Who needs space when there remain the unfathomable depths of our own oceans?
VIIRS will collect radiometric imagery in visible and infrared wavelengths of the Earth's land, atmosphere, and oceans.
"Some people have proposed that there were oceans early in Martian history; others have said there were not.
Most of us slather on oceans of lotions every day, but we don't think about what might be passing the skin barrier and being absorbed into our bodies.
An ice age has been blamed for the extinctions - a huge ice sheet in the southern hemisphere caused climate change and a fall in sea level, and messed with the chemistry of the oceans.
What percentage of the earth is covered by oceans?
Magma appeared in abundance and in some locations formed vast molten oceans.
In other words, the snakes went rafting, crossing oceans aboard floating vegetation stocked with their insect prey.
Scientists at Oregon State University have identified vast reservoirs of water beneath the ocean floor. In fact, there may be more water under the oceans than in them.
Water is part of a large cycle: it travels over land via rivers and lakes and through the oceans before evaporating into the atmosphere and eventually returning to the surface by precipitation.
Earth's oceans are vast, unexplored regions full of unanswered questions.
Air pollution contributes to water pollution and increases acidity in oceans and lakes.
It was fungi that first allowed plants to move out of the oceans and on to land by establishing a symbiotic relationship that still exists today.
Massive releases of methane from arctic seafloors could create oxygen-poor dead zones, acidify the seas and disrupt ecosystems in broad parts of the northern oceans, new preliminary analyses suggest.
The oceans are vast surface features we can at present recover only a very minor amount of fresh water from oceans.
Imagine the tides a moon that close would raise on an Earth awash with oceans of magma!
We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be.
A tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian oceans.
Dr Jiao estimates that the amount of carbon stored by the oceans in this way is equal to the amount in the atmosphere, in the form of carbon dioxide.
There is a clear warming, though, if a lesser one, in two other records made independently; that of the temperature of the oceans' surface waters and of the night time air temperature over the oceans.
Whence came they?…from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans.
The Panama Canal joins two oceans.
This ocean is much deeper than the water oceans of the earth.
Across the seas and oceans of Asia, islands and the waters around them are frequently a source of dispute and even military confrontation.
Since Newton’s time, mathematicians and physicist have investigated the tides by considering the response of the oceans to the tide-generating forces.
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