Sentence examples for icy soil from inspiring English sources

In the first movement, the prisoner is on the run: "I have cold earth in my mouth, icy soil".

An impressive array of cameras, sensors, and microscopes will monitor the environment and analyze the icy soil samples.

The sample was then left to sublime for 6 h to simulate the loss of volatiles from icy soil at high latitudes on Mars.

Experts have long known that northern lands were a storehouse of frozen carbon, locked up in the form of leaves, roots and other organic matter trapped in icy soil — a mix that, when thawed, can produce methane and carbon dioxide, gases that trap heat and warm the planet.

That mission used a motorised cutting tool called a rasp to break up the hard, icy soil along with a scooper to retrieve the samples for analysis.

An increasingly fiery North could be especially consequential due to what lies underneath: permafrost, the icy soil which spans 85percentt of Alaska, half of Canada, and a quarter of the Northern Hemisphere.

Instead, much of the work on permafrost degradation over the past few decades has focused on the widespread, slow melting of the icy soils from the top down, says Vladimir Romanovsky, a geophysicist at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, who was not involved in the new study.

As teams of farmers, men and women, broke the icy winter soil for planting, not a tractor was running.

It carried six experiments to study the history of water on the planet and search for organic molecules in the icy subsurface Martian soil.

Experimental and demonstration plantations were started in 1976 and are related to the introduction of species, to techniques of plantations and to production, as well as of genetic improvement, bearing in mind installation conditions, soil, humidity, winds and icy conditions.

Summer storms can cause lasting damage by breaking limbs, drying out soil and knocking over pots, while icy winter gales can freeze and desiccate leaves.