This is because lighter colors take in less of the strong heat of the sun than dark colors do.

VOA: special.2009.08.19

Mister Wegener said the lighter continental rock floated up through the heavier basalt rock of the ocean floor.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

Because of the gravity on Mars, spacesuits may have to be designed to be lighter than suits used in orbit or on the moon.

VOA: special.2011.04.06

In fact,their silk is even lighter and softer than silk from silkworms.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

The body is light to reddish brown, but lighter on its underside.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

It was lighter now and was floating higher in the water.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

Confederate losses were much lighter about twenty thousand.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

Confederate losses were much lighter: about twenty thousand.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

Pink is a lighter kind of red.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

The challenge for designers was to create a vehicle with the protection provided by an MRAP but about 25 per cent lighter.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

"Big ears, big old jug ears like that." Pett says,cartoonists are essential to showing the lighter side of life, especially in difficult times.

VOA: standard.2010.03.20

the major innovation ahead is making those batteries lighter and smaller.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

"Basically,it's an underwater balloon. You've got two parts to it: You've got the balloon here - which is this long cylindrical object - and that's filled with a lighter-than-water substance, which is aviation gasoline."

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

General Brogan says because of some technical innovations M-ATVs are not nearly as cumbersome as MRAPs, but rather are almost as maneuverable as the much lighter and more lightly armored Humvees, even in the sands of Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

"If you happened to be a Taino who lived up in the mountains and you weren't in the sun a lot and maybe your skin was a little lighter, then they threw you in the 'white' bucket."

VOA: standard.2010.04.05