We zoom over foot-thick ice covered in packed, crusty snow.
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A thick, hard layer of ice covered the field for three months.
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Ice-covered areas stay cooler since sea ice reflects most incoming solar radiation.
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It may sound strange to drive a snowmobile across ice-covered water in June.
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Solid ice covered the landscape, preventing the reindeer from accessing their natural food source.
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To determine this, they modeled the ice-covered continent using standard ice flow models.
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"Interstates in Oklahoma are ice covered," the Oklahoma Highway Patrol tweeted from its official account.
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In 303, Arctic sea ice covered about 2.7 million square miles (7 million square kilometers).
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As shiny, ice-covered surface gives way to darker ocean water, the Arctic absorbs additional heat.
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Sea ice covered 46,300 fewer square miles in June 2016 -- the record-holder -- than last month.
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Sea ice in the Southern Hemisphere fringes an ice-covered continent, Antarctica, surrounded by open oceans.
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That's because while these birds live on ice-covered surfaces, they need to breed on exposed land.
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Neighbor Julie Drew yelled, "'Oh my God, I think I see a dog!" in the ice covered woods.
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As such, the radiocarbon ages suggest these landscapes have been continuously ice-covered for at least 40,000 years.
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Scientists have long wondered whether the ice-covered moon could harbor life in a subsurface liquid water ocean.
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A local restaurant, Hoak's, shared a photo of their ice-covered outdoor bar with the caption "truly beautiful."
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Their data showed that the ice covered just 14.49 million square kilometers (5.59 million square miles) on Feb.
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Also on Saturday, another vehicle overturned on an ice covered roadway in Nodaway County and the driver was ejected.
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Also on Saturday, another vehicle overturned on an ice covered roadway in Nodaway County and the driver was ejected.
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Severed into a dozen pieces, an imposing tree branch is magically encapsulated in glass jars, evoking ice-covered limbs.
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After the engines froze in a subzero fog, the pilots made an emergency landing on the ice-covered sand.
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Or a less exotic possibility: maybe biology could arise in the buried ocean on an ice-covered alien world.
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Astronomers have found evidence of ice-covered water on Jupiter's moon Europa and deep beneath the Martian polar ice caps.
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The vessel&aposs research will include the ocean's salinity, ice-covered water, currents and other polar elements, the Guardian reported.
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The film's best sequence, a nighttime battle on an ice-covered lake, has its combatants skating as much as fighting.
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It chronicles our best understanding of the changes sweeping through our oceans and the ice-covered parts of the globe.
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Parked in orbit around Saturn, the ice-covered moon features a warm subterranean ocean and the basic chemical ingredients for life.
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This ocean, which is typically ice-covered at the time, lost an area of ice the size of Idaho during February.
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Be prepared for hazardous travel due to the reduced visibility and snow/ice covered roads, in addition to hazardous wind chills.
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Hundreds of individual waterways gush across our planet's ice-covered continent in the summertime, and they've been doing so for decades.
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Authorities reported a fatal crash in the state after a driver lost control of his pickup on an ice-covered road.
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Enceladus is small and ice-covered, as compared to Earth, but it has liquid water, and just about everything required for life.
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And although astronomers presume it to be a rocky asteroid, they aren't even entirely sure—it could be an ice-covered comet.
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With surprising frequency, this ice-covered moon spurts a plume of water into space—a telltale sign that a global ocean lies underneath.
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"These are all snow/ice-covered volcanoes that have a reasonable probability of erupting in the next 10 to 50 years," said Edwards.
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In 2141 Arctic sea ice covered 2580m square km (3m square miles) at its minimum extent, whereas last year that dipped to 4.6m.
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"You can imagine how difficult it was to carry unconscious people down a flight of stairs that was ice-covered," Lieutenant Conboy said.
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K2-18b instead looks like it could be a rocky planet twice as big as Earth, perhaps covered in vast ice-covered seas.
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Lake Vanda is an ice-covered lake fed by the Onyx River, the longest surface river in Antarctica, which only flows in summer.
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State troopers said they had responded to several weather-related crashes and warned that ice-covered bridges were hazardous in the area of Birmingham.
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EuropaImage: NASAOur Solar System has its own Hoth: Europa, the ice-covered Jovian moon where the existence of alien life hasn't been ruled out.
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An ice-covered observation point at the base of Niagara Falls in Ontario as the falls are illuminated by colored light on Jan. 9.
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And if you are a clumsy human being like me, ice-covered sidewalks mean near-certain wipeouts whenever you try to leave the house.
