Sentence examples for thick ice layer from inspiring English sources

Jupiter's moon Europa is covered with a thick ice layer which may harbor a watery ocean several kilometers thick (Manga and Wang 2007).

2010 was an unusual winter with heavy snow falls followed by strong repeated thawing events which resulted in a lesser overall snow accumulation and a thick ice layer underneath the snowpack.

This sets the moon apart from the planet Mercury, where thick ice layers are common inside polar craters.

PARIS--It may not be an underground ocean, but a first peek beneath the Martian surface has revealed some buried treasure, including impact craters and thick ice layers, that could shed new light on the geologic history of the planet.

Like earlier Earth-based radar imaging, the analysis showed no sign of thick ice layers.

Generally the collapse occurred as a consequences of: incorrect arrangement of the structure, unsufficient strength and rigidity of main structural elements, and finally of the overloading action of thick ice – snow layer.

"The picture of Titan that we get has an icy, rocky core with a radius of a little over 2,000 kilometers, an ocean somewhere in the range of 225 to 300 kilometers thick and an ice layer that is 200 kilometers thick," he said.

Huge ice sheets spread over the land (imagine an ice layer a mile thick, as modern interpretations suggest) and sufficient ice to drop sea-level by over 100 meters.

However, in 2010 the surface ice layer was considerably thicker, varying from 4 cm in snow free areas to 27 cm under 50 cm of snow.

It was the first non-nuclear ship ever to reach the north pole (in 1991), capable of breaking through a continuous ice layer that is two metres thick.

Ganymede possesses a layer of liquid water beneath a thick ice cover and thus has a potential for harbouring life.