Sentence examples for deep hibernation from inspiring English sources

Although now in deep hibernation, there is still a chance that Philae could revive.

Of particular interest is the brown fat between the shoulder blades, known to assist the bats in warming up when they begin to leave deep hibernation in April.

"Consumers are in deep hibernation," C. Britt Beemer, chief executive of the America's Research Group, said, "and there is no sign that they will wake up this spring or that the retail outlook will pick up any time soon".

At this time of year, temperatures in Reykjavik hover around zero and the sun creeps above the horizon for just six hours a day, so its citizens could be forgiven for going into deep hibernation.

At present, the only way to bring a laptop to life quickly is to summon it not from a cold state, nor from deep hibernation (suspend-to-disk), but from standby mode (suspend-to-RAM), in which the last session is stored in memory.

Controllers also put the probe into a deep hibernation for almost 1,000 days as a way of conserving energy.

When a phone is placed flat on a desk, for instance, and not touched for a while, it puts the phone and apps into a deeper hibernation state.

The prey in question is the catchily named comet 67P/Churyumov Gerasimenko, which – if the probe is roused from deep space hibernation in the next few days and all goes to plan – Rosetta will slowly catch up with, then encircle and study before putting a robotic lander on the comet's surface before the end of 2014.

For two and a half of the 10 years it took Rosetta to reach comet 67P, all the spacecraft systems were switched off – a deep-space hibernation.

But Rosetta has travelled much farther than that to reach its destination, gaining speed, over the years, through a series of close flybys of Earth and Mars, and then entering deep-space hibernation.

After coming out of a near three-year, deep-space hibernation in January, the satellite now has sufficient power to check out its science payload.