Sentences with phrase «studied ancient water»
Researchers from the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Xi'an studied ancient water levels for Lake Dali, a closed - basin lake in Inner Mongolia in the northeast of China.
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«Study shows how water could have flowed on «cold and icy» ancient Mars.»
Within this crater the Opportunity rover — just slightly too small to see here — is studying the landscape up close, finding evidence of ancient, salty waters on Mars.
Another 2016 study found that minerals called carbonates — which need water to form — are spread across the dwarf planet, suggesting that Ceres once hosted an ancient ocean.
The most detailed evidence of ancient acoustical design comes from the Stanford team studying Chavín de Huántar, which was constructed between 1300 and 500 b.c. Peruvian archaeologists first suspected the complex had an auditory function in the 1970s, when they found that water rushing through one of its canals mimicked the sound of roaring applause.
Once in the Americas, the bug would have leached into local food and water sources from feces or vomit from sick individuals, says Hendrik Poinar, an ancient DNA researcher at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, who was not involved with the study.
An ancient flying reptile may have had a feeding style akin to that of modern birds known as skimmers, which occasionally swoop along the water's surface to snatch fish swimming there, a new study suggests.
A new study shows that as a glacier's ice melts, bubbles of pressurized ancient air escape into the water, leading to noise levels even louder than those beneath rain - pounded seas heaving with 6 - meter waves.
Venus may have had a shallow liquid - water ocean and habitable surface temperatures for up to 2 billion years of its early history, according to computer modeling of the planet's ancient climate by scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York.
A new study led by Northern Illinois University geography professor Wei Luo calculates the amount of water needed to carve the ancient network of valleys on Mars and concludes the Red Planet's surface was once much more watery than previously thought.
The study bolsters the idea that Mars once had a warmer climate and active hydrologic cycle, with water evaporating from an ancient ocean, returning to the surface as rainfall and eroding the planet's extensive network of valleys.
The research from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), published this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, used topographical and atmospheric data collected by the Pioneer and Magellan space probes to create 3 - D climate simulations, filling in lowlands with water and accounting for an ancient sun 30 percent dimmer than it is today.
In Mongolia, U.S. scientists are studying climate clues in ancient tree rings to help answer a crucial question: How will global warming affect Asia's monsoon rains, which supply water for agriculture and drinking to half the world's population?