Sentences with phrase «in volcano extreme»

Not exact matches

1994: Dante II Built by NASA and Carnegie Mellon, Dante I became the first robot to walk inside a volcano — Mount Erebus in Antarctica — but after 20 feet of exploration, it failed due to the extreme cold.

The eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano has largely shut down air travel in Europe, but it is just an extreme version of a relatively common occurrence

A study recently published in Nature suggests that an extreme global warming event 56 million years ago known as the Palaeocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) was driven by massive CO2 emissions from volcanoes during the formation of the North Atlantic Ocean.

For instance, for a story in which an act of nature plays a prominent role, students may want to investigate extreme weather patterns or use Google Earth to peer into the crater of a volcano.

On our new winter journey, experience the extreme contrasts of Iceland's fire and ice as we trek across snow - covered fields shrouded in geothermal steam, weather sub-zero temperatures from the warmth of outdoor thermal baths, and take in views of a glacier - capped volcano.

There are a number a ancient sights to see in the area including temples and palaces as well as areas of extreme natural beauty showcasing the classic Balinese and Indonesian landscapes of rice paddies that stretch over the lowlands where you will also find coconut groves and carve out the hills leading up to mountains and volcanoes which are covered in tropical forests, lakes and rivers.

As described in a previous post earlier this year, Mann et al., 2012 (pdf), postulated that for extreme volcanoes, the cooling would be sufficient to saturate the growth response, and that some trees might «skip» a ring for that year leading to a slight slippage in tree - ring dating, a potential smearing of the composite chronologies, and a further underestimate of the cooling in tree - ring based large - scale reconstructions.

Meanwhile, Britain's leading independent long range weather forecaster, Piers Corbyn, speaking on his WeatherAction.com website reports, «the world is now in one of its most extreme solar - lunar driven weather and earthquake / volcano events situations for at least 66 years and very likely twice that.»

In fact it proves AGW since more frequent, more extreme events like this volcano are EXACTLY is predicted by global warming computer models.

According to scientists, this could put into motion a chain reaction of geologic activity that might endanger a nearby wildlife preserve, as well as potentially causing Katla, another neighbouring volcano to erupt - which could set off an extreme winter in the United States.

You can do it in the Highschool Science Project way, thanks to the same CalTech site — which seems a little extreme, given that model volcanoes are easier and more dramatic — or you can simply cut them out of paper according to a series of folds and snips diagrammed online.