As we kicked back on the top deck for lunch, the orcas moved languidly in a tight group near the surface.
Indicating the game's pressurised atmosphere, three players were booked inside the first half-hour as emotions bubbled near the surface.
That would leave a small, mobile craft that could maneuver on thrusters alone, hover near the surface, and lower the rover down.
Flying high in the earth's atmosphere, where the air is thin, is, he says, rather like flying near the surface of Mars.
Some recent studies have revealed a significant concentration of particles in near-surface waters in areas of mid-ocean accumulation (N Pacific and NW Atlantic gyres).
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Australia has some of the highest temperatures in its known near-surface rocks anywhere in the world and its geothermal potential is distributed over the entire country.
The methods used to find gold also varied with time since gold near the surface had been collected within the first few years of the gold rush.
Ozone is good when it's high up in the atmosphere, says the study's author Mark Jacobson, but it's very bad when it accumulates near the surface of the earth.
Ships are one of the biggest threats to right whales, which are slow swimmers and hang out near the surface of the water, where they're susceptible to being hit.
The land has first been raked by big excavator machines which have exposed the mines on or near the surface - but the next work has to be manual.
They threw bait into the water the trail of fish oil in their wake was visible more than a mile away and dumped spools of polypropylene cording, which floated near the surface.
"There is some near-surface gas hydrate, " she said Wednesday.
Fronteer announced that drilling by Newmont USA Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Newmont Mining, has intersected additional bonanza-grade, near-surface oxide gold at Sandman, one of three high-quality Nevada gold projects in Fronteer's future production platform.
Over millions of years this created an oxygen-rich atmosphere that rapidly removed electrons from minerals near the surface, creating rust out of iron and forming thousands of new minerals from other metals like nickel, copper and uranium.
To date, no such changes have been detected, but Dr Freund argues that the strain gauges deployed at the moment are too near the surface to pick up shifts that happen at the depths where earthquakes occur.
Phytoplankton -- microscopic organisms that congregate near the ocean surface - absorb atmospheric CO2 through photosynthesis.
The digital camera has also captured brighter spots on the surface that Near scientists are keen to study.
But the near-farcical playing surface, with the ball repeatedly held up in surface water, put Chelsea's passing game all at sea and Frank Leboeuf was almost caught out on the edge of his area trying to dribble clear.
In particular, they say measurements taken near the Earth's surface, which show a steady rise in global temperatures, are not supported by measurements taken at higher altitudes.
The temperature near your skin is greater than the temperature on the surface of your clothes, mainly due to a layer of trapped air near your body.
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Shetland Coastguard said the CHC Super Puma involved in the ditching was still floating on the surface of the sea near Fair Isle, about 30 miles south of Shetland.
Its first grainy, wide-angle images showed its own left rear wheel parked on the surface of Gale Crater near the equator of Mars, close to the foot of a three-mile-high mountain it aims to explore in months to come.
During solar maximum, the intense magnetic fields that reach above the Sun's surface become tangled, particularly near the sunspots.
As Paul Lim of the New York Times recently wrote, certain characteristics tend to surface when the stock market is near a peak.
Major-General Henry Osman showed a video which he said showed bomb damage on surface-to-air missiles site near Kandahar.
Any shipping, whether on the surface or under it, which passes near a glider can be detected, identified and pinpointed without it realising it has been spotted.
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As near as anyone can figure, the Earth's surface temperature increased 1 degree Fahrenheit in the 20th century.
Vaporizing nickel onto the surface and removing that screen leaves behind a near-perfect grid of metal, hexagonal dots.
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