Sentences with phrase «on rocky surfaces»

It attaches itself by means of a holdfast consisting of filaments that anchor it in soft sediment or on rocky surfaces.

And on the Trailhawk ™ trim, a fifth setting — rock — lets you drive even on rocky surfaces.

Falling space debris should make craters on rocky surfaces.

Astronomers announced today the discovery of an extraordinary planetary system: seven Earth - sized planets that could all have liquid water on their rocky surfaces.

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.

In 2009, scientists discovered that the exoplanet Gliese 581d had the potential to support water on its rocky surface.

There was an open area on the rocky surface at the water level, which was completely packed with people, waiting in line to be able to jump into the cenote from a platform above the water and another line to climb down one of the four wooden ladders into the water.

Not exact matches

Zanzibar, 1897 In the Kew Bulletin (1892, p. 88) the following information respecting chillies was given in an article on the Agricultural Resources of Zanzibar, contributed by Sir John Kirk, G.C.M.G., K.C.B.: — «The small red peppers or chillies are largely grown in the more dry and rocky part of the island, where the upheaved coral presents a honeycombed surface...

New maps of the rocky planet's surface, based on images taken in the 1990s by NASA's Magellan spacecraft, show that Venus» low - lying plains are surrounded by a complex network of ridges...

The presence of sea salt on Europa's surface suggests the ocean is interacting with its rocky seafloor — an important consideration in determining whether the icy moon could support life.

So Proxima b's 11 - day year exposes it to two thirds as much starlight as Earth — enough to place the planet in the middle of its star's «habitable zone,» a temperate circumstellar region where liquid water and life could conceivably exist on a rocky world's surface.

San Francisco State University astronomer Stephen Kane and an international team of researchers have announced the discovery of a new rocky planet that could potentially have liquid water on its surface.

Unlike Saturn's bright rings, which are made almost entirely of ice particles, Mars's rocky ring will be dark and largely invisible from Earth, although the cloud of orbiting Phobos bits will at first be dense enough to cast a shadow on the Red Planet's surface during some parts of the planet's orbit around the sun, the researchers say.

Until recently, that rule led scientists to think only in terms of places just like home: temperate, rocky planets with bodies of liquid water on their surfaces.

It can not tell us if the planets are rocky, have oxygen in their atmosphere, or hold liquid water on their surface.

From those densities, they estimate that the fourth planet out from the star, known as TRAPPIST - 1e, is the rockiest of the seven and the most Earth - like, with the possibility of liquid water on its surface.

Among the new additions to the catalog are several small, probably rocky planets that reside in the habitable zone — at a distance from their star that allows liquid water to exist on their surface.

To qualify as potentially life - friendly, a planet must be relatively small (and therefore rocky) and orbit in the «habitable zone» of its star, which is loosely defined as a location where water can exist in liquid form on a world's surface.

On a rocky area of about one square metre, and in loose rocks nearby that were once part of that surface, Aaron Sappenfield at the University of California, Riverside, and his colleagues discovered the fossilised remains of 13 jellyfish (Geological Magazine, doi.org/b93h).

In a protoplanetary cloud around a young star there would be tiny grains of rocky material that would provide a surface on which chemicals could react.

But in many instances, the simulations show, even planets starting with rocky cores as little as 1.5 Earth's mass may trap and hold atmospheres containing between 100 and 1000 times the amount of hydrogen found in the water in Earth's oceans — thick, dense envelopes exerting pressures so hellish that life on the planets» surfaces might be almost impossible.

The authors focus on M - dwarf stars, whose surfaces are poorly understood and which commonly host rocky exoplanets.

In 2003, astronomers at the University of Texas at Arlington performed refined calculations to determine that the habitable zone around 47 Ursae Majoris, where an inner rocky planet (with suitable mass and atmospheric gas composition and density) can have liquid water on its surface, lies between 1.05 and 1.83 AUs of the star.

Then NASA's Kepler mission launched and discovered thousands of rocky planets orbiting stars, some of which are at a distance from their parent star where liquid water could exist on the surface.

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According to calculations performed for the NASA Star and Exoplanet Database, the distance from 41 Arae B where an Earth - type rocky planet may have liquid water on its surface has been estimated to be between 0.593 and 1.176 AU — between the orbital distances of Mercury and Earth in the Solar System.

A world with an iron core, rocky mantle and enough water on the surface to create liquid water oceans that could support life.

Since K2 - 18b is likely rocky, this means the planet could have liquid water on its surface, which is one of many conditions for supporting life.

According to calculations performed for the NASA Star and Exoplanet Database, the distance from Ross 128 where an Earth - type rocky planet may have liquid water on its surface has been estimated to be between 0.06 and 0.11 AU — well within the orbital distance of Mercury in the Solar System.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 17, 2014 — San Francisco State University astronomer Stephen Kane and an international team of researchers have announced the discovery of a new rocky planet that could potentially have liquid water on its surface.

And after a busy day of playing on a rough surface — like a rocky beach — a nice paw massage of coconut oil can help sooth the paws and heal tiny cuts.

What I would do is use my anaerobic allotment to train for course - specificity: If the course is particularly rocky, I'd go out for a run after doing lower - leg stability work to challenge those muscles further (you can swap this out for running on sand), or if the course is particularly hilly, I'd train hills comparable in surface, slope, and length to the kind of stuff I'll find of the course.

It's not just ships zapping each other with lasers in the dark void of space; there's a caterpillar surface transport crawling over the rocky volcanic moonscape, a shoot - out with a fleet of flying saucers, a mind - controlled assassin sabotaging a human rocketship and of course the alien assault on Earth landmarks in the final battle.

For the Santa Fe the problem seemed to be the 19 - inch Hankook tyres, which are quiet on bitumen and fairly grippy in bends, but left rubber behind on one rocky surface, even with the centre differential locked.

While the BTC works, it is not as immediate as we would like, and allows a certain amount of tire slip that hampers the Grand's climbing ability on loose, rocky surfaces.

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When they are declawed, they are forced to bear weight on the cartilage that was meant to shield joint space, and could be why cats would choose to urinate in a soft surface like a carpet instead of a rocky gravel like a litter box.

The best way to reach them is to swim out from the northern or southern shores, which are very rocky on the surface.

It is located on top of the highest mountain that dominates the colonial locality of Pisaq, on a dry and rocky surface.

The beach itself is great to walk on... a nice sandy strip for about a quarter mile, but difficult for swimming and paddle boarding given the rocky surface below the water line.

Non-seabirds also nest on rocky seashore surfaces.

So, it is an imposing, but also magical and mysterious place, located on the highest mountain that overlooks the colonial village of Pisaq, on a dry and rocky surface.

As this is mostly the beginning section of the game, tutorial messages appeared on the environment as Lara scaled across the rocky surface.

The rocky planets have definitely settled and their temperatures depend almost exclusively on the Sun and how their atmospheres manage to retain heat by «insulating» the surface.

Exposed bedrock is brown, while rocky debris on the glacier's surface is gray.

In a new study, researchers claimed that a group of methane - munching microbes that live in rocky dwellings on the seafloor could be preventing large amounts of greenhouse gas from reaching the surface of the ocean and the atmosphere, where it could contribute to rising global temperatures.

And in fact, research shows that the highest land - surface temperatures recorded on the planet are almost always in places that are dry, rocky, bare, and dark - colored.