News tagged with ocean interior
Ocean Circulation Doesn't Work As Expected
(PhysOrg.com) -- The familiar model of Atlantic ocean currents that shows a discrete "conveyor belt" of deep, cold water flowing southward from the Labrador Sea is probably all wet.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 13, 2009 |
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Venus, a planetary portrait of inner beauty
(Phys.org) -- A Venus transit across the face of the sun is a relatively rare event -- occurring in pairs with more than a century separating each pair. There have been all of 53 transits of Venus across the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
18 hours ago |
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Earthquakes without frontiers
Understanding the threat posed by unanticipated earthquakes in continental interiors is the focus of a new study led by the University of Cambridge.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 31, 2012 |
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Research estimates how long Titan's chemical factory has been in business
Saturn's giant moon Titan hides within a thick, smoggy atmosphere that's well-known to scientists as one of the most complex chemical environments in the solar system. It's a productive "factory" cranking ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 24, 2012 |
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Can sound science guide dispersant use during subsea oil spills?
Two years ago this week, oil began streaming from the seafloor into the Gulf of Mexico following the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon platform. All told, the disaster cost 11 lives, released 4.9 million ...
Apr 17, 2012 |
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Increasing water scarcity in California's Bay-Delta will necessitate trade-offs; 'hard decisions' needed
Simultaneously attaining a reliable water supply for California and protecting and rehabilitating its Bay-Delta ecosystem cannot be realized until better planning can identify how trade-offs between these two goals will be ...
Mar 29, 2012 |
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Is it snowing microbes on Enceladus?
There's a tiny moon orbiting beyond Saturn's rings that's full of promise, and maybe -- just maybe -- microbes.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 28, 2012 |
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Submarines -- the ultimate toy for the super rich
Jet plane, tick. Private island, tick. Chopper, tick. Submarine?
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 27, 2012 |
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Jupiter's melting heart sheds light on mysterious exoplanet
Scientists now have evidence that Jupiter's core has been dissolving, and the implications stretch far outside of our solar system.
Mar 22, 2012 |
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At 10, GRACE continues defying, and defining, gravity
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as the lead characters in the popular Broadway musical "Wicked" sing about defying gravity, the low-Earth orbiting twin spacecraft of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 19, 2012 |
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'Gravity is climate' - 10 years of climate research satellites GRACE
For the first time, the melting of glaciers in Greenland could now be measured with high accuracy from space. Just in time for the tenth anniversary of the twin satellites GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 16, 2012 |
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