Sentences with phrase «ice planet of»

The environment design is faithful to the subject matter as it includes iconic environments from Star Wars films such as the remote desert planet of Jakku and the ice planet of Starkiller Base containing a deadly energy weapon within the core of the planet, while a new feature which generally sets environments apart from this game in comparison to other LEGO games is the introduction of multi-build paths that effectively allows players to build an object to complete a new objective or reach a new area, dismantle it, then re-build it as an alternative object in order to complete another new objective or reach another new area.

Last time, I talked about Lost Planet, a game that didn't age well in some spots, but it's still a fun, if brief, romp through the bug infested ice planet of Hoth * checks notes * I mean E.D.N. III.

Dead Space 3 has standard shotguns and assault rifles — the same kind used by the game's human enemies, the first of which I spot in a valley on the ice planet of Tau Volantis.

The ice planet of E.D.N. 3 has an average temperature of -120 degrees Centigrade, and a new Lost Planet 3 trailer describes exactly what happens to the human body at those temperatures.

LUKE SKYWALKER Goal Mask: With designs from Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, this goal mask features X-Wing pilot Luke Skywalker equipped for battle on the ice planet of Hoth, the location of the Rebel Alliance base.

Published on Aug. 28 in Nature Communications, the research revealed an entirely new type of superionic ice that they call the P21 / c - SI phase, which occurs at pressures even higher than in the interior of giant ice planets of our solar system.

Not exact matches

Finally: You're experiencing a cold snowy scene in Greenland beneath a piercing blue sky, gazing up warily as huge chunks of glacier plunge down, right in front of you, into a raging river of ice floes which could have sunk another Titantic, but now, in the modern day, are emblematic of what is sinking Planet Earth.

Lurking between Mars and Jupiter is the largest asteroid in the solar system: a dwarf planet called Ceres, which has ice volcanoes, salt deposits, and other features that suggest it's hiding an ocean of salt water.

One possible strategy for making Mars habitable over the long term is to «terraform» it — manipulate its environment so, in the simplest terms, the planet warms up, ice turns into water, and plants can be introduced, which will convert the atmospheric carbon dioxide into oxygen, with the goal of creating a stable and breathable atmosphere.

The single cell organism has an ancestor who probably came to earth frozen ice attached to a meteor that was blown off a distant plant due to some sort of plantary collision between a comet and a planet or two planets, or even a large meter collision... Evolution does not require that you believe to exist, it simply exists.

Some of the methods used to determine the age of the planet include: Stratigraphy, Dendrochronology, Obsidian Hydration Dating, Paleomagnetic / Archaeomagnetic, Luminescence Dating, Amino Acid Racemization, Fission - track Dating, Ice Cores, Cation Ratio, Fluorine Dating, Patination, oxidizable Carbon Ratio, Electron Spin Resonance, and Cosmic - ray Exposure Dating.

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.

We are a Goldie Loc's Planet 2 - we got the right of land to water ratio 3 - the moon is at the right size and orbit to prevent the earth from wobbling 4 - the gas giants in our solar system do a great job at cleaning up roaming ice and rock that is flying around our solar system 5 - right distance from the galactic core.

Mint chewing gum, mint chip ice cream, and candy canes could have disappeared off the face of the planet and I wouldn't have shed a tear.

It seems as if all the senses are engaged when taking a bite — every spoonful of that ice cream transports me onto a different planet.

In this case, though, it's hard to suggest that the push for inclusion would be prioritized as much if it weren't possible to slap an ice - cold bottle of high - fructose corn syrup in the hands of literally everyone on the planet.

But more than just a party staple, ice is a significant part of our planet and the universe — a fundamental substance that deeply affects us, and may even be connected to the origins of life.

The newly discovered exposure of ice on steep banks suggests that the Red Planet's ice sheets are buried by just a meter or two of soil, researchers report in Science January 12.

The sea is just 5 ° north of the Martian equator and would be the first discovery of a large body of water beyond the planet's polar ice caps.

TRAPPIST - 1's planets are so wet that most of the water probably isn't even liquid, but ice formed under high pressure, says Cayman Unterborn, an exogeologist at Arizona State University in Tempe.

Telescopes spied water in ice caps at the Red Planet's poles, as well as signs of an ancient ocean covering the northern hemisphere.

