2012年4月26日 · As Earth hurtles around its axis at 1,000 miles per hour, its rotation sets the seas in motion and generates winds that bear down on the ocean surface. The fast-moving currents, swirling eddies and powerful drifts that result …

The fast-moving currents, swirling eddies and powerful drifts that result appear at first glance as a disorderly jumble of flows. Yet their movements are directed by enormous, rotating currents, called gyres, which slowly circulate water around the planet's major ocean basins.

2011年6月22日 · Swirling seas of plastic trash. Long-lasting oceanic garbage threatens marine life

2023年11月23日 · According to the Ramsar Sites Information Service, more than one million seabirds gather there during the breeding season. Among them are the black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla), pink-footed geese (Anser branchyrhynchus), and the …

2025年3月14日 · The South Sandwich Islands are a remote group of eleven small volcanic peaks arranged in an arc in the southern Atlantic Ocean. They sit about 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) northeast of the Antarctic Peninsula and within the Scotia Sea, a frigid body of water littered with icebergs and under the sway of the powerful Antarctic Circumpolar Current. ...

EO Kids, a publication from the Earth Observatory, highlights science stories for a younger audience. In our new edition, we explore the swirling seas of phytoplankton blooms and create your own NASA science visualization by making a flipbook. Read about how these tiny organisms are making a big impact on our living Earth.

2024年11月6日 · From Keith Keppel Iris catalog, 1984: SWIRLING SEAS (Gatty '84) E 36" (Full Tide X Five Star Admiral). Big and blocky flowers of marine blue, heavily ruffled as the name implies. Style arms match the petal color, whereas the …

2006年10月17日 · Faceted bricks stack snugly into a tidy, compact structure. Underlying each of these objects is a remarkable geometric shape made up of a sequence of triangles—a spiral polygon that resembles a...

Plant database entry for Tall Bearded Iris (Iris 'Swirling Seas') with one image and 31 data details.

2006年10月21日 · Underlying each of these objects is a remarkable geometric shape made up of a sequence of triangles--a spiral polygon that resembles a seahorse's tail. Hungarian industrial designer and graphic artist Daniel Erdely called the form a spidron when he discovered it …