Sentences with phrase «miles of that salty water»
Many physicists predicted that the gravitational bear hug Jupiter exerted on Europa as the moon drifted closer to the planet in its elliptical orbit, and the subsequent release as it drifted away, would generate friction and heat — enough heat, scientists guessed, to keep the bottom 50 or so miles of that salty water completely melted.
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Velicogna and her colleagues also measured a dramatic loss of Greenland ice, as much as 38 cubic miles per year between 2002 and 2005 — even more troubling, given that an influx of fresh melt water into the salty North Atlantic could in theory shut off the system of ocean currents that keep Europe relatively warm.
«Curry found that between 1965 and 1995, about 4,800 cubic miles of fresh water — more water than is in Lake Superior, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and Lake Huron combined — melted from the Arctic region and poured into the normally salty northern Atlantic.»
«Curry found that between 1965 and 1995, about 4,800 cubic miles of fresh water — more water than is in Lake Superior, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and Lake Huron combined — melted from the Arctic region and poured into the normally salty northern Atlantic.»