Sentences with phrase «thick layer of ice»

That it works both as a comedy and a good - natured meditation on religion, tradition and their persistence in the modern world is a very thick layer of icing on the top.

SAN FRANCISCO — Ganymede, the largest of Jupiter's moons, probably harbors a deep salty sea entombed in thick layers of ice.

While most scientists were focusing on the possibility of life in Europa's ocean, he and Bada had been talking about what biochemistry might happen in the 10 - mile - thick layer of ice atop the ocean.

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Ganymede, though, has a solid rock core surrounded by a thick layer of ice, while Callisto has a mixture.

Rona thinks the vents could be a model for life on other planets, or possibly even on moons in our own solar system like Jupiter's Europa, which hosts a large sea locked under a thick layer of ice.

Daniel Branton and his colleagues placed carbon nanotubes onto a silicon wafer, cooled it to about -163 °C and sprayed it with water, causing an 80 - nanometre - thick layer of ice to form.

The Antarctic ice sheet, the thick layer of ice covering much of the continent, is anchored in place by its floating fringe, shelves of ice that jut out into the surrounding ocean.

Many speculate these landforms are present throughout Antarctica, buried beneath the thick layer of ice that covers 98 percent of the continent.

Those closer in likely have dense, steamy atmospheres, whereas the outer ones may be encased in a thick layer of ice.

The dust grains there have thicker layers of ice than those found in other parts of the galaxy.

Hidden beneath the thick layers of ice that smother Greenland, there is a valley to rival the Grand Canyon.

On the outside they are covered by a thick layer of ice, and underneath this there is an ocean surrounding a rocky core.

Daniel Branton and his colleagues placed single - walled carbon nanotubes onto a silicon wafer, cooled it to about -163 °C and sprayed it with water, causing an 80 - nanometre - thick layer of ice to form.

After using a machine - learning approach to figure out the mass measurement, Cloutier and his team were able to determine the planet is either a mostly rocky planet with a small gaseous atmosphere — like Earth, but bigger — or a mostly water planet with a thick layer of ice on top of it.

With an average elevation of about 2,500 m, Antarctica is the highest continent on Earth, much due to a thick layer of ice covering the bedrock.

They conclude that at the time of the Lyot impact, the region was likely covered by a thick layer of ice.

The reason for that, they suggest, is that instead of landing directly on the surface, ejecta from Lyot landed on a thick layer of ice, which prevented it from gouging the surface beneath the ice.

Thus, we need to find means to melt the thick layers of ice of Human hearts to simply give back to our humanity a human face.

A cataract obscures vision the same way a thick layer of ice obscures your ability to see out of a car's windshield — you can look out the windshield and see light and shadows, but you can't see much else.

But as temperatures in the rapidly warming Arctic continue to climb, year after year, the warm season is straining even the oldest, thickest layers of ice.

Hubberten speculates that a thick layer of ice on top of the soil at the Yamal crater site trapped methane released by thawing permafrost.

This runaway effect would presumably continue until the entire planet froze over, with even the oceans covered with as much as a kilometer - thick layer of ice.

One would expect a major hit to the ocean ecosystem when it presumably got cut off from the Sun by a thick layer of ice, but only relatively small extinctions have been found.