Sentences with phrase «in rocky waters»

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We are a lake family — oh, we like the ocean's power and salt, we appreciate a pool's purpose, but we're who we were meant to be in the cool water from the mountains, surrounded by rocky shores.

I mourn for the ones that will never know the magic of playing mermaids by an old lake shore, drawing out elaborate sagas of the life aquatic on the rocky beach, slipping in and out of water, convinced of a glittery tail.

I can't imagine breathing well in the east, I need the place where I am, I need these mountains, I need the ocean now, I need the cold lake water, I need rocky shores.

My workshop is squeezed in between a river and a canal, and the sense of being surrounded by water, rocky steep - sided valleys and open moorland is impossible to ignore — it's these natural textures, subtle hues and rugged lines that emerge in my jewellery.

The sense of being surrounded by water, rocky steep - sided valleys and open moorland is impossible to ignore — it's these natural textures, subtle hues and rugged lines that emerge in my jewellery.

But as for water, schools are now going to have to provide drinking water in cafeterias, although implementing what seems like such a simple requirement is proving rocky for some schools and some are claiming that they need more time to figure out how to do it in a cost - effective way.

Dubbed Kepler 438 b and Kepler 442 b, both planets appear to be rocky and orbit in the not - too - hot, not - too - cold habitable zones of their stars where liquid water can exist in abundance.

The chemicals would have originated in the rocky core of Enceladus, so to reach a plume they must have leached from the core via liquid water.

HD 85512b In September European astronomers announced the discovery of 50 new planets, including one of the most Earthlike ones yet: HD 85512b, a rocky world just 3.6 times as massive as our own and mild enough to have liquid water.

«Carbon dioxide and water in a planet's atmosphere would be signs that a planet might be rocky and habitable, while oxygen and methane would be strong indicators that it may harbor life,» Boss says.

Without a direct analog in the solar system, no one could guess if these newfangled planets were predominantly rocky (Earth - like), gassy (Neptune - like), something in between (water worlds?)

In the icy bodies around our solar system, radiation emitted from rocky cores could break up water molecules and support hydrogen - eating microbes.

Although the methane could have come from the activity of microbes living below the permafrost, an equally plausible explanation is that it came from reactions between minerals and water trapped in rocky layers underneath.

So Proxima b's 11 - day year exposes it to two thirds as much starlight as Earth — enough to place the planet in the middle of its star's «habitable zone,» a temperate circumstellar region where liquid water and life could conceivably exist on a rocky world's surface.

The planet, Kepler 452 b, is likely rocky and orbits in its star's habitable zone where liquid water can exist

Until recently, that rule led scientists to think only in terms of places just like home: temperate, rocky planets with bodies of liquid water on their surfaces.

«These fish seek out rocky areas in clean, fast - flowing water.

It can not tell us if the planets are rocky, have oxygen in their atmosphere, or hold liquid water on their surface.

Researchers report that decreasing water pH — one consequence of rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — dissolves the stony coral's hard skeleton but does not dislodge the soft - bodied polyps from their rocky substrate.

Whether the uranium is stripped out of an open pit like the Ranger mine in Australia, removed from deep underground like McArthur River or chemically leached from its rocky home as at the Smith Ranch - Highland mine in Wyoming (the largest mine in the U.S.), yellowcake is the end product, along with a heap of radioactive tailings and, often, contaminated water.

The small, cool star TRAPPIST - 1 is one of the best places to look for life in the Milky Way: its seven rocky planets might all have water and atmospheres

Among the new additions to the catalog are several small, probably rocky planets that reside in the habitable zone — at a distance from their star that allows liquid water to exist on their surface.

Dippers, which are equipped with a transparent second eyelid (think water goggles for birds), dive below the river's surface and walk the riverbed scouring the rocky floor for meals, mostly aquatic insects in their larval stage.

To qualify as potentially life - friendly, a planet must be relatively small (and therefore rocky) and orbit in the «habitable zone» of its star, which is loosely defined as a location where water can exist in liquid form on a world's surface.

Ever since the first exoplanet was discovered in 1996, astronomers have been scanning the heavens for another Earth: a rocky planet orbiting its star at just the right distance for it to harbor liquid water and thus, potentially, life.

Nestled in a rocky pocket under 4 kilometers of glacial ice, Lake Vostok's waters have never been sampled.

But they fail to explain why Saturn's rings are mostly water ice, while other gas giants» are rocky, says Ryuki Hyodo at Kobe University in Japan.

