt, bringing vast pockets of water, sometimes holding as much liquid as all of the Great Lakes combined, to within several kilometers of the moon's icy surface.

Nestled in a steep fjord beneath three kilometers of Antarctic ice, the lost world of Lake Ellsworth has haunted Martin Siegert's dreams ever since he got involved in subglacial research a dozen years ago.

Jupiter's moon Europa harbors a planetwide ocean — hidden beneath several dozen kilometers of ice.

Frigid water is seeping into and out of a vast lake beneath 4 kilometers of ice in Antarctica.

And that's because it lies beneath 3.7 kilometers (2.3 miles) of ice in the center of Antarctica.

If the craft were to crash on the surface of a cold moon like Enceladus, the RTGs could easily thaw a path through tens of kilometers of ice, and plop down into the liquid water ocean beneath, though this might take a long time.

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.

«It seems completely wacky that organisms would be okay living in the cold, beneath a kilometer or so of ice,» Tranter admits.

Though the glaciated surface flows down to the sea, much of the miles thick ice fills a vast central basin, the land beneath sloping downhill towards Greenland's center, much of which is over a kilometer below the elevation of the coast.

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.