Sentences with phrase «of tidal stress»

Passing within about 100,000 kilometers, or roughly a quarter of the Earth — moon distance, the researchers propose that asteroids feel a sufficient influence from Earth's gravity to induce what Binzel calls «a little bit of tidal stress, a little tug - of - war with the Earth.»

The different properties of the Medicean moons — from Io's volcanism and Europa's ocean to Ganymede's magnetism — can all be traced to their relative nearness to Jupiter and the strength of the tidal stresses they endure as they orbit the planet.

Not exact matches

«In that crack you have strong tidal flow, so it would be interesting to see what a real ice sheet does in an environment that's analogous in terms of the amplitude of the stresses and the temperatures of the ice,» Kite said.

Now, scientists at the University of Chicago and Princeton University have pinpointed a mechanism by which cyclical tidal stresses exerted by Saturn can drive Enceladus's long - lived eruptions.

«A red - dwarf planet faces an extreme space environment, in addition to other stresses like tidal locking,» says Ofer Cohen of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).

«The daily variations in the tidal stresses from Saturn due to that eccentricity distort Enceladus and dump gigawatts of frictional heat into its interior,» Spencer wrote.

In laying stress on tidal movement, Hepworth hinted at her wider view of sculpture expressing the experience of being within the landscape.

Also true is there exist heat - tolerant corals, corals that are regularly exposed to (and routinely survive) the extreme stress of finding themselves out in the tropical air at low tide, and many ocean organisms that live through large swings in pH through tidal cycles.

I think one of the significant recent findings in geophysics is the influence of lunisolar forcing or tidal stress on the triggering of earthquakes.