Sentences with phrase «southern polar region»

The above chart documents the measured southern polar region temperatures.

«In the next few years, all scheduled moon flights will focus on its southern polar region, where low - temperature reservoirs of rare earths, as well as unknown volatile substances, have been detected,» Industrial Minerals quoted Vladislav Shevchenko of Moscow State University.

Tim Binder, Shedd's vice president of animal care, led an intrepid band of Shedd Adventurers to Antarctica in mid-February, during the southern polar region's version of summer.

Meanwhile, in the southern polar regions, the ice caps began to evaporate.

«The southern polar region represents a unique platform for observation,» he says.

According to Binder, graphs of data ratios from the neutron spectrometer «reveal distinctive 3.4 percent and 2.2 percent dips in the relevant curves over the northern and southern polar regions, respectively — this is the kind of data «signature» one would expect to find if water ice is present.

The water appears to be distributed over 3,600 to 18,000 square miles across the northern pole, and an additional 1,800 to 7,200 square miles in the southern polar region.

Using the MIRO instrument aboard Rosetta, scientists have studied the southern polar regions of its target comet at the end of their long winter season.

Enceladus» southern polar region is also home to occasional jets of water vapor and icy particles (with traces of carbon dioxide and monoxide, volatile gases, and hydrocarbons) that spew from vents within the moon's so - called «tiger stripe fractures,» which create a huge plume of vapor and icy particles that extends into space and affects Saturn's magnetosphere.

A new study has found that the southern polar region of Saturn's ice - covered moon Enceladus is much warmer than expected.

The clues found in sediments deposited during the late Holocene suggest that an ocean current that circles the southern polar region, known as Circumpolar Deep Water, flowed underneath the Cosgrove Ice Shelf and melted it.

It is true that this is consistent with the idea that there has been continuous global warming, although it is complicated by the fact that the Antarctic sea ice extent still seems to be about the same, i.e., the «global» warming only seems to have affected the northern polar region, not the southern polar region.

Specific locations can cool or warm, but overall the trend is down for the southern polar region.

From ice core data we can see that on approximately 1,500 - year cycles, the northern polar region has warmed while the southern polar region has cooled.

Given that the northern polar region is dominated by water, whereas the southern polar region is dominated by land, one would expect a greater temperature response to changes in ice extent in the Arctic than Antarctica.

The collected data contradict the predictions of climate models, which indicate that as a result of greenhouse gas buildup, there should be a warming trend in the southern polar region.

During most of the Silurian Period, the vast Panthalassic Ocean covered the northern polar regions, the supercontinent of Gondwana stretched over the southern polar region, and a ring of at least six continents spanned the Equator and middle latitudes.