Sentences with phrase «of kilometers of ice»

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.

This vast gorge might rival the Grand Canyon in splendor... if only it weren't smothered by a couple of kilometers of ice.

«Before, we only expected to find fluid under a hundred or hundreds of kilometers of ice,» Eicken says.

Not exact matches

Caves extend up to 70 feet deep, with some retaining ice and snow well into the middle of summer, while the edge of the limestone cliffs at the Scenic Caves has views of the Georgian Bay and countryside that span 10,000 kilometers.

This tidal energy produces more than enough internal heat to create a global water ocean, possibly as thick in places as 50 kilometers, buried under an outer layer of ice a few kilometers thick.

Almost exactly a year ago, a 251 - square - kilometer sheet of ice broke from the Petermann Glacier in Greenland and started slowly drifting into the open ocean.

Considering that the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets span more than 1.7 million and 14 million square kilometers, respectively, while containing 90 % of the world's freshwater ice supply, melting of ice shelves could be catastrophic for low - lying coastal areas.

Among them: a 380,000 - liter tank full of dry - cleaning fluid in a South Dakota gold mine and a cubic kilometer of ice packed with light - sensitive orbs at the South Pole.

«There's potentially hundreds of meters of ice, if not maybe a few kilometers, that may well be quite habitable,» Eicken says.

In 2004, they began monitoring Europe's largest ice field by area: Austfonna ice cap, a monster that is 560 meters thick in spots and straddles 8500 square kilometers, roughly the area of Puerto Rico.

«But now, potentially, it's under just a few kilometers of ice.»

In comparison, it took the Jakobshavn Isbræ ice stream — a southwest Greenland region with a fast - moving glacier that has been a focal point of scientific examination of ice sheet melt — 150 years to retreat 35 kilometers, said Khan.

Although a British team was unsuccessful in its quest to penetrate Lake Ellsworth, a group of Russian scientists successfully retrieved samples from Lake Vostok, thousands of kilometers away on the Eastern Antarctic Ice Sheet.

One popular choice is Lake Vostok in the heart of Antarctica, within which organisms may live beneath 4 kilometers of ice (ScienceNOW, 9 December 1999).

The island was surrounded by a plain of glacial ice covering 1,500 square kilometers — 25 times the area of Manhattan.

Its 500 - meter by 120 - meter array of 677 detectors in glass globes dangle like love beads from electrical cables 1.5 kilometers down into South Pole ice.

This iceberg, named UK211, had survived for three years since calving off the Larsen C ice shelf 385 kilometers south, but now it was drifting into warm climates north of the peninsula.

Scientists have drilled into one of the most isolated depths in all of the world's oceans: a hidden shore of Antarctica that sits under 740 meters of ice, hundreds of kilometers in from the sea edge of a major Antarctic ice shelf.

As a result of such breakups, more than 150 cubic kilometers of glacial ice has slid off land into the ocean.

Scientists find translucent fish in a wedge of water hidden under 740 meters of ice, 850 kilometers from sunlight

Now that the close to 2,240 square - mile (5,800 square kilometers) chunk of ice has broken away, the Larsen C shelf area has shrunk by approximately 10 percent.

Icebergs that have calved off the edge of the glacier are visible floating out to sea — but so are cracks hundreds of kilometers inland from Jakobshavn, on what would otherwise be a flat expanse of ice.

This isolated cavity of seawater, down at the grounding zone, sits deep beneath the back corner of the ice shelf — 850 kilometers back from where the edge of the ice meets the open sea.

Since 2003 the GRACE satellites had measured ice loss through variations in the earth's gravitation but only at the fuzzy resolution of hundreds of kilometers.

And down the coast from Goose Cove, a Port Hope Simpson crab fisherman captured some footage of a smaller, almost five - kilometer - long chunk of the ice island floating in open waters.

Next up, south of Larsen B and Scar Inlet, is the Larsen C ice shelf, which covers 49,000 square kilometers — twice as large as the state of Maryland, or about 820 Manhattans.

AMANDA receivers are sunk as deep as 1.5 kilometers into antarctic ice to filter out all sources of radiation but neutrinos.

The Larsen Inlet ice shelf, a 350 - square - kilometer slab north of Larsen A, was present in a satellite photograph taken in 1986, but by the time another image was made in 1988, most of it was missing.

