Sentences with phrase «debris field»

Awesome barely begins to describe how it feels to be behind the controls of a small fighter ship while flying through ship yards and debris fields while in full combat.

A new meteor shower is on tap for the continental United States as the Earth passes through an old debris field left behind in the 1700's by Comet 209P / LINEAR.

Scientists have long seen evidence of ancient collapses in sonar images of giant debris fields in the shallow waters surrounding volcanic islands around the world, including Majorca in the Mediterranean Sea and the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean.

Characterizing debris fields in tornadoes is vital, scientists say, because flying debris causes most tornado fatalities.

It is a testament to the people who braved the thousand degree debris fields to try to find survivors and or body parts to recover.

The size of this stellar debris field, measured by the patch of sky that glows bright in gamma rays, tells researchers how quickly matter moves relative to a local astrophysical engine — in this case, the nearby pulsars.

For decades Pluto, later joined by its moon Charon, had a wide swath to itself on astronomers» plots of the solar system — no other bodies were known to dwell beyond Neptune in the long - hypothesized debris field known as the Kuiper Belt.

You know, I'm not going to look through 100,000 images of Titanic for the Rubáiyát or go through the entire debris field, but if you get 1,000 people or 10,000 people looking, I think we could cover a lot of ground pretty quickly.

This suggests a periodic source of additional dust, for example, a cometary debris field.

Comet Encke has left several debris fields in the inner solar system, giving rise to the Southern and Northern Taurids, meteor showers that peak in October and November, and the Beta Taurids in June and July.

The scientists said one - third of the Great Barrier Reef lies beyond the seaward edge of the shallower reefs, and the discovery of this prominent undersea landslide and its vast debris field in the deep Great Barrier Reef reveals a far more complex landscape than previously known.

The crew — Spock, Bones (Karl Urban, «Dredd»), Sulu, Uhura (Zoe Saldana, «Colombiana»), Chekov (Anton Yelchin, «Fright Night»), Scotty (Simon Pegg, «Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol»), among others — encounters debris fields, technical malfunctions, betrayal and bona fide drama as they pursue their crafty adversary, but who will be double - crossed and fooled as tensions build?

Tour the universe with more than 100 brilliantly colored photos, starting with scenes of Earth, such as a satellite view of the massive debris field created by the 2011 Japanese tsunami.

A cavil to conclude: What a precipitous falling - off is offered in the last two (chronologically) works in the show, one of which foregrounds Superman, pensive as Rodin's Dante on a rock wall in a planetary debris field, the other a cardboard - stiff version of Ironman gauchely embraced by a Teutonic blonde (he can't even get his metallic arms up) before a boring sunset amid comatose palm trees.

Murphy's works are created using a technique that involves suspending widely - spaced individual shapes or fragments of imagery that, when viewed from side angles resemble nothing more than a floating debris field, but when viewed head - on combine to form a single, unified image.

On Thursday, a golden retriever made his way out of the debris field near Oso, Wash., the site of the devastating mudslide that killed at least 30 people nearly two weeks go.

I do not know the answer to that, but the area that consitutes the debris field seems reasonable to me to be off limits.

With the Erie County Sheriff's helicopter scanning the river from overhead, Rinaldi said during a Monday afternoon news briefing the debris field on the bottom of the river, which extends more than 100 feet from shore, made even the sonar search «extremely complicated.»

The difficult search continued throughout the weekend, hampered by the river's strong current and large debris field.

A September report by the National Research Council found that the debris field is so dense that collisions between objects in orbit will create additional debris faster than space junk falls out of orbit.

Detailed maps of the debris field, high - definition images and online gaming technology could lead to virtual expeditions to the Titanic site

In order to analyze the full extent of the GPGP, the team conducted the most comprehensive sampling effort of the GPGP to date by crossing the debris field with 30 vessels simultaneously, supplemented by two aircraft surveys.

They find that as a submarine sinks, parts and contents of the ship spread across a wide area into a debris field far larger than the size of the ship — a clue important for figuring out how the Titanic debris might have scattered.

Jupiter's encroachment on the inner solar system carved a gap in the debris field from which the rocky planets were forming, depriving Mars of raw ingredients.

But it's out there somewhere, either on the ship or in the debris field.

Characterizing the debris field of a tornado is vital given flying debris cause most tornado fatalities.

They also photographed the Titanic and its debris field with high - definition digital video cameras deployed using robotics.

Then they estimated how far the debris field might have traveled as the glacier moved down the mountain.

The debris field (outlined by the dotted yellow line) buried part of a glacier.

Dr Beaman said a debris field of large blocks, or knolls, and numerous smaller blocks, lies scattered over 30 kilometres from the main landslide remains, into the Queensland Trough, to a depth of 1350 metres.

The debris field also provides a more precise way to pinpoint a tornado's location.

The debris field of very fine dust was likely created from collisions among developing infant planets near the star, evidenced by a bright ring of dusty debris seen 7 billion miles from the star.

According to astrophysicists Jupiter's gravitational field has pushed the debris field left behind in the 1700's so the Earth will be passing directly through it.

The debris field is based on data from NASA's Orbital Debris Program Office.

Because of it's orbit the Earth usually does not pass through the debris field it leaves behind to produce a meteor shower.

Yet some remote icy bodies are dropping clues that a giant orb may be lurking on the fringes of the solar system.Six hunks of ice in the debris field beyond Neptune travel on orbits that are aligned with one another.

The Scout will take pictures and analyze the asteroid's position in space, its shape, debris field, and more.

The ship - to - ship battles are as awesome as anything the series has produced, while Kirk's standout flight through a debris field is one of the best set pieces of the year.

Were there to be a loss of a SpaceX craft, the debris field could cover tens of thousands of acres.

The Brazilian Air Force has found a debris field in the Atlantic that may be the remains of Air France flight 447, which disappeared late Sunday night en route from... Read More...

Lois Weinberger: Debris Field, 2010 — 16, installation view, EMST — National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, documenta 14, photo: Mathias Völzke