Sentences with phrase «new ice deposits»

Dundas's team first spotted some of the new ice deposits a few years ago in images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

While Dundas said the scientists can't pin down an exact age of the new ice deposits, in geological terms they appear young.

Not exact matches

There could be eons - old ice deposits buried below ground and newer water at the surface.

Data reported by NASA's New Horizons New Horizons mission to the Pluto system shows unusual terrain in this region, which features a large deposit of nitrogen ice with a pattern of polygons that are thickest at their centers and dip at their edges.

The study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, adds three new members to the list of craters near Mercury's north pole that appear to harbor large surface ice deposits.

In the first episode of a new JPL video series, we celebrate the 14th anniversary of the Opportunity rover, show you a recent panoramic view from the Curiosity rover, look at ice deposits spotted by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and check out the latest test on the InSight lander, heading to the Red Planet in May 2018.

It was formed during the ice age when the prevailing winds transported the vast quantities of sand from New South Wales and deposited it along the coast of Queensland, forming the island as we know it today.

The Holocene / Crapocene ice has melted long, long time ago, new ice has deposited: Willis, that Greenland old ice supposed to be Skeptic; s crap; why are you getting stuck into it; did you run out of Warmist lies / misleadings?!? http://globalwarmingdenier.wordpress.com/2012/08/25/skeptics-stinky-skeletons-from-their-closet/

Drastic reductions in Arctic sea ice in the last decade may be intensifying the chemical release of bromine into the atmosphere, resulting in ground - level ozone depletion and the deposit of toxic mercury in the Arctic, according to a new NASA - led study.

But the center's pitch also includes access to deep - water environments such as beneath the ice caps where energy companies are seeking to explore new deposits of oil and natural gas, including in the Arctic, which is now more accessible because of the warming climate.

One author, speculating about the coming of a new ice age, pointed to «evidence of (at least) five rapid hemispheric coolings of about 5 °C... each event spread over not more than about a century,» Flohn (1974), quote p. 385; one line of evidence was carbon - 14 studies of tree stumps in glacial deposits: Denton and Karlén (1973).