Sentences with phrase «of ice patches»

The latest example of that is in Norway, where a group of researchers has reconstructed 6,000 years of history based on more than 2,000 artifacts that have melted out of ice patches.

A later impact would form a crater and heat up some of the ice patches, releasing water onto the walls of the crater.

Though there were no temperature sensors on the leg, he says the surface of the ice patch was warmed by direct sunlight, whereas the lander leg was in shadow.

Not exact matches

A minute earlier, when the plane had started to spin — it felt like a car hitting a patch of ice — his first thought had been that everything was going to be fine: My first mission, I had my first close call.

Stir the salt into the ice water until it is dissolved, then slowly add the saltwater to the flour mixture, mixing until the mixture is shaggy and there are no large patches of unblended flour, about 30 seconds.

The entry way is lined with patches of green chiles and there are neat little plastic containers sticking out of ice coolers with the roasted gems ready to go.

The puddle ducks are in the patches of open water near shore, the mergansers farther out, and the gulls stand in a great white crescent on the ice in the center of the reservoir, folding and unfolding their wings.

On the preceding snap Unitas had thrown six yards to Mutscheller, who lost his footing on a patch of ice and went out - of - bounds just inside the two - yard line.

There was the time David was driving south on 287 and came upon a jackknifed tractor - trailer sprawled across a patch of black ice.

The leak on West Fayette Street, near the intersection with West Genesee Street on the West Side, created a patch of ice that caused two accidents this morning involving a Centro bus and three vehicles.

The goal of the expedition I have come on is to find out whether the subterranean ice patch still exists.

Finally, narwhals scan vertically as they dive, which could help them find patches of open water where they can surface and breathe amid sea ice cover.

Combining high resolution images and infrared spectra collected during the probe's approach, a team of nearly two dozen scientists pinpointed three patches of water ice on the surface of the comet's «upper» half.

MESSENGER's maps of polar craters match up nicely with earlier imagery of the poles, taken by Earth - based radars, which showed anomalously bright features — patches that reflected radio waves much better than the surrounding terrain, just as ice does.

The car ahead of him hit a patch of ice and skidded into a ditch.

If Ceres is acting like a comet, it must have ice patches that can survive for a long time before being heated by the sun as it moves into a warmer part of its orbit.

«Very old ice probably exists in small isolated patches at the base of the ice sheet that have not yet been identified, but in many places it has probably melted and flowed out into the ocean.»

He says the clumps were probably patches of ice that formed and grew from water vapour freezing onto the leg.

Today we had to excavate an ice core from a patch of buried ice we uncovered yesterday.

Because Mercury's axis of rotation doesn't tilt at all (which means there's no summer or winter) some deep craters at the poles may be in perpetual shadow, and that could protect any ice patches from the heat of the sun.

«But we can't go to certain areas on Mars, like recurring slope lineae or... under patches of ice.

«These patches of water are however very small and the signals are highly distorted by the surrounding ice.

We adjust our gait to avoid a patch of ice; we exit to hit the rest stop; we switch to our backhand before thwacking a tennis ball.

You're walking on the sidewalk and before you know it you are slipping on a patch of ice hidden under a dusting of snow.

In June the probe's eight - foot - long robotic arm exposed white patches of ice in the rust - colored Martian dirt; in July it took bits of the icy soil and studied its composition.

The shrinking sea ice drives a classic positive feedback loop: as more ice melts, fewer patches of white snow reflect solar energy, and larger regions of dark, sunlight - absorbing seawater open up — both causing the ice to melt even faster.

On a clear day, anyone flying over Greenland on the route between North America and Europe can look down and see the bright blue patches of melted water atop the flat, blindingly white expanse of the ice sheet that covers the island, the second largest chunk of ice on Earth.

«Ice - free areas make for small patches of suitable habitat for plants and animals — like islands in a sea of ice,» she saIce - free areas make for small patches of suitable habitat for plants and animals — like islands in a sea of ice,» she saice,» she said.

The Arctic has transformed over the last five years into a region that's warmer and greener, with larger patches of open water as sea ice recedes.

The areas that appeared bright in the radio images but dark in the laser observations correspond to warmer patches on Mercury, where ice would be stable only if buried under a 10 - centimetre - thick layer of other material.

The spacecraft also took measurements of the planet's surface with a laser, which again suggested patches of ice — although some of the bright regions in the radar images showed up dark in the laser's readings.

The van shuddered and lurched, its tires crunching on patches of fresh snow and occasionally slithering on ice.

The latitudinal distribution of Charon's polar reddening suggests a thermally controlled production process, and the existence of highly localized patches rich in NH3 ice on its surface implies relatively recent emplacement.

Colin Dundas at the US Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona, and his colleagues examined pictures from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and found eight patches of ice, which had formed over millions of years.

Today, patches of bare ice blot its surface, revealing great twisting crevasses in its face.

The leading theory to explain the source of the curved gullies is that Vesta has small, localized patches of ice in its subsurface.

Most of the images from Rosetta have been in black & white, so these colour ones are a nice change and show incredible detail, including patches of water ice on the rocky surface.

Water ice strongly reflects radar, and observations reveal that there are patches of very high radar reflection near the poles.

Preservation of viral genomes in 700 - y - old caribou feces from a subarctic ice patch.

The comet appears to have undergone visible changes, including the changes in the size and number of surface features such as smooth patches, pits, and craters, and the loss of ice vaporized by the Sun or blasted off its surface by the Solar Wind into its tail as well as failing back on the object like snow, so that it appears to shrink, on average, by 25 to 50 centimeters (9.2 to 19.7 inches) with each orbit around the Sun.

Dr. Atkins died when he slipped on a patch of ice and hit the back of his head, he DID NOT die of a heart attack!

Born and bred in Belfast, David's website is full of delicious baked treats like pumpkin patch cake - complete with miniature icing pumpkins - and gingerbread cookies, as well as a glimpse into Belfast's foodie scene and reviews of sweet treats.

The slippery tub or shower floor, the unexpected ice patch or the quick actions of a young child will be less of a risk for you.

He had just seen a poor girl fall down hard when she stepped off the sidewalk in front of the store right onto a small patch of ice.

The ancient, patchwork - patterned church is right in front of you, but you almost miss it because you are walking with your head down, shielding your face from the wind and employing all efforts to avoid slipping on hidden patches of ice.

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The state of the previous facilities, which were over 15 years old, meant that the surface became extremely dangerous after sustained rainfall thanks to its poor drainage, and when temperatures dropped below freezing, ice patches appeared.

It's also the conceit of the Mazda Ice Academy, a daylong series of exercises designed to show how the brand's i - Activ all - wheel drive, which is engineered to anticipate tire slip on snow and ice rather than react to it, is the best possible system for removing an average driver's doubt he or she might not be able to handle patches of ice and banks of snIce Academy, a daylong series of exercises designed to show how the brand's i - Activ all - wheel drive, which is engineered to anticipate tire slip on snow and ice rather than react to it, is the best possible system for removing an average driver's doubt he or she might not be able to handle patches of ice and banks of snice rather than react to it, is the best possible system for removing an average driver's doubt he or she might not be able to handle patches of ice and banks of snice and banks of snow.

There were some patches of snow a few inches deep and some sections of pure ice.

I dive into a downhill right and hit a patch of black ice.