Sentences with phrase «vast ocean region»

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«These data are a fundamental reference for the radiation hazards in near Earth «geospace» out to Mars and other regions of our sun's vast heliosphere,» says CRaTER principal investigator Nathan Schwadron of the UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS).

Robots like Nereus will make it much easier for scientists to explore vast regions of the deep ocean that were once off - limits.

They noticed that the waves traveled faster in two vast arc - shaped regions under the margins of the Pacific Ocean (blue in the illustration), while they slowed down in two equally large plume - shaped regions below the central pacific and Africa (red).

Blockbuster - moviemaker - turned - aquanaut James Cameron's solo dive in the Pacific to the Mariana Trench's Challenger Deep site last month opens up a vast, under - explored region of the world's oceans to researchers.

Join us for a unique expedition, a voyage into an ocean at the end of the world, cruise through the western and northern regions of this vast glaciated archipelago and discover snow covered mountains and glaciers, stark tundra, sea stacks and ice cliffs.

The city is the transportation and industrial hub of Tyumen Oblast — a vast, oil - rich region stretching from the Kazakh border to the Arctic Ocean — as well as home to many companies active in Russia's oil and gas industry.

This tour takes in the breathtaking scenery of the Great Ocean Road, one of Australia's best wine regions and vast farmland on route from Melbourne to...

In Rare's promising return to form, you will venture out onto a vast, open ocean, uncovering new regions scattered with unspoiled islands and the sunken ships of less agile sailors.

Canada House, London, until 30 November In the region around Floe Edge, where the vast Arctic Ocean meets frozen sea ice, the word «art» translates in Inuktitut as «sanaugait», which taken literally means «things made by hand».

There's intensified international jockeying over Arctic Ocean seabed resources, with Russia in August updating its claim to a vast region under the Law of the Sea convention (which the United States still has not ratified).

Although vast regions in the Arctic may soon be open water in summer and sometime late this century perhaps a blue ocean will exist at that end of the Earth, the sighting in 2000 was unremarkable.

It's a region of the North Pacific ocean where the northern jet stream and the southern trade winds, moving opposite directions, create a vast, gently circling region of water called the North Pacific Gyre — and at its center, there are tons of plastic garbage.

The magnitude of the dimming was as large as 10 — 20 % (based on a monthly average) over vast areas of land and ocean regions.

The West Siberian Plain — the world's largest — extends east from the Urals to the Yenisey River.8 Stretching from the Arctic Ocean to the foothills of the Altay Mountains in southern Russia, the plain encompasses more than 618 million acres (2.5 million square kilometers).8, 9 The region contains all the major vegetation zones except for tropical forests, including some of the world's largest swamps and floodplains and vast boreal forests.8, 9

The tropical oceans take up vast amounts of energy through air - sea heat fluxes, especially in the equatorial regions dominated by wind - driven upwelling of cold water.

During most of the Silurian Period, the vast Panthalassic Ocean covered the northern polar regions, the supercontinent of Gondwana stretched over the southern polar region, and a ring of at least six continents spanned the Equator and middle latitudes.