Sentences with phrase «ice cracking on»

At the end of August, NASA reported an ice crack on Ward Hunt Island that is 40 metres deep and the size of Bermuda.

Not exact matches

Getting the audience to laugh (or at least crack a smile) early on is a great way to break the ice.

Cracking an emerging market This summer companies that want to exploit the increasingly favorable economics offered by UAS will, for the first time, be able to lay the groundwork for expanded operations beneath, above, around and on the Arctic ice.

@user5751924 — Russian exports (either via out - sourcing, or emigration, or malware, or cracking) of computer programming talent are on the scale of rocket launches, diamonds, and ice - breaking services — not on the scale of oil, steel, and natural gas.

Arctic sea ice is thinning and cracking, say researchers on two continents.

This lottery has inadvertently accumulated almost a century of data on the river's thaw, and a recent analysis of town records shows that the ice cracks about 5 days earlier than it used to.

Icebergs that have calved off the edge of the glacier are visible floating out to sea — but so are cracks hundreds of kilometers inland from Jakobshavn, on what would otherwise be a flat expanse of ice.

The winding, parallel cracks, which resemble ridges on a fingerprint, are signs that the ice is accelerating, Howat explained.

As the sun retreats behind the mountains during the summertime, the ice on the lake expands, causing popping and cracking sounds that resemble a shotgun being fired.

Was it rock grinding on rock, ice groaning over ice, or, perhaps, hot gases and liquid rock forcing their way through cracks in a volcanic complex?

On a day in January, dead grasses bristle with ice along the edges of long cracks in the earth, and wisps of gas drift here and there.

The main argument of the Doubting Thomases has always been that the chemical signs of fossil life in Martian meteorites are really terrestrial contaminants; perhaps microbe - laden water seeped into cracks in the rocks after they landed on the Antarctic ice.

Skating on congelation ice does still cause cracks.

«If ice caps and glaciers were to continue to crack and break into pieces, [the amount of] their surface area that is exposed to air would be significantly increased, which could lead to accelerated melting and much - reduced coverage area on the Earth,» Buehler said in a statement.

So it is possible that a crack has opened up on the comet's nucleus, which is less than about 3 kilometres across, exposing fresh ice to the Sun.

That's when the cracks are so big that there is plenty of give in the ice and you should not be on the lake.

Meltwater ponds formed on the surface of the Larsen B shelf and weakened the ice as they pushed downward, causing it to crack and splinter apart.

It is, however, extremely vulnerable: made principally of water ice, cracks on its opposite side show that a past impact came close to shattering it.

It is thought that this ice is coming up through features called dilational bands, which are long cracks on the surface.

Advocates of embryo - destructive research and related practices, in particular, are treading on a very thin layer of ice that could easily crack beneath them if some new development underscores the ethical questions surrounding such research, rather than the potential for medical progress alone.

Deep cracks and fissures are also common on Europa, where the ice shell also overlies a global subsurface ocean.

In hydrofracturing — the process implicated in the infamous break - up of the Larsen B ice shelf in 2002 — rainfall or meltwater that pools on the glacier's surface drains into cracks.

To keep the icing for these chewy morsels from cracking, spread it on while the cookies are still hot.

Imagine a perfect spring afternoon: the sun is bright overhead, the air is soft with a light breeze whispering by, and you're lazily sipping an iced tea on the patio of your favorite cafe, with a fresh book cracked open and hours to yourself to get lost.

Holding back, the police warn him of the danger but he carries on as the ice cracks around him.

In the latter category, there are Pam (Jason Mantzoukas), a gun - toting shopkeeper who sells drugs to kids out of an ice cream truck, and Jason's cousin Nick (Adam Pally), a younger version of Dick who shows up on crutches during the movie's climax for no apparent reason (It might seem like a useless point to raise, but the screenplay somehow lacks logical consistency, such as when Jason scolds Dick for smoking the «gateway drug» of marijuana after the grandson smoked crack earlier).

Ice cold AC, Cruise and Tilt, There is a crack on the front bumper but down low...

The wolf boy, the wild child, the strange feral creature appeared early one spring as the iced - over streams started to crack and the blown snow on the steppes was melting.

But unless you're a massive «Pure Google» fan, we'd suggest your call St Nick up on Boxing Day, ask if he had the receipt still, point out you'd been exceptionally good this year, then go swap it for a Galaxy S2 — or wait to see what the rest of the manufacturers manage when their creative bods get cracking with Ice Cream Sandwich.