The project, dubbed IceCube, will sink 4,800 photomultipliers — sensors that detect light — into a billion tons of ice, reaching one mile (2.4 kilometers) below the Antarctic surface.

From 1994 to 2003, the overall loss of ice shelf volume across the continent was negligible: about 25 cubic kilometers per year (plus or minus 64).

In 2012, the Russian Antarctic Expedition completed drilling through nearly 4 kilometers of ice to reach the surface of subglacial Lake Vostok.

Several Russian news outlets are reporting that Russian scientists have successfully drilled to Antarctica's Lake Vostok, a massive liquid lake cut off from daylight for 14 million years and buried beneath 2 miles (3.7 kilometers) of ice.

Whereas Pluto's putative ocean could in principle support life, it is probably locked beneath perhaps 200 kilometers of ice and very far from Earth, making it a much less appealing target for astrobiological studies than other, closer subsurface oceans known to exist in the solar system, such as those within the icy moons circling Jupiter and Saturn.

In a better world, it would be the big news of the year just to report that Arctic sea ice shrank to 4.14 million square kilometers this summer, well below the 1981 — 2010 average of 6.22 million square kilometers (SN Online: 9/19/16).

A hundred kilometers wide, this ice sheet, unlike most of its peers, is actually growing instead of melting, because it has slowed its flow toward the sea in recent decades.

It's not a new phenomenon; this «thumb» of Antarctica, which juts out into the stormy Southern Ocean, has lost more than 28,000 square kilometers of floating ice — almost as large as Massachusetts — over the past half - century.

Another major factor in this study was the scope of Operation IceBridge's measurements across Greenland, which included flights that covered distances of tens of thousands of kilometers across the ice sheet.

The Dark Zone of Greenland ice sheet is a large continuous region on the western flank of the ice sheet; it is some 400 kilometers wide stretching about 100 kilometres up from the margin of the ice.

The researchers found that three sites lack absolute age control: at Chobot, Alberta, the three Clovis points found lack stratigraphic context, and the majority of other diagnostic artifacts are younger than Clovis by thousands of years; at Morley, Alberta, ridges are assumed without evidence to be chronologically correlated with Ice Age hills 2,600 kilometers away; and at Paw Paw Cove, Maryland, horizontal integrity of the Clovis artifacts found is compromised, according to that site's principal archaeologist.

The process happened so fast, in fact, that Collins calculated waves were destroying the pack at a rate of over 16 kilometers of ice an hour.

Science Ticker Science News Staff Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf is within days of completely cracking The crack in Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf (our No. 3 story for 2017) grew 17 kilometers at the end of May (SN Online: 6/1/17).

The new images, at resolutions of about 80 meters per pixel, show a striking shoreline, where smooth plains of nitrogen ice from Pluto's «heart» rub up against water ice mountains several kilometers high.

With light sensors sunk kilometers deep into the ice sheet, IceCube's detector is so huge that it could pick up traces of a million neutrinos from a Milky Way supernova.

The Lance sailed east and around 80 kilometers from the small island of Hopen moored next to a large expanse of pack ice on May 2.

The minimum amount of ice cover each summer had fluctuated above and below six million square kilometers from 1979 through 2000.

BREAK UP Last year a crack stretching tens of kilometers rapidly spread across Larsen C, shown here in 2009, one of the largest ice shelves in Antarctica.

Since that year the minimum ice cover has declined rapidly, dwindling to an all - time record low of 3.4 million square kilometers on September 16, 2012.

Enkelmann appreciates the challenge of collecting samples here because this range has the highest peaks of any coastal mountain range and is only 20 kilometers from the Pacific Ocean, but she points out that it is a tough area to study because of the big ice sheets.

Scientists estimate the ocean is 60 miles (100 kilometers) thick — 10 times deeper than Earth's oceans — and is buried under a 95 - mile (150 - kilometer) crust of mostly ice.

An international team including researchers from the Laboratoire de Planétologie Géodynamique de Nantes (CNRS / Université de Nantes / Université d'Angers), Charles University in Prague, and the Royal Observatory of Belgium [1] recently proposed a new model that reconciles different data sets and shows that the ice shell at Enceladus's south pole may be only a few kilometers thick.