Sentences with phrase «from surface»

«The animals emit a remarkably effective dim glow from their bellies that exactly matches the intensity and color of sunlight penetrating from the surface,» Widder explains, «so they aren't easily seen by predators swimming below them.»

A meteorite blasted from the surface of Mars contains traces of water, according to a new study.

The close - up image was taken about 1.5 hours before New Horizons closest approach to Pluto, when the craft was 47,800 miles (77,000 kilometers) from the surface of the planet.

It carries bubbles from the surface and traps them beneath a dome - shaped web, spun between underwater plants.

The area boasts the world's warmest ocean temperatures and vents massive volumes of warm gases from the surface high into the atmosphere, which may shape global climate and air chemistry enough to impact billions of people worldwide.

A crucial process has been identified to explain the reason why dissolved organic carbon (DOC) levels in the deep oceans are constant despite a continuous supply from the surface ocean.

They found that jets of gas and dust erupt from the surface frequently, about once a week.

The ozone concentrations in his measurements remained nearly constantly below the detection limit of approx. 10 ppbv in the entire vertical range from the surface of Earth to an altitude of around 15 kilometres.

It absorbs and reemits some light from the surface, but it also emits its own UV light, making it difficult to identify where the photons originated, says Bart de Pontieu, the science lead for IRIS at the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory in Palo Alto, Calif..

However, with the continuous DOC supply from the surface oceans, concentrations in the deep sea are not increasing.

«We have used a droplet of water to measure the water - repellent properties of a surface by recording the very tiny nanonewton force when the droplet touches the surface and when it separates from the surface.

The equipment, fastidiously prepared to make sure that it does not contaminate the lake with microbes from the surface, was approved last year by the parties to the Antarctic Treaty.

For the first time, researchers have watched relatively cool parcels of plasma speed away from the surface of the sun and off into space, all the while cocooned in a million - degree flare.

David W. J. Thompson of Colorado State University and Susan Solomon of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration examined 30 years of climate data collected from surface stations and from weather balloons launched from sites around Antarctica.

With gene - editing tools such as CRISPR, scientists can now eliminate immune - provoking sugars from the surface of pig cells, introduce human genes that regulate blood coagulation to prevent dangerous clots, and snip out viral sequences that some fear could infect a human host.

The two antibodies encounter the virus while it's still in the bloodstream, and bind to glycoproteins (proteins to which carbohydrate chains are attached) that project from its surface.

View of Pluto and Charon from the surface of one of the new moons, as seen in this artist's conception.

«It is impossible to remove the hourglass channel from the surface of the crystal.»

A filament — a serpentine structure consisting of dense solar material and often associated with solar eruptions — rose from the surface, gaining energy and speed as it soared.

I would love to have, within my lifetime, actual rocks picked up from the surface of Mars to examine in my laboratory.

In 1975, Venera 9 became the first probe to send back pictures from the surface of another planet: fuzzy images of the rock - strewn Venusian landscape.

Even with advances in drillingtechniques, it is difficult to obtain samples from wells that have notbeen contaminated by air or water from the surface.

Most of the photons come straight back from the surface of the sample, but some of them tunnel into the interior instead.

Outflow of water vapour has been detected from the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres, which is in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Isolated from the surface for eons, these organisms have beenliving in environments presumed impossible — oil wells, aquifers, anddeep rock.

They showed dust grains being ejected from the surface, arcs that could be traced back, presumably, to geysers of sublimating ice.

To find good candidates, Marzari is subjecting more than 150,000 known materials to what he calls «computational peeling»: calculating how much energy it would take to separate a single layer from the surface of an ordinary crystal.

Next down the chain is Loihi, an underwater volcano southeast of the Big Island that's less than 3,100 feet from the surface and rising.

Pellets are often found in the stomach content of seabirds like fulmars, which feed from the surface of the sea.

These huge bacterial populations, says Hayes, could only have survived if decaying organic material sank very slowly from the surface.

On the first mission it traveled from the surface to about 15m.

«With our process, we can remove aluminium particles from the surface layer, and thereby obtain a significantly purer surface, which is much more tolerable for the human body.

These unstable particles can be specifically removed from the surface of a metal by a targeted etching.

An increased percentage, over 59 %, had the opposite effect, that is to say, the ethanol interacted more strongly with the guaiacol, driving the molecule into the solution away from the surface,» Friedman continues.

To gather rough dates, «we've always had the rock record» from the surface, Shirey says.

Because the «nanoscale - sculpturing» process not only creates a 3D surface structure, which can be purely physically bonded without chemicals, the targeted etching can also remove harmful particles from the surface, which is of particularly great interest in medical technology.

They aerate and enrich the soil by digging tunnels and carrying nutrients down from the surface.

The research paper's lead author, Mahado Ismail of the University of Surrey, explained, «Surface mass spectrometry is used in a wide range of disciplines to obtain chemical information from the surface of a sample.

The big question is how large must the balls be to fall through the flow of oil and gas, To find out, Wattenburg suggests using a connection from the surface to the so - called blow - out preventer (BOP) on top of the well to pump in steel balls with a range of diameters up to about 3.8 centimeters (1.5 inches).

So deep, in fact, that this material was probably isolated from the surface for almost all of Earth's history.

Real - world data back the claim: Accumulations of calcium carbonate in deep - sea Pacific sediments show that the Pliocene ocean experienced huge shifts at the time, with waters churning all the way from the surface down to about three kilometers deep, as would be expected from a conveyor belt — type circulation.

«It could help you predict which intermediates have a long lifetime on the surface, which ones could move around, adsorb or desorb from the surface, leading to a product distribution that might not be what you want.

This new method, which extracts analytes from a surface and separates them using chromatography, has been shown to provide a sensitive, accurate result.

It may evaporate from the surface and condense in the atmosphere to form clouds, which in turn release rain.

Much of the oil has already vanished from surface waters, and so far the most visible effects have been oiled seabirds, turtles and salt - marsh fringes.

Untersee is a good model for Mars, he says, because it is supplied by subglacial melt — water that accumulates at the bottom of an ice pile — rather than from surface melting, which does not occur on Mars.

About three minutes after the probe landed, it picked up a tendril of methane wafting from the surface, as if the probe's heat were boiling some of the liquid trapped just below.

During this process, it is critical to identify the depth from the surface at which these measurements were taken.

Here we report an iridium oxide / strontium iridium oxide (IrOx / SrIrO3) catalyst formed during electrochemical testing by strontium leaching from surface layers of thin films of SrIrO3.

Away from a surface, it can diffuse in all directions, but close to a surface diffusion becomes restricted and the current falls (see Diagram).