Sentences with phrase «large cracks in the ice»

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Holding a large (preferably 1») cube of ice in the palm of your hand, use the back of a stirring spoon to crack it into large pieces; place in a mixing glass.

BREAK UP Last year a crack stretching tens of kilometers rapidly spread across Larsen C, shown here in 2009, one of the largest ice shelves in Antarctica.

In November 2014, Jansen assembled images of Larsen C taken by NASA's Landsat satellites and noticed something unusual: One of the cracks had spread past the suture zone and was more than halfway toward breaking off a large section of the ice shelf.

Large pools of melt water splotching the ice shelf probably forced open cracks in the ice.

The Arctic: Giant cracks larger in total area than the British Isles appeared in August in the Arctic sea ice.

Scientists have long suspected that the network of cracks in Europa's ice sheet could indicate a large volume of water underneath, and recent analysis of magnetic field data from the Galileo probe seems to confirm there is a salty ocean down there.

The reddish lines in the moon's icy crust are cracks and ridges, some of them thousands of kilometres long, while the reddish mottling indicates areas of disrupted ice, where large ice blocks have shifted.

Surface meltwater can penetrate through cracks in the surface, and force them open, allowing large amounts of water to drain to the bed and spread out across the base of the ice sheet, lubricating it (Zwally et al. 2002).

The water flows down into cracks in the ice, its weight forcing the cracks wider until large sections of the shelf shatter with surprising quickness.