Sentences with phrase «crushing pressure»

Initially, scientists thought that no species, let alone a bustling community, could survive the scorching temperatures and crushing pressures of these sites, most of which are located about 7,000 feet below the ocean surface in areas of seafloor spreading.

The results show the range of blistering temperatures and crushing pressures at which this takes place.

Each of Nereus's two hulls contains approximately 800 of the ~ 9 - centimeter (3.5 - inch) hollow spheres precisely designed and fabricated to withstand crushing pressures.

The sea floor is an alien landscape, with crushing pressure, near - total darkness, and fluids wafting from cracks in the Earth's crust.

Deep inside Jupiter, researchers believe, high temperatures and crushing pressures transform the gas into an exotic form of matter known as liquid metallic hydrogen — a liquid form of hydrogen akin to the slippery mercury in an old - fashioned thermometer.

The bone - crushing pressure outside the submarine, the strange creatures inhabiting the ocean and the potentially dangerous equipment and machines on board ensure that the tiniest slip can turn the game into a chaotic struggle for survival.

In fact, first - time founders and serial entrepreneurs alike will tell you, there are weeks and months of struggles, minimal hard - won successes, daunting lessons, crushing pressure, and financial instability involved in running a company.

He made tornadoes, volcanoes, influenza, HIV, cancer, poisonous spiders, sharks, subzero temperatures, the crushing pressures on the surface of Venus, and cosmic radiation.

It contributes to the crushing pressure for students to succeed in every facet of their lives.

In contrast, Venus's thick clouds block most sensors on orbiting spacecraft, and those that venture too far below the cloud deck face sulfuric acid droplets, scalding temperatures, and crushing pressures.

The surfaces of mini-Neptunes — if they exist — would suffer under the crushing pressure of such a thick atmosphere.

Exploring the ocean is harder than space, Spinrad said, due to crushing pressures, a harsh chemical environment, the inability to communicate with radio frequencies, and no light.

Laser shots strike a diamond anvil, driving a mixture of helium and hydrogen to the crushing pressures seen in Saturn's interior.

But as you fell — and you would keep falling because there's no surface to stand on — you'd plummet to crushing pressures.

Dirt and stones rain down on the scientists as the cave ceiling slowly melts, and the crushing pressure of the glacier overhead generates an unnerving crackling.

As snow accumulated on the high - elevation end of the 41 - kilometer river of ice, the crushing pressure changed the structure of the water molecules, causing the ice to melt at lower temperatures and allowing the mass to suddenly shift.

A metamaterial fine - tuned to stay the same size under a wide range of pressures could be used to build equipment that withstands the crushing pressures of the deep sea or the vacuum of outer space.

It can attain pressures of 150 atmospheres (equivalent to the crushing pressures found at oceanic depths of nearly 5,000 feet) and temperatures of approximately 2,000 degrees Celsius (more than 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit), conditions needed to grow the crystals.

The seismic data collected by the Initiative has also helped Gao and her colleague Yang Shen at the University of Rhode Island, along with another study by Columbia University scientist Helen Janiszewski and Cornell University researcher Geoffrey Abers, to compile a picture of the CSZ structure that points to new places where the crushing pressure of subduction is squeezing water from and transforming rock at the trench where the Juan de Fuca plate is bending under the North American plate.

He proposed that the bottom layers of Europa's ice shell would be slightly warmer than the ice on top, due to heating from both the ocean below and the crushing pressure of the miles - thick ice above.

Like the inferred lakes on Europa, Vostok lies some two miles under a shell of surface ice and remains liquid due to the crushing pressure of that overlying mass.

Even the crushing pressure of deep seas, the vacuum of outer space and exposure to extreme radiation don't bother water bears.

Along the margins of the continents, crushing pressures and near - freezing temperatures squeeze methane and water together in the sediments to form methane ice, or methane hydrates.

Expanding on these pioneering expeditions, scientists and engineers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have built a new efficient, multi-purpose «hybrid» vehicle that can explore and operate in the crushing pressures of the greatest ocean depths.

The bone - crushing pressures and eyebrow - singing temperatures maintain this water in a plasma state, creating a dense, deadly ocean at the bottom of its atmosphere.

The crushing pressure of weight lifted stimulates hormones activities — extra natural testosterone is produced.

We face shadowy soldiers storming out the cover of jungle with the darkness split by the flare of gunfire and grenades, endure the bombs raining on American camps and the tropical rains that bring sickness and rot and watch the horrors of jungle warfare and the crushing pressure of constant combat that wears men down as sure as gunfire and shrapnel.

It's comforting to hear that Searchlight are so confident in the film, given the crushing pressure it will be under when it eventually surfaces at Cannes.

Spacecraft have to be heavily reinforced to survive the crushing pressure (90 times heavier than Earth), and the oven - like temperatures (872 Fahrenheit or 467 Celsius), found at its surface.

That was before plans for the Bixby speaker looked like they might have crumbled under the crushing pressure of Amazon's stronghold on the smart speaker market.