Sentences with phrase «surface for eons»

The rock sat on the surface for eons until an asteroid struck Mars and flung bits of its crust into space.

Isolated from the surface for eons, these organisms have beenliving in environments presumed impossible — oil wells, aquifers, anddeep rock.

Not exact matches

With a negligible heat source below it, Callisto's surface would be geologically dead for eons, the team reports online this week in Nature Geoscience.

As it has been careening through space for eons, its surface is reddish, an indication that it has been exposed to high - energy cosmic rays for millions (or maybe even billions) of years.

However, despite all that, the weather systems combined with the hydrological cycle and the global air circulation guided by the sea surface temperatures do provide reasonable overall stability for eons at a time by neutralising many potentially disruptive natural and biologically induced variables affecting air temperature.