New calculations of the composition of TRAPPIST - 1f, the fifth planet from the star, suggest a relatively thin layer of water (still far deeper than anything found on Earth) gives way to ice VI and ice VII, two different forms of ice that can form under high pressures.

There is abundant evidence for the past presence of water on Mars but today it appears relatively dry, with water ice confined to the planet's polar caps.

The discovery of waterlogged minerals and a growing ice wall suggests that the dwarf planet could harbor underground liquid water or slushy brine, which has escaped through cracks and craters in the recent past and may still be seeping out today.

That's because the dwarf planet's sparse atmosphere is thickest at lowest elevation, making condensation of the ices most effective there.

New estimates of the planets» composition indicates that several are enveloped in water and ice.

The fifth and sixth planets, both in the habitable zone, are more than half water — a volume so large that the water pressure alone could force much of it into a form of ice, Unterborn says.

Deep within the hot interior of the planet, ice lurks.

The thick covering of ice and water might mess up some of the geological processes that, at least on Earth, help regulate the planet's temperature over long periods of time.

Most of the Red Planet's ice is at the poles, but photos have identified signs of buried ice towards the equator.

Each of the three Planet Pixies represents an endangered environment: marsh, ice, and forest.

In the process, they might identify a planet's surface features — such as oceans, continents, ice caps and even cloudbanks — and detect the presence of biomarkers like oxygen, methane and water.

Over hundreds or thousands of years, vast ice sheets can melt away, further decreasing the planet's reflectivity.

«If we can understand the chemical complexity of these ices in the molecular cloud, and how they evolve during the formation of a star and its planets, then we can assess whether the building blocks of life should exist in every star system,» said Melissa McClure of the Universiteit van Amsterdam, the principal investigator on a research project to investigate cosmic ices.

At the ends of the Solar System, beyond the orbit of Neptune, there is a belt of objects composed of ice and rocks, among which four dwarf planets stand out: Pluto, Eris, Makemake and Haumea.

Without those rare ice - forming triggers, much of the planet would see less precipitation than it does today.

Unlike Earth, which has two magnetic poles (north and south), ice giants can have many local magnetic poles, which leading theories suggest may be due to superionic ice and ionic water in the mantle of these planets.

Scientists have proposed that heat emanating outward from the planet's core may pass through an inner layer of superionic ice, and through convection, create vortices on the outer layer of ionic water that give rise to local magnetic fields.

A recently discovered solitary ice volcano on the dwarf planet Ceres may have some hidden older siblings, say scientists who have tested a likely way such mountains of icy rock — called cryovolcanoes — might disappear over millions of years.

With territories stretching from Arctic ice to south of the equator, the eight members of Ursidae include the planet's largest land predators — and a seriously sketchy family tree.

Today the small amount of water detected on the planet is locked in the polar ice caps, but recently discovered geological features suggest liquid water once flowed on its surface.

Scientists from Rice University and Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi's Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies have discovered that Earth's sea level did not rise steadily but rather in sharp, punctuated bursts when the planet's glaciers melted during the period of global warming at the close of the last ice age.

Ever since, it has been returning stunning images of the planet's surface along with evidence of water and carbon dioxide ice.

Some Mars scientists have suggested quickly evaporating carbon dioxide ice could have triggered rockslides, forming gullies elsewhere on the planet, but that's a less popular theory, says team member Sanjeev Gupta of Imperial College London.

Although Mercury's daytime temperatures exceed 800 degrees Fahrenheit, radar studies indicate that the planet has vast deposits of ice within the perpetually dark, frigid craters at its poles.

If the planet is covered by an immense amount of water, the pressure at the bottom of the ocean will increase to such an extent that water occurs in the form of «Ice VII,» which does not exist on Earth.

Large areas of the Earth's surface are experiencing rising maximum temperatures, which affect virtually every ecosystem on the planet, including ice sheets and tropical forests that play major roles in regulating the biosphere, scientists have reported.

Durable proteins make life possible in the crushing depths of the ocean, and may have evolved in life below the surface of ice - bound oceanic exo - planets.

The auroras on Jupiter and Saturn are well - studied, but not much is known about the auroras of the giant ice planet Uranus.

I spend a lot of time studying the ice sheets at the bottom of the planet — how they form and how they collapse.