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The European Space Agency/Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter's CaSSIS instrument captured this image of ice-covered dunes, released by the ESA this week.
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The cost of building additional Arctic icebreakers, special-purpose ships designed to navigate through ice-covered waters, is estimated at approximately $22019 billion each.
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The absence of older craters might be explained by what geologists describe as the "Snowball Earth" period, when ice covered almost the entire planet.
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But either way this is conventional landslide behaviour on snow and ice covered surfaces, and we have seen other large isolated boulders travel long distances.
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Bierman and his colleagues interpret this to mean that the sediment source—Greenland's eastern highlands—has been ice-covered for the past 7.5 million years.
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Clambering inside on ice-covered concrete, water dropping from the walls, the smashed ceiling lit by torches, it is easy to imagine the midnight attack.
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But similar in the way that water is being lost from the moon, water could also be added when ice-covered comets collide with the moon.
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The Helsinki shipyard was the world's biggest builder of vessels that can navigate ice-covered waters until sanctions prompted by the Ukraine crisis disrupted its finances.
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On that date, the ice covered 14.42 million square kilometers (5.57 million square miles),97,000 square kilometers below the previous lowest maximum that occurred on Feb.
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"The usually ice-covered Bering Strait is almost completely open water," said Zack Labe, a climate scientist and Ph.D. candidate at the University of California at Irvine.
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That water means there's a liquid ocean beneath the moon's ice-covered surface, which may have geothermal vents like those found at the bottom of our oceans.
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During every day in May, for example, sea ice extent — which measures how much ocean is at least 13% ice-covered — was lower than ever observed since 1979.
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Importantly, this mission could also serve as a proxy for future expeditions to the ice-covered moons of Jupiter and Saturn—moons that could potentially harbor alien life.
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Unlike the even heftier Empire Penguins, which live and breed in massive colonies on ice-covered Antarctica, King Penguins can only survive on cold, though ice-free islands.
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But that heart, which is actually a nitrogen-ice covered basin called Sputnik Planitia that stretches for 1,000 kilometers, isn't just a sign that Pluto needs some love.
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Areas of open water absorb more of the sun's incoming radiation compared to ice covered regions, making them heat up and release more water vapor into the atmosphere.
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The observations pointed to a more well-mixed, hotter and less ice-covered region just in the five-year stretch between 2011-2016, as compared to previous years.
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Douglas Ciampi of Westminster, Massachusetts, stands next to a rime ice-covered antenna while taking in the view from the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire, Feb. 23.
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"The usually ice-covered Bering Strait is almost completely open water," Zack Labe, a climate scientist and Ph.D. candidate at the University of California at Irvine, said over email.
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The new paper focuses on the ice-covered stretches of southwest Greenland, which has few large glaciers and was not generally considered as important a source of ice loss.
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Normally ice-covered seas in the Arctic, which is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, were virtually free of ice for much of the year.
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Behind it, Chhota Shigri spread upward into the peaks, a vast shoehorn of snow and ice covered with sharp-edged boulders, most of them the size of a car.
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EnceladusImage: NASA/JPL/Space Science InstituteUsing data collected by NASA's late-great Cassini space probe, scientists have detected traces of complex organic molecules seeping out from Enceladus' ice-covered ocean.
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The video starts with a distant view of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, and finishes with a "landing" on the shoreline of Sputnik Planitia, a bright, ice-covered basin.
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More ominous, the ocean is now free of ice most of the year; not that long ago, ice covered the sea near Nome generally from early November to late May.
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Sea ice area is derived from sea ice extent (total region ice covered) and sea ice concentration (fraction of sea water covered by ice) using this satellite data from the NSIDC.
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Doug Easthouse of the state Department of Natural Resources said hundreds of anglers spent the day standing on ice-covered Upper Red Lake in hopes of catching their limit of walleye.
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Beneath the moon's shiny, ice-covered surface lies a global liquid water ocean, kept warm by a rocky core that gets its heat from the gravitational tug of another Saturnian moon, Dione.
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"For sea ice, the threshold is generally 1 million square kilometers... So, the threshold may make differences between sea ice covered and ice-free seem larger than the really are," he cautioned.
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In a different research project, her fleet of 14 CTD-equipped narwhals spent their winter diving deep in the ice-covered Baffin Bay, which connects the Arctic Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean.
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TL;DR: The snow and ice-covered Gears 5 Xbox One X limited edition bundle comes with download codes for four older games and can be pre-ordered at Amazon for $499.99.
