Sentences with phrase «ammonia ice and the water»

«The upper haze is so optically pretty thick that it is only in the stormy regions where the haze is penetrated by powerful updrafts that you can see evidence for the ammonia ice and the water ice.

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To their surprise, the ice bubbled like boiling water at temperatures between -210 C / -346 F and -120 C / -184 F. Analysis of the gas showed it to be hydrogen molecules, which the researchers believe were formed from methanol and ammonia broken up by UV irradiation.

On Ceres, the ice is made up of frozen salt water and mud, but on Pluto, it's probably ammonia.

Deep inside, beneath the dust, are pristine ices — water ice, ammonia ice, CO2 ice, carbon monoxide ice, and others.

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The Dawn probe has previously detected salts, ammonia - rich clays and water ice on Ceres, which together indicate hydrothermal activity, says study coauthor Carol Raymond, a planetary scientist

Charon, with its weaker gravity, has lost the substances that can turn to vapour and escape more easily, and is mostly water - ice tainted by ammonia.

The mountains are made primarily of rock - hard water ice; the dunes are most likely ice granules coated with hydrocarbons; volcanoes probably belch methane and ammonia, and methane fills the lakes, evaporates to form clouds, and rains back down to carve out river channels.

They pointed a variety of infrared telescopes at interstellar dust clouds and discovered dips at specific frequencies corresponding to molecules including methanol, ammonia, and water ice.

«Ceres has evidence of ammonia - bearing hydrated minerals, water ice, carbonates, salts, and now organic materials.

In the latter scenario, water ice would make up 22 percent of the cloud head and ammonia ice 55 percent.

The key finding: cloud particles at the top of the great storm are composed of a mix of three substances: water ice, ammonia ice, and an uncertain third constituent that is possibly ammonium hydrosulfide.

In addition, optical and radar images of the surface show signs of cryovolcanism — geyserlike eruptions of ammonia - water ice — which also indicates that material wells up from the interior.

Discovered in 1978 by the United States Naval Observatory, Charon is the largest of Pluto's five moons and is only half the size of Pluto and one - eighth of its mass, with a surface dominated by a mixture of water ice and frozen ammonia.

This new finding is important because it's one of the first exoplanets in this mass range that lies beyond the «snow line» — the distance during formation of a planetary system beyond which ice can form from water, ammonia, and methane.

The detailed analysis of the spectra suggests that Sromovsky's team has observed ice particles, made of a mixture of water and ammonia (which gives urine its smell).

While exposed water ice would not be stable at the surface of Ceres at its relatively close distance to the Sun, water and ammonia do appear to be bound up in crustal minerals on the asteroid's surface.