Sentences with phrase «called tiger stripes»

Europa isn't the only squirty moon in our planetary system: Saturn's moon Enceladus has also been caught shooting water out of its south pole in so - called tiger stripes.

My 5 year old son noticed my many belly stretch marks and said they looked like a tiger, so I call them my tiger stripes.

Not exact matches

As you're flying over, you'll see these geological features, these scars — little channels, basically — what we call the «tiger stripes.»

So - called «tiger stripes» on Enceladus were first reported in 2006 by planetary scientist Carolyn Porco of the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

Enceladus» southern polar region is also home to occasional jets of water vapor and icy particles (with traces of carbon dioxide and monoxide, volatile gases, and hydrocarbons) that spew from vents within the moon's so - called «tiger stripe fractures,» which create a huge plume of vapor and icy particles that extends into space and affects Saturn's magnetosphere.

Let's pause for a brief geology refresh: Tigereye (sometimes called tiger's eye) is a semiprecious rock with a distinct pattern of bronze, gold, and dark brown stripes.

Brindle, sometimes called «tiger striped», is a fawn coat with black stripes.

Meanwhile, in the California Toyger breed, the mackerel tabby pattern has been selectively refined into a more tiger - like pattern of thin but solid stripes (sometimes called candle - flames) which do not break up, while in red self Persians, the classic tabby pattern has been refined to coalesce and to mask the background colour as far as possible in order to create the illusion of a «solid red» cat.