Sentences with phrase «surface ice moves»

The team's computer simulation of the glacierlike flow within each mass suggests that the surface ice moves horizontally at no more than a few centimeters each year, which nevertheless is quick enough to totally resurface each polygonal cell every 500,000 years or so.

Not exact matches

Sometimes a moving ice sheet gets blocked by a mountain where high velocity winds ablate the surface, eventually exposing the meteorites.

«More nitrogen has to come from somewhere to resupply both the nitrogen ice that is moving around Pluto's surface in seasonal cycles, and the nitrogen that is escaping off the top of the atmosphere as the result of heating by ultraviolet light from the Sun,» said Singer.

Researchers were surprised to find a 7,700 - square - mile piece (about the size of Wales) missing, but they theorized that it had moved over warmer ice layers until it collided with another plate and was forced beneath the surface, out of view.

Getting the robot's legs, each of which featured four joints, to move in a synchronized fashion — not to mention adjust dynamically to slippery surfaces such as ice — proved challenging.

The rubble along the shoreline indicates that the ice mountains have drifted, moving across the more malleable nitrogen surface.

By tracking changes in crevasses on the glaciers» surfaces, they calculated the speed at which the ice slabs were moving.

Multiple observations indicate that the flowing water responsible for shaping and moving the rounded pebbles encountered in the vicinity of the rover landing area has long since been lost to space, though some of it may still exist deep below the surface of the planet at equatorial locations (water ice is known to exist near the surface at the poles).

«Considering that the surface is moving much faster than we had previously thought, it could also affect things like the stability of the ice caps and help us to understand past climate change.»

As this water moves through rocks, it dissolves salt compounds and pushes through fractures in the overlying ice to form reservoirs closer the moon's surface, where it is expelled into space when the outermost layer of the crust cracks open and the resulting depressurization of these reservoirs causes water vapor and ice particles to shoot out in the observed plumes.

It's probably a good idea to build the house on whatever surface you'll be displaying it on, so you don't risk it falling apart when you move it, but if you do move it, just make sure all the icing has set and dried completely.

This time around, Link has an array of special moves that allow him to stop time for certain objects, make ice blocks emerge from surfaces, and use a strong magnet to move specific objects around.

Many of the comments we received arguing in favor of allowing ESC system disablement were, in fact, arguing for disablement of traction control to allow a vehicle to start moving on certain surfaces with low friction such as on snow, ice, or off - road conditions.

Richard B. Alley, an expert on Greenland's ice sheet at Penn State, told me it's still possible that flows of meltwater from surface lakes could start large areas of ice moving seaward, particularly if the melt zones continue to expand inland as they have been doing for years now.

I applied this software to satellite imagery of the NE Greenland coastal shelf to identify surface currents from moving ice.

Sea ice may be discontinuous pieces (ice floes) moved on the ocean surface by wind and currents (pack ice), or a motionless sheet attached to the coast (land - fast ice).

Losses from surface melting, water runoff, the breakup of glaciers into the ocean (calving), and the transformation of solid ice into water vapor (sublimation) exceed any gains through snowfall.2, 3,4,5 The Greenland ice sheet loses most of its mass on the perimeter, through a dozen fast - moving glaciers, including Helheim.5, 6

The actual surface that is sandwiched between the 334.5 and the 234 Wm - 2 has to move energy to the land and ice regions.

It, too has significant transverse structure and is a global transporter of heat as complex currents move water around based on its temperature, salinity / density, wind direction at the surface, heat sources at depth, evaporation, the coriolis force, the shape of the ocean bottom, and freshwater contributions from e.g. rivers and melting ice.

And the thinner the ice, the easier it is actually to move it by winds, and the easier it is to be melted by the underneath warmer ocean and above surface air temperature.

This would only compound warming in the region, which is already moving at a fast clip due to the thinning of ice sheets and record melting of sea - surface ice.