Sentences with phrase «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.

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.

The plot was original and thought - provoking so it is a pity Cornwell chose to pad the text with technical details of things like helicopter flight procedures and CT scans, which might only be of interest to technophiles, as well as trivial minutiae of driving a car and walking on icy surfaces.

Pirelli's Temperature Dynamic Compound technology optimizes the compounds for wet and icy surfaces to provide improved traction in winter's near freezing and lower temperatures.

Technologies drawn from XE include All - Surface Progress Control — a smart low - speed (up to 30km / h) traction control system that Jaguars say can provide most of the benefits of all - wheel drive even on icy surfaces.

[1] In front - wheel - drive cars the mass of the drivetrain is placed over the driven wheels and thus moves the centre of gravity farther forward than a comparable rear - wheel - drive layout, improving traction and directional stability on wet, snowy, or icy surfaces.

Even more magic lies within the Golf R's AWD system, since brake - based electronic front and rear differentials can vary torque from one side of the car to the other depending on available traction, such as on icy surfaces.

Zigzag sipes increase the number of biting edges, and the hydrophilic coating absorbs a micron - thin layer of water that improves traction on icy surfaces.

All have icy surfaces, but they are darker and rockier than Saturn's moons.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

«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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The tiny moon Enceladus, which has a liquid sea below its icy surface and spews geysers of water into space, set behind Saturn as Cassini watched:

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

Ice - encrusted Europa is the most likely moon in the entire solar system to have harbored life, perhaps in oceans beneath the icy surface.

«An ocean lies a few kilometers beneath Saturn's moon Enceladus's icy surface.»

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.

Such active geology suggests that Europa's icy surface is connected to its buried ocean — creating a possible pathway for salts, minerals and maybe even microbes to get from the ocean to the surface and back again.

«This is the first time water vapor has been unequivocally detected on Ceres or any other object in the asteroid belt and provides proof that Ceres has an icy surface and an atmosphere,» said Michael Küppers of ESA in Spain, lead author of a paper in the journal Nature.

Its icy surface was as white and bright as fresh snow, and whereas the other airless moons were heavily pocked with craters, Enceladus was mantled in places with extensive plains of smooth, uncratered terrain, a clear sign of past internally driven geologic activity.

Like a cosmic lava lamp, a large section of Pluto's icy surface is renewed by a process called convection that replace older ices with fresher material.

«For the first time, we can really determine what these strange welts of the icy surface of Pluto really are,» said William B. McKinnon, professor of earth an planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, who led the study.

Studying creatures that live in extreme climates gives researchers insight into the sort of life that could survive below the icy surface of Europa, illustrated above.

In particular, sensors that could analyze the chemical composition of the plumes, either remotely or by sampling the material as it whizzed through the vapor, could provide keen insights into the chemical processes taking place on or deep beneath Europa's icy surface.

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.

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.

«Warm water was there, but deep under the cold, icy surface.

Last June astronomers added another wild detail to the profile: a global ocean buried beneath the icy surface.

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.

Astronomers digitally deconstructed a region of Europa and reassembled the «puzzle pieces» of the icy surface by lining up the cracks.