Sentences with phrase «vast ice deposits»

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Although Mercury's daytime temperatures exceed 800 degrees Fahrenheit, radar studies indicate that the planet has vast deposits of ice within the perpetually dark, frigid craters at its poles.

After downloading a few files from his site and depositing them in my Celestia folder, I found myself staring at a blue planet, cloud formations swirling across its surface, its vast oceans punctuated with landmasses and polar ice caps.

«The randomly jumbled mountains might be huge blocks of hard water ice floating within a vast, denser, softer deposit of frozen nitrogen within the region informally named Sputnik Planum.»

It was formed during the ice age when the prevailing winds transported the vast quantities of sand from New South Wales and deposited it along the coast of Queensland, forming the island as we know it today.

«Beneath Siberia's snow may lie geologic formations that hold vast deposits of fossil fuels, as well as mineral resources» as if they didn't have drills that get through ice and like Canada, prefer to work on ice than on mud.

There are continuing major questions about the future of the great ice sheets of Greenland and West Antarctica; the thawing of vast deposits of frozen methane; changes in the circulation patterns of the North Atlantic; the potential for runaway warming; and the impacts of ocean carbonization and acidification.