Sentences with phrase «large ice volcanoes»

The features would be the first large ice volcanoes in the solar system, says Jeff Moore, a New Horizons scientist at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, though the team is not yet willing to say the discovery is definite.

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Lurking between Mars and Jupiter is the largest asteroid in the solar system: a dwarf planet called Ceres, which has ice volcanoes, salt deposits, and other features that suggest it's hiding an ocean of salt water.

I iced the bottom of a large cake plate with green and brown frosting and stuck some of his toy dinosaurs around the volcano to make it look like a scene from prehistoric times for my dinosaur obsessed son.

Subsequent, unusually large and frequent eruptions of other volcanoes, as well as sea - ice / ocean feedbacks persisting long after the aerosols have been removed from the atmosphere, may have prolonged the cooling through the 1700s.

The flybys produced superb images of the surfaces of Jupiter's large Galilean satellites, revealing sulphurous volcanoes on Io, ice chasms on Europa, huge ringed impact craters on Callisto, and polygonal dark regions on Ganymede.

The Triton moon orbiting Neptune, for instance, is nearly as large as Earth's moon, though ice volcanoes dispersed throughout the celestial body give off nitrogen frost, giving the moon a smoky appearance.

«There are two main «ice» scenarios to consider; ice - capped stratovolcanoes such as those that dominate the South American and Western USA; volcanoes beneath large ice sheets, such as those in Iceland and Antarctica.

The large, glacier - clad volcanoes also have «ice - quakes», earthquakes that have similar seismograms to volcanic earthquakes but are due to the sudden slipping (of only a few inches) of a large glacier.

Note that other large eruptions occurred during the last 600 years, according to tree ring and ice core data, but are not indicated here because the source volcano is unknown (e.g. 1809).

Note that other large eruptions occurred during the last 600 years, according to tree ring and ice core data, but are not indicated here because the source volcano is unknown (e.g. 1809).

Some mechanisms for that are hypothesized, e.g. methane release from polar regions, increased melting of Greenland leading to stopping the Gulf Stream, rapid reduction of Arctic sea - ice and its positive feedback, collapse of Antarctic ice shelves, loss of the Amazon, large volcanoes, asteroid impacts, unexpected solar variation.

(A 2010 study found large spikes in volcanic activity at a number of Iceland volcanoes at the end of the last ice age.

Effects of large mega volcanoes stay with the climate system for a long time through sea ice feedbacks and ocean thermal inertia.

However, the cycle earlier than CET has an unusually large excursion; the tree rings may have been contaminated by the severe cooling during the Little Ice Age, caused likely by the very large volcano explosions.