Sentences with phrase «icy surface»

The seemingly bleak icy surfaces of these moons are in fact among the most active landscapes in the solar system.

It might also be tough for him to keep his balance on icy surfaces with longer nails.

Dogs can sustain cuts or abrasions from icy surfaces including the crust on top of snow.

WinterLab is the ultimate cold weather simulator, complete with icy surfaces, a snow - making machine and a mean wind fan.

Watching in ultraviolet light, in which Europa's icy surface appears dark, they looked for silhouettes of any plumes contrasted against Jupiter's bright, smooth cloudscapes.

That's why moons such as Jupiter's Europa and Saturn's Enceladus, among others, may be able to maintain liquid oceans beneath their thick icy surfaces.

Graphically, Tomb Raider and Lara Croft has never looked this amazing before as particle effects will shimmer in light, cinematic water effects look real as Lara fights against currents and beautifully immersive environments are complimented by amazingly detailed character models even down to the movement of Lara's hair in tandem with what she is doing in that very moment and animations such as climbing up mountains, shimmying across ledges and using climbing axes to grip onto icy surfaces.

It also introduced the new Propellor Mario and Pengiun Mario power - ups, allowing players to gain great height in the air or quickly slid along icy surfaces.

SSX draws and colors them differently, and thanks to some clever gimmickry based on lighting, bottomless pits, altitude sickness, deadly obstacles to forward momentum, hard icy surfaces, and even lethal temperatures, the locations play differently.

Now, Waite is interested in applying mass spectrometry to determine Europa's surface composition, data that could clarify how the moon's icy surface interacts with the liquid oceans below.

Designed for wearing at work but flexible enough for a quick hike around town as well, the Santiago shoes use materials made mostly of leather with a rubber sole that can handle slick icy surfaces.

More icy surface area means faster chilling and less dilution, so we crack the cubes instead of using them whole.

Most meteor showers are thought to come from comets, whose icy surfaces vaporise easily during close encounters with the sun.

In 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied jets of water ice and vapor erupting into space from fissures on Enceladus, evidence of a salty ocean beneath the saturnian moon's placid icy surface.

It has been known for quite some time that red pigmented snow algae blooming on icy surfaces darken the surface which in turn leads to less albedo and a higher uptake of heat.

Philae's job is to sample the pristine icy surface, looking for clues to the origins of Earth's oceans and life itself.

Those exocomets also produce a lot more gas than typical comets do, a peculiarity that the researchers say could indicate that they have fresh icy surfaces prolifically evaporating.

Most likely, scientists have proposed, the tidal flexing induced in a moon's icy surface causes cracks in polar regions to open widest while the satellite is farthest from its parent planet but clamp shut at other times.

Scientists were already fairly confident in the ocean's existence, based on the moon's smooth icy surface — evidence of past resurfacing by the ocean — and other observations by the Galileo spacecraft, which made a handful of flybys in the 1990s.

As it orbits, Europa's icy surface heaves and falls with the pull of Jupiter's gravity, creating enough heat, scientists think, to support a global ocean beneath the moon's solid shell.

It currently reigns as the most distant dwarf planet with a nearly uniform icy surface containing methane and nitrogen ice.

The prime mission plan includes 40 to 45 flybys, during which the spacecraft would image the moon's icy surface at high resolution and investigate its composition and the structure of its interior and icy shell.

The cracked icy surface of Europa.

Fissures and ridges like these on Europa's icy surface appear to be locations for the Europan equivalent of plate tectonics, new research shows.

One of Jupiter's finest, the thick icy surface had previously put astronomers off the scent.

Also first year snow is pretty prous, so the meltwater can percolate through the snow, rather than flowing on a hard icy surface.

From miles above the surface, the instruments on board will survey the structure, temperature, and chemical composition of the moon's icy surface and underground ocean.

On May 26, NASA announced a suite of instruments that will accompany the spacecraft they're designing to send to Europa — a moon four times smaller than Earth that scientists suspect could harbor a deep, vast, salty ocean beneath its thick, icy surface.

Instead, 30 seconds into the second run, Shiffrin's left ski lost its grip on the icy surface and flapped into the air.

When the weather gets cold, it's helpful for kids to wear high - quality shoes that will protect their feet on crunchy leaves and icy surfaces.

Alien microbes could, in theory, feast beneath the icy surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus.

Combined with its icy surface and penchant for spewing water and ammonia into space, the moon ought to have a crust of ice, a watery mantle and a core of solid rock.

His Astrophysical Ice Laboratory simulated Pluto's icy surface to help astronomers understand what they were looking at.

Europa is thought to be a potential cauldron for life because an ocean where it could evolve is believed to sit beneath its icy surface.

As our P - 3 flying research laboratory skimmed above the icy surface of the Weddell Sea, I was glued to the floor.

In the foreground, craters are visible on the icy surface of Rhea.

Since then, scientists have hypothesized that a large reservoir of water lies beneath that icy surface, possibly fueling the plumes.

«Europa is thought to be a potential cauldron for life because an ocean sits beneath its icy surface»

And like Triton, it seems to have streaks made by wind marring its icy surface.

The southern pole of Saturn's 300 - mile - wide moon spits an average of 56 gallons of water a second into space via geysers in its icy surface.

Pluto, demoted to a dwarf planet in 2006, likely has a hard, icy surface — not great for powder skiing like this poster shows.

Under the icy surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus, a liquid ocean launches water plumes through the cracks.

But Enceladus, which probably has an ocean underlying its icy surface, has somehow managed to sprout multiple fissures along its south pole.

This view is a composite of images taken in 1995 and 1998, color enhanced to show details of the cracks and ridges that stretch across Europa's icy surface.

Europa is reckoned to be a potential cauldron for life because an ocean where life could evolve is believed to lurk beneath its icy surface.

They include a robotic arm to scoop samples and others to analyze the chemistry of the Jovian moon's icy surface (SN: 5/17/14, p. 20).

ONTO THE ICE This image from the Galileo spacecraft shows the icy surface of Europa.

Around the south pole of Enceladus — a 500 - kilometer - wide runt of a moon many expected to be rather inert and uninteresting — the orbiter saw tantalizing signs of activity — plumes of water vapor venting into space from fissures in the icy surface.

The smooth, icy surface of Telesto sets it apart from most other Saturnian moons, which are heavily cratered.