Sentences with phrase «icy surface causes»

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.

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Eventually, sometime about 2.5 billion years ago, the weight of the sediments caused the lake's icy ceiling to collapse, sending immense amounts of water to the surface, the researchers propose online this month in Icarus.

Schimdt has found evidence that warm ocean currents and convective forces beneath Europa's frozen shell can cause large blocks of ice to overturn and melt, bringing vast pockets of water, sometimes holding as much liquid as all of the Great Lakes combined, to within several kilometers of the moon's icy surface.

Here is what scientists think is happening: when Ceres swings through the part of its orbit that is closer to the sun, a portion of its icy surface becomes warm enough to cause water vapor to escape in plumes at a rate of about 6 kilograms (13 pounds) per second.

And as icy as Pluto's surface is, researchers suspect the cause is a freezing ocean underneath.

As tides raised by Jupiter in Europa's ocean rise and fall, they may cause cracking, additional heating, and even venting of water vapor into the airless sky above Europa's icy surface.

When planetary scientists started studying the photographs and data from Voyager and the subsequent Galileo mission that studied the Jovian system during the 1990s and early 2000s, they confirmed this notion: these ridges, or lineae, are fructures, or cracks, on Europa's icy surface, caused be the intense tidal forces of the massive, nearby Jupiter and the orbital resonances with the other nearby moons.

Just as our moon's gravity squeezes and stretches the Earth a bit, causing the oceans to rise and fall, Saturn's massive gravitational pull squeezes and stretches its tiny moon, causing cracks on its icy surface to open and allowing water to shoot out.

The Galileo mission that studied the Jovian system during the 1990s and early 2000s confirmed the scientists» speculations that these ridges were fractures, or cracks, on Europa's icy surface, caused be the intense tidal forces of the massive, nearby Jupiter and the orbital resonances with the other nearby moons of the Jovian system.

It would seem logical that icy cold water would be the best choice to cool the pet rapidly, but it will actually cause capillaries at the surface of the skin to close.

Their inability to come to stop quickly is often a leading factor of many truck crashes especially when other motorists are driving erratically or the trucker is negotiating slippery, wet or icy road surface conditions.Faulty truck brakes and defective tires cause many accident fatalities as does fatigue by truck drivers hurrying to deliver their load on schedule.

Some examples include a guest falling down stairs because of a loose floorboard, someone slipping and falling on a wet or icy surface, or your pets or children injuring another person or causing excessive property damage.

Some examples of things for which you may be held liable include injuries caused by a slip and fall on a wet or icy surface, or if your pet or child injures another person or causes property damage to a third party.