Sentences with phrase «finding flowing water»

He goes on to note the more recent discoveries that have been made including finding flowing water on Mars, signs of ice on one of Jupiter's moons, other planets out in the distance and a high - resolution mapping of Pluto.

Not exact matches

«The findings showed no mineralogical evidence for abundant liquid water or its by - products, thus pointing to mechanisms other than the flow of water — such as the freeze and thaw of carbon dioxide frost — as being the major drivers of recent gully evolution,» the team explained in the press release.

Dead sea crossing, moses camp on Mt Sinai, the rock struck from which water flowed, Aarons al; tar to Baal, Noahs, ark, the actual sight of christs crucifiction, Sodom and Gamorrah, all found exactly where, and exactl; y as described in the bible!

Already Columbus believed he had located the general site where the earthly paradise would be found and imagined that fresh - water currents in the sea off the northern coast of South America actually flowed from it.8 With literal - minded doggedness others would seek El Dorado, the Seven Cities of Cibola, or the Fountain of Eternal Youth.

The informing image of this world view is water, especially as found in the deep, swift streams that flow through Peru's mountain gorges.

Instead of a bamboo dipper at a basin of flowing water for purification at the entrance to a shrine area, one finds a water faucet, paper cups and a paper - towel dispenser!

I would say this to those who would withhold the water of baptism, the joy of worship, or the bonds of marriage: You are less strong than the water, which will flow around you, find its path, and gently erode each wall you try to erect.

Jacob, also a fugitive, had found a well and the beginnings of a new life (Gen. 29); in the semidesert, as in all parched lands, life literally flows to and from the source of water.

The main findings were that Commonwealth environmental water contributed to a flow regime within the lower Murray channel that supported golden perch spawning and recruitment.

The main findings were that there was an increased abundance and species richness of native fish compared to drought years (2005 - 2009) and Commonwealth environmental water contributed to increased base flows in the river channel, increasing hydraulic diversity for native fish.

So grab some paint and some water and get your creative juices flowing as you find fun things to do.

As for her beverage of choice, Patsy's tank is infused with a tea made for reptiles, called Reptablend, which releases the same tannins found in the slow - flowing or still waters where alligator snappers live in the wild.

At first, they will begin to find certain sounds to be more interesting (such as a hysterical laughter or a loud burp) than others (such as the dull noise of water flowing from a tap).

But an international team of scientists now finds that water flows over the bony carapaces of these fishes much as air does over the space shuttle, creating vortices of water that help guide the fish while swimming in unpredictable waters.

Water and mineral nutrients — the so - called sap flow — travel from the roots to the top of the tree within a layer of wood found under the bark.

Now, scientists have found that the boiling action of just a little bit of briny water beneath the surface could be responsible for creating the hillside flows.

After further analysis of the data, the scientists found that although a strong El Niño changes wind patterns in West Antarctica in a way that promotes flow of warm ocean waters towards the ice shelves to increase melting from below, it also increases snowfall particularly along the Amundsen Sea sector.

New findings from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present - day Mars.

Normal kids find it frustrating to copy a picture containing a visual illusion, such as M. C. Escher's drawing in which water flows uphill.

Previous research at The University of Manchester found that if immersed in water, graphene - oxide membranes become slightly swollen and smaller salts flow through the membrane along with water, but larger ions or molecules are blocked.

They found that larger watersheds were more stable in terms of water temperature and flow, and produced salmon more consistently.

The finding of severe degradation in the basin due to reduced water flow has significant implications for managing the development of other rivers in Australia and around the world.

In fact, the water around such animals flows with their go, new research has found, suggesting tiny swimmers may have a big impact on ocean mixing.

The team found that river flows and waterbird numbers were closely linked, indicating reduced water flow due to dam construction and water diversion for irrigation was the primary reason for the long - term declines in waterbirds in the Murray - Darling Basin.

The findings revealed that important trends in channel morphology through time were three times more common than those related to water quantity, indicating that changes in the channel's geometry tend to offset increases in water flow.

Cardenas and Kiel found that despite an image of water flowing freely downstream, nearly each drop gets caught up within the bank at one time or another.

Previously, researchers had found nearby pillow lavas, bulbous lava flows that form under water.

