Sentence examples for off from the surface from inspiring English sources

Phobos has such weak gravity that it would be relatively easy for astronauts to land and take off from the surface.

Lake Vostok is much more sealed off from the surface and is thought to take 10,000 years for its waters to renew.

In short, it's not impossible to be a successful open-ocean, flying animal that avoids the water, so such an issue for pterosaurs would not be fatal, and they at least could apparently take off from the surface easily.

While pterosaurs could fly well, and some studies suggest they could swim, and even take off from the surface of the water, very little thought has been applied to how they might sit on the surface.

This sheet thickens and expands and then, in a process called neurulation, folds in on itself to form a hollow tube that pinches off from the surface of the embryo and descends below it.

There, the scientist explains his mission: a methane leak in the Antarctic will cause a mass human extinction, and he and his colony have constructed a deep subterranean shelter, sealed off from the surface of Earth and stocked with supplies for a self-perpetuating society, that will serve as a sort of Noah's Ark to preserve and regenerate a vestige of the species.

The arbitrarily-rough surfaces displayed 'sticky superhydrophobicity' due to the water drops being adsorbed and not rolling off from the surfaces.

Democritus' theory of perception depends on the claim that eidôla or images, thin layers of atoms, are constantly sloughed off from the surfaces of macroscopic bodies and carried through the air.

Experimental measurements of dust lift-off from the surface of a bed of ore in a wind tunnel at different wind velocities are used to characterise the dust.

Superhydrophobic CF surfaces were achieved by application of a hydrophobic siloxane-based hydrocarbon coating, which increased the water contact angle from 147° to 163° and decreased the contact angle hysteresis from 71° to below 5°, sufficient to cause droplet roll-off from the surface.

All mixture design methods for pervious concrete have been proposed under the hypothesis that cement paste uniformly coats on the surface of aggregate and does not drain off from the aggregate surface to clog the interconnected voids between aggregate particles.