Sentences with phrase «absence of liquid water»

The ice in the permafrost of is formed not by liquid water, but by frozen water vapour; the absence of liquid water, makes the soil less likely to be able to sustain life.

The ice in the permafrost is formed not by liquid water, but by frozen water vapor; the absence of liquid water, makes the soil less likely to be able to sustain life.

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Structures that look like ice rafts are floating in a refrozen matrix; the remarkable absence of craters there points to a geologically active surface and hints that liquid water may have welled up from below in the recent past.

In the absence of complex plants, Menou's analysis shows that these planets would remain glaciated much of the time and only transiently enter a state with enough liquid water for life to take hold (arxiv.org/1411.5564v1).

In the absence of an external atmospheric pressure, the warming of water ice transforms it into directly into gas phase rather than liquid.

In the absence of such aerosols, the spontaneous conversion of water vapour into liquid water or ice crystals requires conditions with relative humidities much greater than 100 percent, with respect to a flat surface of H2O.