Sentences with phrase «salty water beneath»

The leading explanation for what happened at Occator is that it could have had, at least in the recent past, a reservoir of salty water beneath it.

«Scientists discover first super salty subglacial lakes in Canadian Arctic: Super salty water beneath ice could serve as a terrestrial analogue for a habitat for life on other planets.»

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Beneath it lies another layer of rock full of ancient, salty water, and the change in water flow is allowing that to seep into the fresh water above.

In 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied jets of water ice and vapor erupting into space from fissures on Enceladus, evidence of a salty ocean beneath the saturnian moon's placid icy surface.

Volatile - rich salty water could have been brought close to Ceres» surface through fractures that connected to the briny reservoir beneath Occator.

In a bid to resolve this problem, Libya is spending billions of dollars of its oil revenues on the Great Manmade River project, which is pumping ancient «fossil» waters from beneath the Sahara and piping it hundreds of kilometres north to farms on the coast, where aquifers have become exhausted and salty.

The warm Atlantic water was saltier, and therefore heavier and subducted at depth and reached to the bottom, actually heating up beneath a lid of ice and melt water, that prevented the release of heat to the atmosphere.

One intriguing possibility: If fluid water does persist on Mars, life that might have thrived there millions of years ago, when the climate was warmer and wetter, could be hanging on in thin layers of salty water just beneath the surface.

Beneath the hydrocarbon seas on the surface, under a shell of water ice, lies salty liquid water.

Possessing more water than the total amount found on earth, Europa appears to have had a salty ocean beneath its icy cracked and frozen surface.

Europa has long been a high priority for exploration because it holds a salty liquid water ocean beneath its icy crust.

For example, Cassini discovered that the Saturn satellite Enceladus is a mini-world of active jets — geyser - like phenomena that blast out water vapor and ice particles from the huge, salty ocean that lies beneath the moon's icy crust.

That creates a return flow of warmer, saltier water toward Antarctica, where it's eroding ice shelves from beneath.»

KAMUELA, Hawaii — With data collected from the mighty W. M. Keck Observatory, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) astronomer Mike Brown — known as the Pluto killer for discovering a Kuiper - belt object that led to the demotion of Pluto from planetary status — and Kevin Hand from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have found the strongest evidence yet that salty water from the vast liquid ocean beneath Europa's frozen exterior actually makes its way to the surface.

As a result, while a layer of ice - cold fresh water sits just beneath the sea ice, about 20 meters (65 feet) down there is a layer of denser, saltier water that has been gradually warmed by the sun's rays.

The authors postulated that this warm salty water (WSW) layer, situated beneath the colder surface freshwater in the North Atlantic, generated ocean convective available potential energy (OCAPE) over decades at the end of HS1.

That creates a return flow of warmer, saltier water toward Antarctica, where it's eroding ice shelves from beneath.»