Sentences with phrase «nh3 ice on its surface»

It's been cold but not too cold so there is a skin of ice on the surface, even a duck wouldn't dare to test it.

Combining high resolution images and infrared spectra collected during the probe's approach, a team of nearly two dozen scientists pinpointed three patches of water ice on the surface of the comet's «upper» half.

But it is not clear how common ice might be in the main asteroid belt, because sunlight is expected to quickly vaporise ice on the surfaces of airless bodies that fly closer to the sun than Jupiter.

In 2008, however, Andrew Rivkin of Johns Hopkins University in Laurel, Maryland, and Joshua Emery of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, found hints (pdf) that the asteroid 24 Themis, which sits in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, could have water ice on its surface.

That doesn't mean there is a cryovolcano producing a massive plume, but it could be just enough to replenish the ice on the surface, countering the instability that Titus discovered.

When the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew past Jupiter and its moons in 1979, it showed that Europa's surface is surprisingly free of impact craters, which suggests it is somehow recycling the ice on its surface.

«This was exactly the functionality that we wanted from the anti-icing surfaces: we wanted to secrete antifreeze only in response to the presence of ice on the surface, irrelevant of form — frost, glaze or rime,» said Rykaczewski.

The top layer is superhydrophobic, preventing freezing rain from forming ice on the surface.

Rime forms when droplets of water vapor deposit directly as ice on surfaces.

The latitudinal distribution of Charon's polar reddening suggests a thermally controlled production process, and the existence of highly localized patches rich in NH3 ice on its surface implies relatively recent emplacement.

Buie thinks Pluto's darker appearance is due to evaporation and redistribution of ice on the surface, which is in a delicate equilibrium with the thin atmosphere.

As nitrogen ice on the surface of the plain cools, it recedes, only to be replaced by a rising blob of nitrogen that has been warmed by Pluto's meagre internal heat source.

At perihelion, Pluto's surface temperature increases to about minus 220 degrees Celsius (minus 364 degrees Fahrenheit), allowing the ice on its surface to sublimate — that is, transition directly from a solid to a gas.

There is evidence for the recent condensation of ices on the surface of Titan, perhaps by active geologic processes.

«Quaoar, a large body in the Kuiper Belt, has crystalline water ice on its surface, yet conditions there should favour amorphous ice.»

TRAPPIST - 1f, g and h seem to have thin atmospheres and could potentially harbor water ice on the surface.

A coating of Safe Paw is left behind to resist icing on the surface of walkways, steps, porches, decks, patios and anywhere else you need safe, dependable footing.

Salt alternatives containing the active ingredient acetamide or crystalline amide are less caustic than those with calcium chloride and are a good choice if you have dogs and need to melt ice on surfaces where the dog walks.

They uniformly reject the idea that heat from the bottom — either from the general geothermal activity beneath the seabed or the occasional outbursts of lava or vents — could have a significant impact on the veneer of floating, drifting ice on the surface.

The point of the observations that you have gathered from the people who study, as opposed to merely post speculations, is the water near the bottom of the Arctic Ocean is isolated from the ice on its surface.

In the spring of 2009, the team of researchers drilled through the ice on the surface and into the bottom of Lake El» gygytgyn, which lies around 62 miles (100 kilometers) north of the Arctic Circle.

The entire structure loses mechanical strength despite the fact that only a tiny volume of ice on the surface changes temperature and thus its mechanical properties.

This cycling of CO2 into and out of ice on the surface changes the atmospheric mass by tens of percent over the course of a Martian year.»

The loss of large areas of ice on the surface could accelerate global warming because less of the sun's energy would be reflected away from Earth to begin with (refer back to our discussion of the greenhouse effect).

New paper finds East Antarctic ice sheet will have negative contribution to sea levels over next 200 years — Published The Cryosphere — Paper «studies one of the largest ice shelves in East Antarctica and predicts increased accumulation of ice on the surface of the ice shelf will have a net contribution of decreasing sea levels over the 21st and 22nd centuries.

An increase of solar radiation will lead to a rising temperature, to an extent depending on the amount of ice on the surface; an ice cover will reflect much of the extra radiation away, causing less heating, until eventually the heating is sufficient to melt the ice.

As the ice on the surface of the Arctic Ocean melts away, there is a smaller area of white ice to reflect the Sun's heat back into space and more open, dark water to absorb it.

Not exact matches

Some drinks require a hard shake, so vigorous it leaves pebbles of ice floating on the surface.

