Sentences with phrase «buried in a thick layer»

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This tidal energy produces more than enough internal heat to create a global water ocean, possibly as thick in places as 50 kilometers, buried under an outer layer of ice a few kilometers thick.

The easiest solution, however, will probably be to put the regolith to work: Simply place the habitat modules in a crater and bury them under a thick layer of moon dust.

In last week's Science, his group says that the outer ring is the original crater rim, formed 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous period and since buried under a layer of limestone up to 1000 metres thick.

The areas that appeared bright in the radio images but dark in the laser observations correspond to warmer patches on Mercury, where ice would be stable only if buried under a 10 - centimetre - thick layer of other material.

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So we divide 54 feet by 168 and we get a packed layer of about 4 inches thick of solid methane hydrate buried in the permafrost.