But in many instances, the simulations show, even planets starting with rocky cores as little as 1.5 Earth's mass may trap and hold atmospheres containing between 100 and 1000 times the amount of hydrogen found in the water in Earth's oceans — thick, dense envelopes exerting pressures so hellish that life on the planets» surfaces might be almost impossible.

Although we are some time off from probing a distant potentially habitable world's atmosphere for the presence of liquid water or chemical traces of life, Kepler - along with supporting observations by other space - and ground - based instrumentation - is giving us a tantalizing hint of the preponderance of small rocky worlds in the Milky Way.

Most of the images from Rosetta have been in black & white, so these colour ones are a nice change and show incredible detail, including patches of water ice on the rocky surface.

Astronomers at the Universities of Cambridge and Warwick say this is the first «reliable evidence» for water - rich, rocky planetary material in any extrasolar planetary system.

Eventually, a stable rocky crust may have developed between Years 0.2 and 0.4 billion (see J. Bret Bennington's discussion of recycled zircons (crystals of zirconium silicate) from the rocks of western Australia in the Hadean Eon and the January 11, 2001 announcement of zircons found north of Perth that appear to be 4.4 billion years old), covered and surrounded by soupy water that was already rich with organic compounds from interstellar space.

«This also rules out comets, which are rich in both water and carbon compounds, so we knew we were looking at a rocky asteroid with substantial water content — perhaps in the form of subsurface ice — like the asteroids we know in our solar system such as Ceres,» Gänsicke said.

Hence, either stars A or B could have one or two «rocky» planets in orbital zones where liquid water is possible.

According to models, the TRAPPIST - 1 system contains three planets in the habitable zone, making it the record holder for stars we know of with rocky planets that could potentially support liquid water, Kaltenegger explained.

This is the first time a white dwarf with nitrogen has been discovered, and one of only a few known examples of white dwarfs that have been impacted by a rocky body that was rich in water ice.

«If there is water in Kuiper belt - like objects around other stars, as there now appears to be, then when rocky planets form they need not contain life's ingredients,» said Siyi Xu, the study's lead author, a postdoctoral scholar at the European Southern Observatory in Germany who earned her doctorate at UCLA.

In order to be warmed sufficiently have liquid water at the surface, an Earth - type rocky planet would have to be located very close to such a cool and dim red dwarf star like CD - 51 5974.

«From the study of exoplanets, we know our solar system isn't unique in having rocky planets and an abundance of water,» concluded Öberg.

In 2009, scientists discovered that the exoplanet Gliese 581d had the potential to support water on its rocky surface.

In particular, they aim to identify rocky, Earthlike orbs that are the within the so - called «Goldilocks zone» — that is, just the right distance from their stars to have surface temperatures that would sustain liquid water, and thus at least make possible the development of life [source: Borucki].

Each planet is rocky, warm, and could contain liquid water — making them great candidates in the search for life elsewhere in the universe.

In 2003, astronomers at the University of Texas at Arlington performed refined calculations to determine that the habitable zone around 47 Ursae Majoris, where an inner rocky planet (with suitable mass and atmospheric gas composition and density) can have liquid water on its surface, lies between 1.05 and 1.83 AUs of the star.

Chemical analysis of the plume indicated the presence of organic and nitrogen - bearing molecules, as well as salts and silicates, which strongly suggest ocean water is in contact with a rocky core.

Despite the fact that red dwarfs are tiny and dim, many of their planets may still be too hot to be habitable — even those situated within a star system's habitable zone, i.e. the zone in which rocky planets can sustain liquid water at the surface.

According to calculations performed for the NASA Star and Exoplanet Database, the distance from 41 Arae B where an Earth - type rocky planet may have liquid water on its surface has been estimated to be between 0.593 and 1.176 AU — between the orbital distances of Mercury and Earth in the Solar System.

Each planet is rocky, warm, and could contain liquid water — making them great candidates in the search for life elsewhere...

One of the few things we know about Proxima b, besides that it is a rocky planet with a mass 1.3 times that of Earth, is that its orbit is in the so - called «Goldilocks zone» of its sun: not too hot nor too cold for liquid water, making it a potential host for life — alien, human or both.

According to calculations performed for the NASA Star and Exoplanet Database, the distance from Ross 128 where an Earth - type rocky planet may have liquid water on its surface has been estimated to be between 0.06 and 0.11 AU — well within the orbital distance of Mercury in the Solar System.

It would appear that these chemicals originated in the rocky core of the moon and were leached from the core via liquid water.