Sentences with phrase «beneath surface»

Attached to a hydrowire cable (1), the carousel dives off the side of a vessel and can reach depths of a mile or more beneath the surface.

But to scientists» surprise, plumes of oil extending several kilometers were floating roughly 1,000 meters beneath the surface, where the toxic compounds are literally washing off the oil and contaminating the water.

It will carry Italian radar to probe far beneath that surface for possible hidden reservoirs of water.

She digs a small hole in the leaf - litter soil, then pushes a thumb - sized device, called an iButton, about an inch beneath the surface.

Very broad features beneath the surface have been interpreted as plumes or super-plumes, but, still, they're far too wide to be considered narrow jets.

The Earth's core consists mostly of a huge ball of liquid metal lying at 3000 km beneath its surface, surrounded by a mantle of hot rock.

Researchers were surprised to find a 7,700 - square - mile piece (about the size of Wales) missing, but they theorized that it had moved over warmer ice layers until it collided with another plate and was forced beneath the surface, out of view.

Companies can also drill multiple wells in any direction from just one drilling pad, creating a honeycomb of tunnels miles beneath the surface that can siphon gas from hundreds of acres.

The Moment Scientists and engineers inspect a cavern nearly a mile beneath the surface at the Sanford Underground Laboratory at Homestake in Lead, South Dakota.

It flowed upward through cracks to pool just beneath the surface, where it pressed out to form large domes.

And while the data weren't in before this paper was written, the newest images of Pluto show land forms that suggest heat is rising beneath the surface, with troughs of dark matter either collecting, or bubbling up, between flat segments of crust, which could be related.

The bulk of the spill evaporated, dissolved into seawater, drifted onto beaches, or remains dispersed beneath the surface.

It can house more than 100 people above ground at a time, while fuel and cargo storage, waste - management facilities, maintenance garages and a power plant are all located beneath the surface of the ice sheet.

One intriguing possibility: If fluid water does persist on Mars, life that might have thrived there millions of years ago, when the climate was warmer and wetter, could be hanging on in thin layers of salty water just beneath the surface.

In 2002, NASA's Odyssey orbiter detected evidence of ice just beneath the surface of the Martian north pole, raising the possibility that during a warm spell liquid water could melt out — a likely requirement for life.

Springer probed beneath surface appearances by studying five particular genes in dozens of different mammals.

The idea is simple: Pump water or other fluids down deep beneath the surface.

In the journal Science, the scientists noted that water could flow sluggishly just beneath the surface and remain liquid owing to high concentrations of salt, which acts as antifreeze.

Some animals — for instance the cyclothone, the most common vertebrate in the world — even use light as camouflage during the day as they move about more than 1,000 feet beneath the surface.

Scientists seeking to understand the forces at work beneath the surface of Earth have used seismic waves to detect previously unknown «fingers» of heat, some of them thousands of miles long, in Earth's upper mantle.

Another surprise for the scientists was how the magma behaved within the canal beneath the surface.

Watch for stunning underwater footage of 2,000 - degree lava cooling and solidifying beneath the surface of the sea.

Answers may come from Deep Impact, a projectile that will slam into Comet Tempel 1 in July 2005, when a flyby spacecraft will study material beneath its surface.

Even when seismic ruptures occur ~ 10 kilometers beneath the surface, as was the case of the Gorkha event, an earthquake causes patterns of deformation (uplift, subsidence and lateral shifts) that can reveal the geometry of the fault surface, or surfaces, involved.

By anchoring underwater instruments in front of Yahtse Glacier, they hope to see how it melts beneath the surface.

Scientists suspect that carbon dioxide trapped beneath the surface during winter vaporized when temperatures rose, releasing gas and causing sand to pour down the dune's face.

It is then compressed into a liquid and, theoretically, pumped deep beneath the surface to be permanently trapped.

There has long been speculation as to whether Jupiter's large, icy moon Callisto has an ocean beneath its surface.

«If you find an ocean beneath the surface of one moon, perhaps the same is true of other icy objects in space,» says Jesper Lindkvist.

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But we think there is probably a hot spot in the mantle here producing magma far beneath the surface.»

«In comparing craters such as Dantu and Haulani, we find that their different material mixtures could extend beneath the surface for miles, or even tens of miles in the case of the larger Dantu,» Ammannito said.

And now — by putting on the gravity glasses — we can use the measurement values to see deep beneath the surface of our planet,» explains Dr. Johannes Bouman from the German Geodetic Research Institute at TUM.

For the first time, physicists have developed a technique that can peer deep beneath the surface of a material to identify the energies and momenta of electrons there.

These sparks are created when thousands of zinc atoms shoot from thousands of small pouches nestled just beneath the surface of the egg cell, researchers report December 15 in Nature Chemistry.

This could indicate a reservoir of water, also related to a large sea beneath the surface.

These sparks are created when billions of zinc atoms shoot from thousands of small pouches nestled just beneath the surface of a mouse egg cell, researchers from Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory report December 15 in Nature Chemistry.

«We hope to predict space weather based on studies of what's beneath the surface.»

If so, life might — just might — be holding out a bit beneath the surface of the martian arctic.

Once the dome - like film of the bubble is gone, the small cavity the bubble created beneath the surface rushes to close.

This left both teams scratching their heads until they noticed that the copper in the experiments contained tiny amounts of oxygen beneath its surface.

According to the researchers, the source most likely lies beneath the surface of the moon.

What happens in the bowels of the planet is a mystery, but we have a decent idea about the nature of the first few hundred kilometres beneath the surface.

The Messenger probe's second flyby of Mercury earlier this month has provided the first global view of the pockmarked planet, hinting at a complicated mineral structure beneath the surface and more glimpses of the planet's volcanic history.

A giant asteroid impact in the dwarf planet's past offers new insights into the possibility of an ocean beneath its surface.

Lichens, for example, are found within some Antarctic rocks, just beneath the surface where sunlight can still reach them.

By about 1.8 billion years ago, we start seeing oceans in which the surface had a little bit of oxygen, but just beneath the surface you would regularly encounter sulfide but no oxygen.

But high - definition submersible cameras captured images of abundant life nearly five miles beneath the surface of the Pacific.

But Friedmann discovered an extensive ecosystem of microorganisms living beneath the surface of porous rocks.

There are over 300 geological faults lying beneath the surface of Houston.