Sentence examples for plume of material from inspiring English sources

Analysis of the plume of material thrown up by the Centaur impact showed that the lunar soil at the bottom of Cabeus was 5.6 percent water ice.

This changed last month, when NASA shot a satellite into a permanently shadowed region on the Moon's surface, throwing a plume of material containing water up out of the shadow.

Both share the same basic heritage of a directed energy array that heats the surface of the target to the point of high surface vapor pressure that causes significant mass ejection thus forming an ejection plume of material from the target that acts as a rocket to deflect the object.

Imaging during and after the landing of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover in 2012 provides a means to examine two transitory phenomena for the first time: the settling of the plume of material raised by the powered terminal descent, and the possible dispersal of 140 kg of hydrazine into the atmosphere as fine-grained solid carbazic acid.

At three different depths, the instruments picked up plumes of material drifting through the deep ocean.

The phenomenon of volcanism within tectonic plates, such as that which occurs in Hawaii, was understood by most geologists to be caused by plumes of material that rises from the mantle to the Earth's surface.

Triton moves in a retrograde orbit around Neptune that is, opposite to the direction of the planet's orbit around the Sun and features plumes of material rising through its tenuous atmosphere from a surface whose temperature is only 37 kelvins (K; −393 °F, −236 °C).

On three separate occasions in 2014, the Hubble Space Telescope saw what may be plumes of material extending about 200 kilometers into space from Europa's southern hemisphere.

The new image, which NASA featured as its image of the day today March 288), shows the solar prominence — a delicate combination of super-hot plasma and magnetic fields — just after it snapped, sending plumes of material out into space.

In the HRAVA process, the anode is heated by the arc, and a dense plasma plume of cathode material is formed by re-evaporation of cathode material from the anode.

All that day, children were allowed to play outside, despite the plume of radioactive material emerging from the reactor a few kilometres away.