Sentences with phrase «rubble piles»

Traditional skylights have large rubble piles directly below them (as seen in the first figure) which would be an obstacle for the rover.

The dogs start voicing their excitement the moment they arrive at the jumbled landscape of their training field - designed to resemble a disaster site with rubble piles that simulate collapsed structures.

In four years of theoretical work, we built a robot that could go over the rubble piles, at which point it would let out lots of little robots, which would be able to wend their way deeper into the rubble.

Such a mission also might reveal whether gravity tugged fragments back together into loosely bound rubble piles.

Koseki says it could take years to remove the remaining rubble piles — and some are especially risky.

Some clear steps include monitoring the internal temperature of rubble piles and scattering them before heat from fermentation builds up to dangerous levels.

Within a certain range of temperature and moisture conditions — even after months of inactivity — a rubble pile rich in tatami debris can smolder back to life, they concluded.

The existence of the craters, as well as the discovery of steep cliffs and pinnacles on the comet's landscape, imply that Wild 2 is a cohesive structure as opposed to a loosely connected rubble pile.

«It's apparently a loosely packed rubble pile,» Anderson says.

This could mean that it is similar to water - rich objects in the outer edge of the asteroid belt, or it could mean that Phobos is a rubble pile, with many empty cavities between rock fragments.

What's more, it is twirling at a rate that could tear a loosely - bound rubble pile apart.

Philae and Rosetta will work together to scan the comet's interior using radio waves, to reveal whether it is solid or more of a rubble pile inside — a technique that could prove useful for future asteroid miners (see «Asteroid education «-RRB-.

Most small asteroids are thought to have been severely damaged in this way, giving them a «rubble pile» internal structure.

Torrence Johnson, Galileo project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, says the 170 - mile - wide body is probably «a very porous rubble pile, made of light rock mixed with ice and a fair amount of empty space.»

«So if just gravity were holding this rubble pile together, as is generally assumed, it would fly apart.

Possibilities include a remnant nucleus, too small for SDO to detect, or a «rubble pile» of furiously vaporizing fragments.

Mathilde is like a loose rubble pile with the density of water.

«Every week when we're training on the rubble pile, and each time we deploy, it means so much to us knowing that you are behind us, making our work possible.»

This facility, where rescued dogs will learn to be rescuers, will be the first - of - its - kind in America and will provide a training ground for search and rescue teams throughout the nation to work with their canines in an environment that simulates real disaster conditions such as a train wreck, an earthquake zone and a rubble pile.

The canines spend, on average, nine months in training at SDF's facility in Santa Paula, California, where a 10,000 - square - foot rubble pile and a replica train wreck are among the props used to get the dogs ready to work.

I can't wait to let Pippin run around the rubble pile.

Yet, most of this love was through either single player or split screen and it took me until 2010 to get online... at which point I played Call of Duty Black Ops multi-player until the building around had degraded to a post-apocalyptic rubble pile, complete with roaming mutated wild gerbils searching for scraps of pizza in the folds of my chair - sore ridden skin.

The walls of the aforesaid windmill might now produce a rubble pile at the bottom of the building, offering a different kind of cover for all those on the ground.

«Without education, we have nothing,» said Michel Renau, director of national exams at the Ministry of National Education, Youth and Sports, which itself is a rubble pile in the city center.

In his ruling for the plaintiffs, Judge Charles H. Haden stated that «If there is any life form that can not acclimate to life deep in a rubble pile, it is eliminated.

Area - of - Effect Soft - bots are meant to operate on «rubble pile» asteroids, which are pretty much what they sound like.

Not exact matches

In this scene, there is no chest beating, no sense of valor, just a kid stuck in a pile of rubble calling for help.

Without them, you've just got a pile of rubble.

It reduced Palm, a previous leader in mobile gadgets, to a pile of rubble.

Both spent much of their time working with «muck and gut» crews, doing everything from tearing out wet drywall to digging through piles of muddy clothing and other household rubble left in the wake of the hurricanes.

And the facade of the main chapel was reduced to a pile of rubble spread across the front sidewalk like a bag of building blocks.

I like it... although I'm a wee bit concerned about the weight of my post-book body crushing that sweet little house and reducing it to a pile of rubble.

Left all alone on this mysterious day, the «ghost train rumbled by» and the leaning chimney collapsed, burying Becky under a pile of rubble.

It's hardly surprising really after all the great expectations carefully built up over the last eight months were left in a pile of rubble on the Emirates pitch on Sunday.

With a push of a button the grandstand was reduced to a pile of rubble.

Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson also suggested there was nothing stable about the Tories any more - and that May's social care policy now resembled a pile of rubble.

In less than 30 seconds, the 38 - year - old grandstand concert venue at the New York State Fairgrounds imploded this weekend into a massive pile of rubble and dust.

GEDDES, N.Y. — In less than 30 seconds, the 38 - year - old grandstand concert venue at the New York State Fairgrounds imploded into a massive pile of rubble and dust.

The news photos from San Giuliano di Puglia were heart - wrenching: a rainbow of backpacks brightening the cold ground; piles of concrete rubble strewn amid unscathed apartment buildings.

Alternatively, they posit that small, rubble - pile moonlets could be transporting the dense, icy particles as they migrate within the ring.

For an outstanding view of the skyline, you can climb the switchbacks of the Great Mound, a pile of rubble from the old plant now covered in dirt and grass.

Global warming has replaced the China Syndrome as the number one energy worry in the United States, and Cassini is delivering a whole world of new data on Saturn: rubble - pile moons, record - groove gaps in the planet's famous rings, complex weather systems churning through the pastel cloud cover, and possible explanations for the unrelenting 900 - mile - an - hour winds.

Intense thermal stresses open up fractures in rocks; over the eons, the mechanical breakdown from daily heating and cooling can reduce boulders to piles of rubble.

Should ocean acidification proceed unfettered, we will be left with winners, losers, and a pile of rubble and slime.

New images from the Cassini space probe show what astronomers are calling «a rubble - pile moon.»

How could this pile of rubble not tear itself apart?

The rocky body — the largest yet to get a close flyby — seems to have been just large enough to avoid being reduced to a flying pile of rubble by eons of collisions with other asteroids.

About 50,000 years ago, a pile of volcanic rubble buried a conifer forest in the southern Lake District of Chile.

Parallel ridges toward the bottom of the mountain appear to be drop moraines — piles of rubble deposited at the edges of a receding glacier.

In North America, a towering tsunami buried plants and animals alike under thick piles of rubble.