Billions of years ago, enough water flowed down from the rim of Gale crater to carry gravel to the middle of the crater floor — where the Curiosity rover found and imaged it 3 weeks ago, the NASA mission's team members reported in a press conference today.

While geologists in the energy and mineral industries face roller - coaster hiring - and - firing cycles, those who study the movement and chemistry of water seeping through rocks and sediment find demand for their expertise almost as steady as the flow of groundwater itself.

In other experiments with dried sapwood, Karnik found that water either did not flow through well, or flowed through cracks, but did not filter out contaminants.

Just as water from the middle third of the contiguous United States flows toward the Mississippi River, Tully found that galaxies across about 500 million light - years of space flow toward a previously discovered enormous and dense region known as the Great Attractor because of its powerful gravitational pull.

With its higher - than - a-bird's - eye view of the Red Planet's surface, it found the strongest evidence yet that salty water currently flows on Mars.

«Flowing water can slow down bacteria, researchers find.»

In a surprising new finding, researchers have discovered that bacterial movement is impeded in flowing water, enhancing the likelihood that the microbes will attach to surfaces.

Nor are negative water tests conclusive: cholera researchers say the bacteria are hard to find in fast - flowing rivers.

The compaction decreases downward water flow through the soil, drying out the upper soil layers, Resner and her colleagues found.

The recent paper, published August 30 in Science Advances, found that without significant changes, Jordan could face lower rainfall, much higher temperatures and as much as a 75 percent decline in water flowing into the country from Syria.

This new research finds that these RSL features are flows of granular material and thus, align with the long - standing hypothesis that the surface of Mars lacks flowing water.

The researchers found that the fluid consistently created small but effective cracks in the samples that allowed water to flow through.

Analysing 151 lineae, they found that the flows behave more like dry sand than liquid water, and the patterns look like those made when sand tumbles down dunes on Earth, just on a larger scale (Nature, doi.org/cgkp).

A team led by Gary Meyers of the Hobart - based Division of Oceanography of CSIRO, Australia's national research organisation, has found that this through - flow lessens during an El Niño event, decreasing the temperature difference between the dipole's two bands of water and causing dry conditions in central and southern Australia.

A study published this year by Bradley Udall, senior water and climate research scientist with the Colorado Water Institute at Colorado State University, and Jonathan Overpeck, professor of hydrology and atmospheric sciences at the University of Arizona, found that during the drought years of 2000 - 2014, the river surrendered a third of its flow because of higher temperatures in the upper bwater and climate research scientist with the Colorado Water Institute at Colorado State University, and Jonathan Overpeck, professor of hydrology and atmospheric sciences at the University of Arizona, found that during the drought years of 2000 - 2014, the river surrendered a third of its flow because of higher temperatures in the upper bWater Institute at Colorado State University, and Jonathan Overpeck, professor of hydrology and atmospheric sciences at the University of Arizona, found that during the drought years of 2000 - 2014, the river surrendered a third of its flow because of higher temperatures in the upper basin.

Using a model of water flow into the lake, the researchers found that 60 % of this decline was caused by climate changes, such as change in precipitation and temperature, and that the remaining 40 % of the decline could be attributed to water resources development, such as diverting water for irrigation that would otherwise flow into the lake.

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter found evidence that flowing water causes suspicious dark streaks on the Red Planet

And it's still finding evidence that water flowed on Mars — but not recently.

Along with finding evidence of flowing water in the past, «the question of the existence of life on Mars was intensified,» NASA wrote of Mariner 9.

While Opportunity and other Martian probes have found ample evidence that liquid water once flowed on the red planet, explaining how the water became liquid is a trickier prospect.

Mark Murray, engineer at the U.S. Naval Academy, found that the saw - tooth - like bumps (called tubercles) running up the edge of a humpback whale's fin make the creatures perform better in low - flow water.

In experiments, the researchers pumped water through a graphene membrane treated with both defect - sealing and pore - producing processes, and found that water flowed through at rates comparable to current desalination membranes.

Between the evidence of past flowing water on Mars, Titan's hydrocarbon lakes, Europa's underground ocean, and Enceladus, it seems increasingly probable we'll find life somewhere else in the solar system.