Sentences with phrase «ocean of water beneath»

But in September 2015, NASA released Cassini data showing evidence of a much larger, global ocean of water beneath the frozen crust of this moon.

Europa is thought to have an ocean of water beneath its icy shell.

Not exact matches

Groundwater that seeps into the coastal zone beneath the ocean's surface — termed submarine groundwater discharge (SGD)-- is an important source of fresh water and nutrients to nearshore coral reefs throughout the globe.

Signs of stagnant CO2 - rich water have now been discovered 3700 metres beneath the Southern Ocean's seabed, between Antarctica and South Africa.

«So if I have this depression at the south pole, and I have beneath the surface 50 kilometers down a layer of water or an ocean, that layer of water at depth is a positive mass anomaly.

If you decouple that ice from where it's grounded — something that currents of warming water, already circulating around the Antarctic coast, could do — then water could flow beneath the inland ice and lubricate its slide into the ocean.

In a recent paper published in Nature Geoscience, his team identified two deep underwater cavities beneath the glacier that they note could be pathways for relatively warm ocean water to reach the underside of the glacier, enhancing its melting.

In 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied jets of water ice and vapor erupting into space from fissures on Enceladus, evidence of a salty ocean beneath the saturnian moon's placid icy surface.

Although its surface is an airless landscape of cracked ice, all the evidence says that beneath that bleak shell is a liquid water ocean stretching hundreds of kilometres down to the rocky mantle below.

Certain tidally stressed moons in the outer solar system, such as Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus, harbor oceans of liquid water beneath their icy crusts.

In the 1990s the Galileo space probe collected convincing evidence that Jupiter's large moon Europa has a global ocean of liquid water beneath its frozen surface.

Meanwhile, ocean water seeps beneath the ice shelf and washes up against the base of the glacier.

Enceladus, Europa, Ganymede, Titan, Triton, Pluto, Eris... they may all have, or have had, large oceans of liquid water trapped beneath a frozen crust.

But scientists increasingly attribute much of the observed grounding line retreat — particularly in West Antarctica — to the influence of warmer ocean water seeping beneath the ice shelves and lapping against the bases of glaciers, melting the ice from the bottom up.

Schimdt has found evidence that warm ocean currents and convective forces beneath Europa's frozen shell can cause large blocks of ice to overturn and melt, bringing vast pockets of water, sometimes holding as much liquid as all of the Great Lakes combined, to within several kilometers of the moon's icy surface.

And so it was, when I reported on January 21 that fish were found living in an isolated corner of the ocean beneath 740 meters of ice in Antarctica: People asked what this might mean for finding life on distant worlds such as Europa, a moon of Jupiter that very likely harbors an ocean of liquid water beneath a crust of ice.

And best of all, beneath the ice shell resides an ocean of liquid water some 50 miles deep.

Martian colonies could pack up the spaceship and relocate to Jupiter's moon Europa, where scientists believe a large ocean of liquid water hides beneath an icy crust.

Beneath half a mile of frigid ocean water, at the bottom of a deep trough that never sees the light of day, lay a chiaroscuro world of grayish bacteria and giant brilliant white clams.

That same year a European probe that had traveled with Cassini plunged into the thick, foggy atmosphere of the moon Titan and — together with the mother ship's measurements from above — found evidence of an ocean of ammonia and water hidden beneath a stunning landscape of dunes, mountains, and rivers.

The prime target of NASA's orbiter is Jupiter's moon Europa, which is thought to have an ocean of liquid water beneath its icy shell.

Petrobras's new find lies more than three times farther from shore than BP's ruptured Macondo well, and beneath 7,200 feet of ocean compared with the 5,000 feet of water at the BP blowout site.

The scientists — whose names are secret — plan to map the ice pack and the ocean floor beneath it, monitor patterns of ocean circulation and analyse water samples for evidence of pollution.

Enceladus hosts an ocean of liquid water beneath its icy surface.

Researchers from Northwestern University and the University of New Mexico report evidence for potentially oceans worth of water deep beneath the United States.

This hotter mantle would have made the crust beneath the oceans hotter and thicker than it is today, buoying it up relative to the continents, and the associated shallower ocean basins would have held less water, leading to the flooding of much of what is now land.

