Auto & Tires : Battery Finder Important Walmart Disclaimer: Product information is provided by the supplier or manufacturer of the product and should not be construed as advice. Walmart does not sponsor, recommend or endorse any third party, product, service or information provided on this site.Police seized a 'glow-in-the-dark' supercar from a London street after its wealthy Qatari owner was stopped for not having a licence or the correct insurance.The £350,000 Lamborghini Aventador - with a paint job that made it look like something out of the sci-fi film Tron - was impounded near Harrod's in Knightsbridge yesterday.It is understood its owner is 24-year-old Nasser Al-Thani, a member of Qatar's ruling family. Supercar: Police stopped the driver of the £350,000 Lamborghini Aventador in Knightsbridge, London Sci-fi: The customised car has scissor doors and a glow-in-the-dark paint job that makes it look like something out of the film Tron Stopped: Police seized the car after its driver failed to produce a driving licence or correct insurance documents

Problem: Pictured earlier in the day, the supercar understood to be owned by 24-year-old Nasser Al-Thani, of Qatar's ruling family, was also missing a front numberplate Attraction: A crowd gathered around the unusual-looking car as police waited for a tow truck to arrive Police stopped the car, which was also missing its front number plate, on Brompton Street and had it towed away after Mr Al-Thani failed to produce a licence or the correct insurance.A crowd gathered around the ostentatious scissor-door car, which has been customised by a Japanese tuning company, as three police officers on motorbikes waited for the tow-truck to arrive. When a low-loader finally appeared, an officer slowly drove the supercar onto the back before it was transported to a local pound. One onlooker said: 'It is great when the wealthy foreign tourists come over to London every summer as you always see these amazing supercars.'The Lamborghini looked like something out of Tron, it was absolutely stunning.'

Ticket: Police attached a note explaining why they were seizing the Lamborghiniair duct cleaning scottsbluff ne Backing up: A low-loader arrived to take the supercar away from Brompton Street, Knightsbridgesmokemaster electronic air cleaner Easy does it: A police officer (seen in wing mirror) carefully edges the £350,000 car onto the ramphoneywell oscillating tower air purifier hfd 120 q Secured: Officers arranged to have the Lamborghini taken to a car pound Royals: The Al-Thani family rules Qatar and has previously had two of their supercars clamped outside Harrods Taken away: Police are able to seize uninsured cars until drivers can provide proof of insurance Millionaire's playground: A host of cars with Arabic numberplates, including the Lamborghini, are pictured outside the Dorchester Hotel on Park Lane

Wealthy Middle-Eastern drivers descend on the capital in their supercars every summer and have even been the subject of a Channel 4 documentary, Millionaire Boy Racers, which showed angry residents saying their driving style was ruining the area for locals.The Al-Thani family are renowned for their wacky supercars and hit the headlines three years ago when their blue Lamborghini and Koenigseggs were clamped outside Harrods. The Lamborghini Aventador is one of the world’s fastest supercars.It is powered by a 6.5-litre V12 engine which gives a 0-62mph time of 2.9 seconds and a top speed of 217mph.Video courtesy of Totalrevs SupercarsFrom the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN and the “must add a global warming caveat to prevent backlash” department: Scientists map movement of Greenland Ice during past 9,000 years Scientists have created the first map that shows how the Greenland Ice Sheet has moved over time, revealing that ice in the interior is moving more slowly toward the edges than it has, on average, during the past 9,000 years.

The findings, which researchers said don’t change the fact that the ice sheet is losing mass overall and contributing to sea level rise, are published in the Feb. 5 issue of Science. Along Greenland’s periphery, many glaciers are rapidly thinning. However, the vast interior of Greenland is slowly thickening, a process the new study clarifies. “Scientists are very interested in understanding how ice sheets flow and how that flow may have been different in the past. Our paleo-velocity map for Greenland allows us to assess the flow of the ice sheet right now in the context of the last several thousand years,” said lead author Joe MacGregor of The University of Texas at Austin’s Institute for Geophysics (UTIG), a research unit of the Jackson School of Geosciences. The study builds on earlier UTIG-led research that developed a database of the many layers within Greenland’s ice sheet. Using this database, the scientists determined the flow pattern for the past 9,000 years — in effect creating a “paleo-velocity” map.

In comparing the paleo-velocity map with modern flow rates, researchers found that the ice sheet’s interior is moving more slowly now than during most of the Holocene, a geological period that began about 11,700 years ago and runs to the present. “Like many others, I had in mind the ongoing dramatic retreat and speedup along the edges of the ice sheet, so I’d assumed that the interior was faster now too. But it wasn’t,” said MacGregor. The authors identified three causes for this deceleration. First is that snowfall rates were generally higher during the past 9,000 years, second is the slow stiffening of the ice sheet over time, and third is the collapse of an “ice bridge” that used to connect Greenland’s ice to that on nearby Ellesmere Island. Of most interest were the last two. “The ice that formed from snow that fell in Greenland during the last ice age is about three times softer than the ice being formed today,” according to William Colgan of York University’s Lassonde School of Engineering, a co-author of the study.

Because of this difference, the ice sheet is slowly becoming stiffer. As a consequence, the ice sheet is flowing more slowly and getting thicker over time. This effect is most important in southern Greenland, where higher snowfall rates have led to rapid replacement of ice from the last glacial period with more modern Holocene ice. “But that didn’t explain what was happening elsewhere in Greenland, particularly the northwest, where there isn’t as much snowfall, so the stiffening effect isn’t as important,” said MacGregor. The explanation of deceleration in the northwest lies in the collapse 10,000 years ago of an “ice bridge” across Nares Strait, which used to connect Greenland’s ice to that on Ellesmere Island. The collapse of the ice bridge at the end of the last ice age led to acceleration in the northwest, but the ice sheet has since returned to a slower pace. These changes, which started thousands of years ago, affect our understanding of the changing Greenland Ice Sheet even today.