Sentences with phrase «in thick layers of ice»

SAN FRANCISCO — Ganymede, the largest of Jupiter's moons, probably harbors a deep salty sea entombed in thick layers of ice.

Not exact matches

This tidal energy produces more than enough internal heat to create a global water ocean, possibly as thick in places as 50 kilometers, buried under an outer layer of ice a few kilometers thick.

While most scientists were focusing on the possibility of life in Europa's ocean, he and Bada had been talking about what biochemistry might happen in the 10 - mile - thick layer of ice atop the ocean.

The Antarctic ice sheet, the thick layer of ice covering much of the continent, is anchored in place by its floating fringe, shelves of ice that jut out into the surrounding ocean.

The deposits are exposed in cross section as relatively pure water ice, capped by a layer one to two yards (or meters) thick of ice - cemented rock and dust.

The dust grains there have thicker layers of ice than those found in other parts of the galaxy.

During winter, each pump would be capable of building an additional layer of sea ice up to 1 meter thick over an area of about 100,000 square meters, or about the size of 15 soccer fields, the researchers estimate in the January issue of Earth's Future.

The areas that appeared bright in the radio images but dark in the laser observations correspond to warmer patches on Mercury, where ice would be stable only if buried under a 10 - centimetre - thick layer of other material.

As wind and rain erode the mountain range, massive rivers carry more than a billion tons of sediment into the Bay of Bengal each year; in some places, the layer deposited since the most recent ice age is more than one kilometer thick.

How We Did It: Close collaboration between theoreticians and experimentalists along with well - equipped laboratories and a supercomputer allowed the team to build a layer of ice two molecules thick and then to determine how the atoms and electrons in that ice arranged themselves.

And a «lot of water» here means hundreds or thousands of Earth oceans's worth of water, completely covering the silicate mantle of the planets, most likely in hundreds of km - thick high - pressure water ice layers, below thick liquid oceans or high - pressure steam atmospheres.

MacFerrin first discovered the ice layers — some of them up to 15 feet thick — in 2012 in west Greenland.

However, layers of water ice, up to a few hundred meters thick, are permanently shielded from sunlight in craters (shown above in black) near Mercury's poles.10 How strange.

Assuming an iron - rich planet with an internal structure like Earth, modelling results for the first discovered super-Earth (GJ 876 d) indicate the existence of a threshold in planetary diameter above which a super-Earth «most certainly» has a high water content (an «ocean planet» or «water world,» where thick layers of water and pressurized ice surround a rocky mantle and core); this threshold was found to be around 24,000 kilometers (or nearly 15,000 miles) in the particular case of GJ 876 d (Valencia et al, 2007).

I'm really hoping it builds up as the hours go by for a thick and stormy layer of snow but going by what my weather app says it's supposed to rain in the evening so not the best for driving in with black ice beginning to form...

That it works both as a comedy and a good - natured meditation on religion, tradition and their persistence in the modern world is a very thick layer of icing on the top.

However, this strategy is a compliment to Li's style of painting in icing - thick layers.

Also mentioned in the NASA release is the work of Kaitlin Keegan, a doctoral student at Dartmouth College whose focus is «firn,» the newly deposited layers of snow cloaking the two - mile - thick ice sheet that will, over time, become the next dense layers in the great frozen mass.

Keep in mind it's two miles below the sea ice, with thick intervening layers of water that don't exchange much heat.]

«The Greenland ice sheet, which is up to 3000 + metres thick, is not «melting away», did not «melt in four days», it is not «melting fast», and Greenland did not «lose 97 per cent of its surface ice layer».»

The analogy to the Number 12 is incomplete because oceanographers imagine a third mode of global climate, seen only in the aftermath of Heinrich events, where the Hudson's Bay ice mountain collapses and iceberg armadas sail from Canada across to France, dropping rocks off their bottoms all the way (which is how they were detected, as layers in ocean - floor cores that get thicker and thicker as you get nearer Hudson Strait).

At one weather station, a layer of ice as much as a meter thick melted in 4 days.

A layer of ice a meter thick at one of the weather stations melting in «Four Days»!

This is old snow in the process of being compacted into glacier ice, and covers the island in a layer up to 80 metres thick.

In addition, there is a 45 - metre -(147.6 - foot --RRB- thick layer of manganese ore in the Kalahari Desert with an age corresponding to the end of the 2.4 billion - year «Snowball Earth» period; its deposition is thought to have been caused by rapid and massive changes in global climate as the worldwide covering of ice melteIn addition, there is a 45 - metre -(147.6 - foot --RRB- thick layer of manganese ore in the Kalahari Desert with an age corresponding to the end of the 2.4 billion - year «Snowball Earth» period; its deposition is thought to have been caused by rapid and massive changes in global climate as the worldwide covering of ice meltein the Kalahari Desert with an age corresponding to the end of the 2.4 billion - year «Snowball Earth» period; its deposition is thought to have been caused by rapid and massive changes in global climate as the worldwide covering of ice meltein global climate as the worldwide covering of ice melted.