Depending on the policy, covered perils can include: fire or lightning; windstorm or hail; an explosion; riot or civil commotion; damaged caused by aircraft; damage caused by vehicles; smoke; vandalism or malicious mischief; theft; volcanic eruption; falling objects; weight of ice, snow or sleet; accidental overflow of water from within a plumbing, heating air conditioning or automatic fire protection system; sudden and accidental tearing apart, cracking, burning or bulging of a steam system, heating system, air conditioning or automatic fire protection system; freezing of plumbing and other systems; and damages from artificially generated electrical currents.

Dogs with badly cracked pads should not walk on snow or ice in winter without boots or protection - as the salt from sidewalks or roads can be agony in a deep crack.

- a lot of focus was put on sound effects in order to immerse players in the world of Hyrule - the development team worked with Sound Racer, a studio specialized in sound effects - this studio also worked on Xenoblade Chronicles X - they recorded more than 10 000 different sounds for the game - the team used a school bag to simulate the sound of rubbing leather - for the sound of «normal» footsteps, they mixed various kinds of sands - for the sounds of equipment, they had to search for various materials and find ways to use them - they used an actual block of ice to recreate the sound of footsteps on ice - with the ice block, it always ended up melting, or getting cracks when the staff had to walk on it - Link's footsteps were made by a woman - depending on Link's actions and the equipment he's using / wearing, the recorded sounds were separated out individually - the volume is changed as needed to make a particular sound stand out - check out sound effect samples here

Nintendo EAD, the game's closeted, Tokyo - based crack team of inventors may have retreated from the buckshot heavens once explored in the Wii's Super Mario Galaxy titles, settling once again on terra firma (even if, predictably enough, it's often covered in ice or lava)-- but what a world.

Through the cracked ice of a massive iceberg and bullet hole in a glass window, he comes to the works based on the X-rays of paintings by van Gogh and the Old Masters.

This is the normal life cycle for a meltwater pond that forms from snow and ice, and eventually drains through cracks or hole through the ice it has pooled on.

I start by noting some of the unnerving situations I've been in while reporting about climate change and related issues — sitting with a murderous cattle rancher on his porch deep in the Amazon rain forest, camping on cracking sea ice floating on the 14,000 - foot - deep Arctic Ocean a few dozen miles from the North Pole.

The video report I posted above is drawn from footage I shot five years ago, when I was lucky enough to land with an intrepid crew of scientists on the drifting, cracking, huffing, chugging sea ice drifting around the North Pole.

The stunning blue meltwater lake that formed on the Arctic ice disappeared on Monday (July 29), draining through a crack in the underlying ice floe.

Numerous processes contribute to this, including the removal of buttressing ice shelves (i.e., ice tongues floating on water but in places anchored on islands or underwater rocks) or the lubrication of the ice sheet base by meltwater trickling down from the surface through cracks.

Newspapers had the resources to send reporters to the far ends of the Earth, as The Times did in 2003 when I got to camp on drifting, cracking North Pole sea ice with a research team.

At a Russian tourist camp on sea ice floating near the North Pole in 2003, a crack formed in a matter of hours.

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The crack seen in the image of Petermann Glacier (ASTER image provided by Ian Howat of Ohio State) is more of a rift, like those on Larsen Ice Shelf, than a crevasse.

Scientists focused on Antarctica have been keenly observing the rapid progression of a large crack on the ice.

The crack on Larsen C, one of the world's greatest ice shelves found on the northern major ice shelf of the Antarctic Peninsula, is growing to around 350 kilometers.

On top is the brittle layer where cracks (crevasses) form and below the plastic layer where ice flows and annual layers blend and are deformed.

NASA's DC - 8 flies across the crack forming across the Pine Island Glacier ice shelf on Oct. 26, 2011.

Scientists have found that on the Greenland Ice Sheet, the melt water penetrates through cracks in the ice down to the bedroIce Sheet, the melt water penetrates through cracks in the ice down to the bedroice down to the bedrock.

the ice breaking date is the rather dramatic date that the first crack appears on the frozen river.

New 2016/17 crack near the center of Petermann Gletscher's ice shelf as reported by Washington Post on Apr. - 14, 2017.