Mission scientists have determined that this stuff is coming from a huge ocean of liquid water beneath the satellite's shell — and that this ocean may be capable of supporting life as we know it.

It also would be far easier to get a water sample from Enceladus, which has plumes of water vapor, ice and particles shooting more than 300 miles off its surface, than from other moons, such as Jupiter's Europa, where a massive ocean is believed to be buried beneath a thick icy crust.

For each measurement, they lowered a marine snow catcher beneath the upper layer of the ocean to capture a water sample.

Scientists announced Thursday that measurements from NASA's Cassini spacecraft detected hydrogen gas, a key energy source for microbial life, in a plume gushing from a vast liquid water ocean buried beneath the icy shell of Saturn's moon Enceladus.

The most plausible source of this hydrogen is hydrothermal reactions between hot rocks and water in the ocean beneath the moon's icy surface.

If the craft were to crash on the surface of a cold moon like Enceladus, the RTGs could easily thaw a path through tens of kilometers of ice, and plop down into the liquid water ocean beneath, though this might take a long time.

For example, Cassini discovered that the Saturn satellite Enceladus is a mini-world of active jets — geyser - like phenomena that blast out water vapor and ice particles from the huge, salty ocean that lies beneath the moon's icy crust.

KAMUELA, Hawaii — With data collected from the mighty W. M. Keck Observatory, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) astronomer Mike Brown — known as the Pluto killer for discovering a Kuiper - belt object that led to the demotion of Pluto from planetary status — and Kevin Hand from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have found the strongest evidence yet that salty water from the vast liquid ocean beneath Europa's frozen exterior actually makes its way to the surface.

Many scientists believe Europa could be a good place to look for extraterrestrial life because it has an ocean of liquid water beneath its icy surface.

Heat generated by the gravitational pull of moons formed from massive collisions could extend the lifetimes of liquid water oceans beneath the surface of large icy worlds in our outer solar system, according to new NASA research.

«We found that tidal heating can be a tipping point that may have preserved oceans of liquid water beneath the surface of large TNOs like Pluto and Eris to the present day,» said Wade Henning of NASA Goddard and the University of Maryland, College Park, a co-author of the study.

In view of the discovery of hydrothermal vents, it may be possible that life exists on Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter, which scientists believe has a water ocean beneath its icy crust.

Heat generated by the gravitational pull of moons formed from massive collisions could extend the lifetimes of liquid water oceans beneath the surface of large icy worlds in our outer solar system.

If you fancy delving beneath the water, however, embrace your adventurous side and embark on a diving trip — you'll uncover a menagerie of marine life beneath the ocean.

iding just out of sight beneath the blue surface of the Channel Islands National Park's ocean waters lies one of the most astonishing collections of marine life on the planet.

Hiding just out of sight beneath the blue surface of the Channel Islands National Park's ocean waters lies one of the most astonishing collections of marine life on the planet.

If you can afford it, the underwater party at Subsix, Per aquum, Niyama is an amazing bar that is actually submerged beneath the water, reachable by speedboat, the bar is part of a resort stretching out into the ocean.

Colorful coral heads are clearly visible beneath clear lagoon waters, and beyond it all, the sapphire blues of the Pacific Ocean stretch towards infinity.

No honeymoon in the Indian Ocean is complete without exploring the world beneath the crystal clear water under the guidance of our dive pros and excellent visibility of the water

«The blow - your - mind sea to mountainous desert views; the whopping array of wildlife; that oh - so - close to nature feel; the health benefits of propelling yourself across ocean waters beneath soaring sea cliffs; access to white - sand coves; the possibility of sighting blue whales.

This intrusion is suggestive of how water, which is free and boundless in the ocean, is tamed, controlled and directed by the manmade network of conduits running beneath the surface of the city.

Thus, if the absorption of the infrared emission from atmospheric greenhouse gases reduces the gradient through the skin layer, the flow of heat from the ocean beneath will be reduced, leaving more of the heat introduced into the bulk of the upper oceanic layer by the absorption of sunlight to remain there to increase water temperature.

And that's part of the reason oil companies are drilling a mile beneath the surface of the ocean — because we're running out of places to drill on land and in shallow water.

When cold, dense water of the polar regions sinks and flows beneath warmer ocean water.