Sentences with phrase «rocky waters of»

With over 35 years experience, Drs. John and Julie Gottman have studied thousands of couples and developed specific interventions to help them navigate through the rocky waters of marital strife to solid land.

California About Blog Budget And The Beach blog features the story of an independent girl's search for the good life at the beach while pursuing financial freedom in the sometimes rocky waters of the freelance world.

tackled the rocky waters of the Common Core State Standards.

Last week, I began to dip my toe into the depths of the emotionally rocky waters of the Criterion Collection's release of John Cassavetes: Five Films with a short analysis of Shadows (1959).

He was already running out of ideas and had sailed The HMS Arsenal through the rocky waters of the early new stadium financial constraints years.

Not exact matches

I mourn for the ones that will never know the magic of playing mermaids by an old lake shore, drawing out elaborate sagas of the life aquatic on the rocky beach, slipping in and out of water, convinced of a glittery tail.

My workshop is squeezed in between a river and a canal, and the sense of being surrounded by water, rocky steep - sided valleys and open moorland is impossible to ignore — it's these natural textures, subtle hues and rugged lines that emerge in my jewellery.

The sense of being surrounded by water, rocky steep - sided valleys and open moorland is impossible to ignore — it's these natural textures, subtle hues and rugged lines that emerge in my jewellery.

Mr Adda briefed Parliament on the UN target goal of «Water for All», claiming that Ghana's targets still remain «rocky and arduous».

So a less dense planet might have a higher proportion of water or gases compared with a denser, rockier world.

Dubbed Kepler 438 b and Kepler 442 b, both planets appear to be rocky and orbit in the not - too - hot, not - too - cold habitable zones of their stars where liquid water can exist in abundance.

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

«Earth is warm and rocky, with rivers of water, while Titan is cold and icy, with rivers of methane.

Still, Chapman says, he would not be surprised to see water ice on asteroids, adding that the distinction between comets, traditionally considered to be icy, and asteroids, which have been largely thought of as rocky, is becoming increasingly blurred.

The chemicals would have originated in the rocky core of Enceladus, so to reach a plume they must have leached from the core via liquid water.

They're like small Neptunes but with huge amounts of liquid water around a rocky core.»

HD 85512b In September European astronomers announced the discovery of 50 new planets, including one of the most Earthlike ones yet: HD 85512b, a rocky world just 3.6 times as massive as our own and mild enough to have liquid water.

Although the methane could have come from the activity of microbes living below the permafrost, an equally plausible explanation is that it came from reactions between minerals and water trapped in rocky layers underneath.

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.

The debris probably was dredged up from the bottom of the moon's ocean by water percolating through the rocky core, and then...

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.

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.

As each carbonate species reacts differently when diffusing or flowing through water, the researchers characterized each reaction, then worked each reaction into a reactive diffusion model — a simulation of chemical reactions as carbon dioxide flows through a briny, rocky environment.

Since most property was far from streams and there was little rain, officials then gave settlers formal rights to take water out of rivers and move it across dry land where it could be used to mine minerals or turn rocky fields into farms.

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.

Researchers report that decreasing water pH — one consequence of rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — dissolves the stony coral's hard skeleton but does not dislodge the soft - bodied polyps from their rocky substrate.

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.

Artist's impression of a rocky and water - rich asteroid being torn apart by the strong gravity of the white dwarf star.

Whether the uranium is stripped out of an open pit like the Ranger mine in Australia, removed from deep underground like McArthur River or chemically leached from its rocky home as at the Smith Ranch - Highland mine in Wyoming (the largest mine in the U.S.), yellowcake is the end product, along with a heap of radioactive tailings and, often, contaminated water.

The dim star TRAPPIST - 1 hosts seven rocky worlds, at least three of which may have liquid water and atmospheres.

The small, cool star TRAPPIST - 1 is one of the best places to look for life in the Milky Way: its seven rocky planets might all have water and atmospheres

«It's essentially a rocky world like our moon but then it has this shell of water around it that's some 100 miles [160 kilometers] thick.

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.

Nestled in a rocky pocket under 4 kilometers of glacial ice, Lake Vostok's waters have never been sampled.

It will soon be moving again, towards rocky areas whose compositions show clear signs of having been affected by water.

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.

Combined with its mass of 8.57 Earths, that size suggests the planet has a dense rocky core, surrounded by a 3000 - kilometre - thick envelope of nearly pure water.

Indeed, the species which evolved exhibit innumerable combinations of colours and are adapted to different habitats, such as sandy bottoms, rocky shores or open waters — ranging from the clear shallows to the permanent darkness of the turbid depths.

Although we are some time off from probing a distant potentially habitable world's atmosphere for the presence of liquid water or chemical traces of life, Kepler - along with supporting observations by other space - and ground - based instrumentation - is giving us a tantalizing hint of the preponderance of small rocky worlds in the Milky Way.

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.

Astronomers at the Universities of Cambridge and Warwick say this is the first «reliable evidence» for water - rich, rocky planetary material in any extrasolar planetary system.

Eventually, a stable rocky crust may have developed between Years 0.2 and 0.4 billion (see J. Bret Bennington's discussion of recycled zircons (crystals of zirconium silicate) from the rocks of western Australia in the Hadean Eon and the January 11, 2001 announcement of zircons found north of Perth that appear to be 4.4 billion years old), covered and surrounded by soupy water that was already rich with organic compounds from interstellar space.

NASA just announced 7 rocky planets around the cool red star Trappist - 1 — and 3 of those orbit within the Habitable Zone (where surface liquid water would be possible).

«This also rules out comets, which are rich in both water and carbon compounds, so we knew we were looking at a rocky asteroid with substantial water content — perhaps in the form of subsurface ice — like the asteroids we know in our solar system such as Ceres,» Gänsicke said.

They estimate that approximately 30 percent of the minor planet's mass was water and other ices, and approximately 70 percent was rocky material.

Artist impression of a rocky and water - rich asteroid being torn apart by the strong gravity of the white dwarf star GD 61.

Analysis of data also shows that Ceres has a water - ice mantle surrounding a rocky core, and that there may still be at least pockets of liquid water beneath the surface, raising the prospect of potential habitability for microorganisms, as seemingly unlikely as that may sound for a world so far from the Sun.

The discovery of a solar system with seven rocky worlds, all with the potential for water, gives researchers a great, specific target to direct further study.

According to models, the TRAPPIST - 1 system contains three planets in the habitable zone, making it the record holder for stars we know of with rocky planets that could potentially support liquid water, Kaltenegger explained.

This is the first time a white dwarf with nitrogen has been discovered, and one of only a few known examples of white dwarfs that have been impacted by a rocky body that was rich in water ice.