The event drew stars like Tampa Bay Lightning forward Steven Stamkos and Montreal Canadiens sharpshooter Mike Cammalleri, who, alongside a group of the league's most promising prospects, all paid for the opportunity to press iron, grunt through excruciating exercises and run skating drills on the storied ice surface at Toronto's St. Michael's College School Arena.

On the surface, Antarctica's ice still looks pretty still and stable.

The new system could potentially supply the power human crews on the Martian surface would need to energize habitats and run processing equipment to transform resources such as ice on the planet into oxygen, water and fuel, NASA said.

but today, on the surface, the water and ice will kill you fast.

By putting the bottom of the cake on top, you have a level surface to ice and it will have fewer crumbs to navigate.

(The proper consistency is when a ribbon of icing that falls back into the bowl remains on the surface for a few seconds before disappearing.)

Decorating: On top of flooding If you'd like to do other patterns / outlines or writing on top of the flooded surface so that they are raised above the flooded background, simply allow the icing to dry, preferably over nighOn top of flooding If you'd like to do other patterns / outlines or writing on top of the flooded surface so that they are raised above the flooded background, simply allow the icing to dry, preferably over nighon top of the flooded surface so that they are raised above the flooded background, simply allow the icing to dry, preferably over night.

The proper consistency is when the ribbon of icing that falls back into the bowl remains on the surface for about 5 seconds before disappearing.

(The right consistency to cover or «flood» sugar cookies is when you lift the beater, the ribbon of icing that falls back into the bowl remains on the surface for a few seconds before disappearing.

To cover or «flood» the entire surface of the cookie with icing, the proper consistency is when you lift the beater, the ribbon of icing that falls back into the bowl remains on the surface of the icing for a few seconds before disappearing.

To cover the entire surface of the cookie with icing, the proper consistency is when you lift the beater, the ribbon of icing that falls back into the bowl remains on the surface of the icing for a few seconds before disappearing.

1) Mix flour, butter and icing sugar in a bowl using two knives to cut the butter until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs 2) Add in the egg yolks and vanilla extracts and mix well, then add iced water until the dough starts to come together 3) Shape the dough into a ball on a cool, flat, floured surface 4) Flatten dough into a disc and then wrap in plastic wrap, and chill in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes 5) Meanwhile, peel, core and slice the apples into as thin slices as possible 6) Mix sugar and ground cinnamon powder with sliced apples and let it rest for a while 7) Pre-heat oven to 180 deg cel 8) Once dough has chilled, roll pastry dough on a sheet of parchment paper until it has expanded to the size of the tart mold (I used a rough mold the size of a large pizza) 9) Leaving at least an inch of dough free, arrange apple slices by overlapping them slightly in the shape of a circle, starting from the outermost part of the circle, until you reach the inside 10) Fold the edges of dough over the filling and then sprinkle the dough with a bit of sugar 11) Bake for about 40 - 45 minutes, or until the crust is golden brown and the apples are soft 12) Serve warm, with a side of whipped cream or ice cream (optional)

Once all your ice cream has been scooped into the bowl, use plastic wrap to press down the ice cream and «smush» the flavors together creating a flat surface on top.

(if using a non-lidded container, press a piece of parchment paper on the surface of the ice cream and freeze.)

The saltmakers boil the brine, then reduce the temperature until inverted - pyramid crystals form on the surface, like the skein of ice on a martini.

Then, just as the surface gets too bad, out comes a bucket brigade; water on the ice supposedly lessens the friction.

It started on a New Year's Day, with pomp, parades, bowl queens and quarterbacks in a traditional spectacle, and it ended hardly hours ago to the shush of skis across a hundred mountain slopes, the tranquillity of a year - end sunset seen from a thousand duck blinds and the last ice fisherman packing up his gear onthe frozen surface of Lake Minnetonka.

A goalie has to be locked in for 60 + minutes, following the puck every square inch on the ice surface.

Stockton will play it's next game on the ice surface and I can only imagine that it is going to be pure chaos.

Salt lowers the melting point of ice (and we might investigate this process later on), but by doing so it means that the surface of the can is actually below freezing point.

Those ice cream swirls are the perfect surface for baby to gnaw on.

So the Chicago Park District's Marine Rescue Unit gathered on the frozen surface of the Lincoln Park Lagoon with ropes, tires, car battery jumper cables, tree limbs and even screwdrivers to demonstrate what to do in the event that someone falls through the ice.