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Also on Saturday, another vehicle overturned on an ice covered roadway in Nodaway County and the driver was ejected, the patrol The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported the first road fatality on Friday.
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In a cyclical process that lasted for centuries, snow and ice covered this lead pollution, creating numerous sedimentary layers, and by consequence, a geological record extending for hundreds of feet into the ice.
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Obviously, it's passed time that we chucked some robotic submersibles over to chart this moon's dark, ice-covered seas, and to strike up an acquaintance with any beings that might inhabit its depths.
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People bundled in coats and scarves and hats shuffled across a small ice-covered plaza toward minivans and cheap sedans whose running engines filled the small parking lot with a fog of exhaust.
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The new study, while it explains Enceladus' liquid global ocean, internal heating, thinner ice at the south pole, and hydrothermal activity, doesn't explain why the northern polar region features ancient ice covered in craters.
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The Helsinki shipyard is the world's biggest builder of vessels that can navigate ice-covered waters and expects more orders as melting sea ice opens the Arctic to more shipping, mining and oil drilling.
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During the 2013 famine, the ice covered an area around 10,425 square miles (27,000 square kilometers), resulting in the 61,000 reindeer deaths, a death toll that accounts for nearly a quarter of the population.
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The birthday girl spent most of her trip on top of ice-covered mountains in fur coats, so it was only a matter of time before she ditched all the layers for a swimsuit.
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Back in 2013, researchers from Washington University detected at least one active, ice-covered volcano in Antarctica (also only the West Antarctic Ice Sheet), so it's reasonable to assume others may be active as well.
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They'll shuffle to an ice-covered pool and, under guidance from mission control—for at least one performance, that'll be me—they'll drill through the ice, insert a camera, then capture the "aliens" they find.
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A broad, snow- and ice-covered plain stretches horizontally with sod homes and sleigh dogs in the middle distance, and above the horizon a bright, low-hanging sun glows from the center of the scene.
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On a clear day, from the middle of a well-trafficked stretch of reinforced concrete that spans the Snoqualmie River in Washington state, you can make out the hulking, ice-covered flanks of Mount Rainier.
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And in South Dakota, a man was killed early Friday when the pickup truck he was riding in lost control on an ice-covered road near Cavour, in Beadle County, the state highway patrol said.
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An iron-rich asteroid measuring nearly a kilometer wide (0.6 miles) struck Greenland's ice-covered surface at some point between 3 million and 12,000 years ago, according to a new study published today in Science Advances.
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Scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Colorado instead measure sea-ice extent by dividing the images into grids and counting any squares with more than 15% ice concentration as "ice covered".
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"With this context, we then speculate that is is likely that these ancient landscapes now being exposed under modern warming have been continuously ice covered since the last interglacial period around 115,000 years ago," he added.
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It's a cozy space, with a record player and a stack of vinyl that includes both Billie Holiday's Greatest Hits and Led Zeppelin III set up along a window looking out onto distant, ice-covered islands.
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Untouched for thousands of years, the subglacial lakes may provide a tantalizing glimpse into the kinds of alien life that might exist on Europa and Enceladus, two ice-covered moons in the far reaches of our Solar System.
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In one of the most hostile regions known to humankind, conservationists unearthed an ice-covered fruitcake they believe once belonged to the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott, the New Zealand-based Antarctic Heritage Trust said this past week.
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President Donald Trump's far-fetched plan to acquire Greenland proved unsuccessful last year, but a new idea tucked away in the president's new budget request has a better chance: a consulate in the independent, ice-covered Danish territory.
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Instead, her prose sheds light on the messiness of Arctic beauty, on the sprawling, never-ending network of languages, cultures, and text that the ice-covered margins of the world evoke — an ecosystem of ideas that cannot be distilled.
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The number of visitors to the island has doubled since 2010 because it's known as a place where you can easily reach ice-covered volcanoes, crashing waterfalls, and wrecked airplanes and then post cool pictures of them on Instagram.
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American Skeleton racer John Daly has been doing that competitively for 15 years, but his sled, which slides down an ice-covered bobsled using a pair of metal runners, can actually hit speeds of up to 90 miles per hour.
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They intermingled with the indigenous occupants of tropical highlands and ice-covered steppes, were conquered by nomadic tribes who installed their own rulers on the Dragon Throne, and over time merged together into a country with a host of culinary influences.
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Think of some of the country's most well-known contemporary electronic artists, such as Björk or Ólafur Arnalds whose music is often covered in elegiac and brooding textures—an ice-covered overlay on the warm and emotional core of their music.
