Sentences with phrase «ice under sunlight»
A bit of soot on ice under sunlight allows melting to occur, even when the temperature is 0C.
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Furthermore, they not only break as easily as clays when hit by a load of shot but they shatter in a burst of brilliant color in sunlight or under floodlights at night, and their tracerlike trajectories make ice pigeons easier for shooters to pick up and follow.
Scientists find translucent fish in a wedge of water hidden under 740 meters of ice, 850 kilometers from sunlight
Thick ice reflects incoming sunlight, but the melt ponds can transmit more than 50 % of the light to the waters below, promoting under - ice blooms, he says.
In addition to gaining an intimate understanding of life formerly under the ice, the data will serve as a baseline to see how the area changes as sunlight and open water alters the chemistry and new species migrate in.
Without its ice cover, the Arctic Ocean is warming, especially under 24 hours of sunlight in summer.
This time, ice was generally so thin that sunlight could penetrate and support concentrations of plankton growing under the ice.
Under this scenario, photosynthetic organisms in low - ice or ice - free regions could continue to capture sunlight efficiently and survive these periods of extreme cold.