Sentences with phrase «south polar»

Also striking is the huge difference in outgoing radiation between the north and south polar regions.

The shelf ice plays an important role in slowing the progress of south polar glaciers: remove the shelf ice and the glacier flow accelerates.

IMO, the only areas left that could really change this estimate would be the north and south polar regions.

The observed regional changes in south polar ice cover are almost certainly due to a regional climate transition, not a global phenomenon, and are demonstrably unrelated to external forcing.

Two scientists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they wanted to take a look at the long - term future of the mass of south polar ice that has been worrying researchers for decades.

The prospect of liquid water at Enceladus» south polar terrain makes it an attractive target for a lander, said Fabian Baader, a member of the Enceladus Explorer (EnEx) project team at the University of Applied Sciences in Aachen, Germany.

Titan shows us its active polar atmosphere with the north polar hood and south polar vortex both on display in this image captured by the Cassini spacecraft.

The first finding was that mercury levels in brown skuas were three times higher than in south polar skuas.

Venus» south polar area, seen in ultraviolet light.

Vesta's south polar basin was created by impacts roughly a billion years apart.

A team of researchers led by Cornell's Radwan Tajeddine examined Cassini data and found evidence that the active south polar region of Enceladus — the fractured terrain seen here at bottom — may have originally been closer to the icy moon's equator.

Clementine used radar to detect the signature of water in the permanently - shadowed South polar region, which scientists thought was the most likely place to look for water.

Tajeddine believes an asteroid may have struck the moon's current south polar region when it was closer to the equator in the past.

Seen from within, Dione is very similar to its smaller but more famous neighbor Enceladus, whose south polar region spurts huge jets of water vapor into space.

Enceladus is subject to forces that heat a global ocean of liquid water under its icy surface, resulting in its famous south polar water jets which are just visible below the moon's dark, southern limb.

This basically describes the Enceladus Life Finder (ELF) mission, which would involve no landing, drilling or melting — just ten or so deep dives into that tantalizing south polar plume.

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter sensor detects south polar temperature differences during the day (left) and at night where some areas were found to be nearly -400 F below zero — colder than measured so far on Pluto.

Aviators and sailors sometimes refer to this point as the «south polar pit» because there are no bright stars marking it.

The IPCC's climate science has long claimed that human CO2 emissions are producing an accelerated global warming, with a «runaway» warming trend, which is then being amplified in the north and south polar extremes.

The two US scientists are not the only ones to see heightened dangers of south polar melting or to suggest that warming is happening faster, or that Antarctica's glacial ice is running more swiftly into the sea than the consensus predicts.

Lunar Missions Ltd. recently conducted the launch of its own crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter with the hopes of raising funds to land a robotic probe that will bury a time capsule on the lunar south polar.

In 2005, NASA's Cassini probe spotted plumes erupting from the Enceladus» south polar terrain, sending water vapor and solid particles from that subterranean ocean off into space.

For the first time, the researchers have carried out a ten - year population study of two seabird species: brown skuas living in the Kerguelen Islands (Subantarctic) and south polar skuas living in Adélie Land (Antarctica).

Vesta's south polar basin is dominated by two overlapping craters, where the younger Rheasilvia impact obliterated most of the slightly smaller Veneneia crater about a billion years ago (more).

Image showing the thickness of Enceladus's ice shell, which reaches 35 kilometers in the cratered equatorial regions (shown in yellow) and less than 5 kilometers in the active south polar region (shown in blue).

This is a geological map of the south polar region of the moon.

More than 100 geysers spout from four prominent fractures in the south polar terrain, creating a plume of tiny ice particles and vapor that extends hundreds of kilometers above the surface.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has begun transmitting its latest images of Saturn's icy, geologically active moon Enceladus, acquired during the dramatic Oct. 28 flyby in which the probe passed about 30 miles (49 kilometers) above the moon's south polar region.

The north polar hood is visible as the dark cap on the moon's cloud layer at the top of Titan in this image and the south polar vortex is visible as the bright feature at the bottom.

It's a place technically known as the south polar terrain, and astronomers have nicknamed the long, geologically active fractures «Tiger Stripes» — each about 80 miles long and a little over a mile wide.

«If the new mechanism is a major contributor to the heat coming from the fractures, then the south polar ice in between the fractures may in fact be cold,» Porco said.

The Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM), supplied by the Italian Space Agency, acquired some remarkable images of Jupiter at its north and south polar regions in infrared wavelengths.

This enhanced color view of Enceladus shows much of the southern hemisphere and includes the south polar terrain at the bottom of the image.

«I was very happy to see this new work by Kite and Rubin that brings to the fore a process that had escaped notice: the pumping of water in and out of the deep fractures of the south polar ice shell by tidal action,» said Carolyn Porco, head of Cassini's imaging science team and a leading scientist in the study of Enceladus.

Kite and Rubin have proposed that new Cassini data can test this idea by revealing whether or not the ice shell in the south polar region is warm.

By coincidence, the south polar region of the moon - a 1,500 - mile - wide depression known as the Aitken Basin - is where the first permanent lunar base is most likely to be built.

How exactly did identical marine species come to inhabit both the north and south polar regions?

At the south polar region, where about 100 saltwater geysers erupt from the surface, the ocean is likely deeper and the crust thinner.

This new color - coded photo mosaic of Mercury's south polar region, presented here today at a joint meeting of the European Planetary Science Congress and the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, shows these «freezer» areas as dark blotches.

These effects may not only lead to stronger warming at the north of our planet, but also at the south polar region.

... The resemblance between Europa and the south polar terrain on Enceladus has always been striking to me, so perhaps it shouldn't be surprising if they share more in common than just looks.»