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Two people were killed and dozens were injured when a gasoline tanker skidded off an ice-covered Baltimore highway and exploded, sparking a 55-vehicle pileup as a winter storm brought snow and ice to the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, authorities said.
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In the new episode, titled "Ninja Blaze," AJ and Blaze team up with DJ Khaled's character — Ninja Master Blackbelt — to learn a thing or two about ninja skills in preparation to save their friends Pickle and Crusher from an ice-covered mountain.
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And last year, as Hillary DeLong neared the finish of the Chi Town Half Marathon in Chicago, she had to navigate her way through the crowds that had stepped off the ice-covered sidelines right onto the course, which was less icy.
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Jupiter's moon Europa is like the Brigadoon of the solar system: an idyllic moon with an ice-covered ocean that may hide some form of life, even though plans to send a spacecraft there keep receding farther and farther away into the Jovian mists.
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And yeah, Canada is a magical, ice-covered land where younger Canadians will surely rise to take the place of the aging players, but the gold-winning core of the team will not be old enough where they are likely to be replaced in 2022.
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In 2016, a study led by astronomer Anne-Marie Madigan from the University of California, Berkeley, suggested an outer Kuiper Belt disk comprised of ice-covered planetesimals—the bits and pieces left over from the formation of the Solar System—could be responsible for the strange TNO orbits.
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"He led them across a 100-meter valley of ice-covered boulders and through a fast-moving, waist-deep river on a rescue mission up the mountain," and, according to the Pentagon, later "braved the enemy onslaught" to administer first aid to a soldier hit by a sniper.
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The Husky Marching Band was traveling in a caravan of six buses to Pullman, Washington, for Friday's Apple Cup -- the annual college football game between the University of Washington and Washington State -- when a bus rolled over on an ice-covered stretch of Interstate 90, Trooper John Bryant said.
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The Corviglia Club is linked to the mountain's ski lodge, while the Cresta Club's small numbers rally around its toboggan run, a death-defying, headfirst solo journey down an ice-covered chute, which opened in 1884 and is allowing women to ride for the first time this year.
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In their latest excavation, in August and September, the months most suited to open navigation in the ice-covered waters, they probed areas of the ship that were accessible and that promised to yield artifacts, such as the officers' quarters, the pantry, niches for hammocks, sea chests and cabins.
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The area of ice slated to break off the ice-covered continent is more than 215,930 square miles, or greater than than 5,000 square kilometers in area, according to scientists affiliated with Project MIDAS, which monitors the ice shelf with support from the British Antarctic Survey and other partners.
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Life on Europa Could Be Just Beyond Our ReachOur Solar System has its own Hoth: Europa, the ice-covered Jovian moon where the existence of alien …Read more ReadIf there is some good news in all of this, it's that a future mission to Europa might avoid the equatorial regions anyway.
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Scott has interviewed newsmakers as diverse as Albanian Prime Minster Edi Rama, former U.S. Energy Secretary Sam Bodman and chart-topping rockers Aerosmith and reported from locations from the ice-covered top of Mount Washington in New Hampshire to storm-swept levees in New Orleans to the 2016 Rio Olympics.
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Pausing for a cigarette on his horse while his sheep and cows vanished into the mist on the ice-covered steppe, Mr. Kozhakov, who learned to ride when he was 93, said he had seen American cowboys in films and envied what struck him as their cushy and carefree lives.
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More recently, in April, a study published in the Ecological Society of America's Ecosphere journal found that the animals were increasingly isolated by the lack of sea ice on the one hand and the presence of ice-covered pastures, a result of rain during extreme warm spells, on the other.
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Secrets of the Ice "Glaciers melt back at an alarming pace because of higher temperatures, less snow and more rain, and in doing so they expose archaeological finds that have been safely ice-covered for centuries or even millennia," explained Vibeke Vandrup Martens, an archaeologist at the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research.
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The SALSA team is hoping to learn more about these frigid alien environments, such as how water might flow in and out of these ice-covered reservoirs, how life is able to survive under such extreme conditions, the environmental factors under which these lakes formed, and the changing conditions of the Antarctic ice sheet.
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Weiner directed all three if the episodes sent to critics for review, and he creates beautiful, watercolor-esque images — like the soft, wintry light of a purple morning drifting through an ice-covered window in Paris, or the surreal image of an opulent cruise liner at night, or a streak of fake blood smeared on the floor of a movie set meant to evoke a tumultuous moment in history.
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