Sentences with phrase «large amounts of water flowed»

But the two orbiters returned a wealth of scientific data in their own right, improving researchers» understanding of the Red Planet's topography and finding evidence that large amounts of water flowed across the Red Planet's surface long ago.

Not exact matches

This means that, in comparison to Planet Earth, relatively small amounts of liquid water moving across Mars» surface could form the large dune flows, gullies and other features, which characterise the Red Planet.

The scientists estimated that the amount of contaminated water flowing into the ocean from this brackish groundwater source below the sandy beaches is as large as the input from two other known sources: ongoing releases and runoff from the nuclear power plant site itself, and outflow from rivers that continue to carry cesium from the fallout on land in 2011 to the ocean on river - borne particles.

Both of the recorded winters were unusually cold and created similarly large amounts of deep water, but the strength of the AMOC whipsawed wildly between 8 and 25 sverdrups, a unit of flow roughly equivalent to the total flow of all the world's rivers.

One such valley, Margaritifer Sinus, would have received less rain than some other areas due to the Tharsis bulge causing drier air to flow over that region, yet shows evidence of large amounts of water having flowed there.

This causes a large amount of water to flow in your muscles and as a result they pump up.

«If found on land, scientists estimate it would be the world's sixth largest river in terms of the amount of water flowing through it,» the paper wrote.

Consequently, when the water flow is available to generate large amounts of hydro power, wholesale electricity prices drop.