Sentences with phrase «by liquid methane»

Outside of Earth, Titan is the only other planetary body in the solar system with actively flowing rivers, though they're fed by liquid methane instead of water.

Photos taken during the lander's 150 - minute descent showed networks of branching streams possibly carved by liquid methane.

Not exact matches

Methane emissions from liquids unloading in the San Juan fell by 66 percent since 2013, and emissions from pneumatic devices fell by 59 percent, she said.

Ho and her colleagues created these delicate structures by attaching droplets of liquid gallium to tiny silicon wires and immersing them in a gas containing methane.

Huygens came to rest in what looked to be a floodplain strewn with «stones» of water ice polished smooth by flows of liquid methane, and it touched down with a crunch that suggested its slushy landing site was covered in a frozen glaze — a bit like crème brûlée.

The proposed main rocket is powered by liquid oxygen and methane, which could theoretically be extracted from soil on the moon or Mars.

One of the largest contributors to liquid milk's carbon footprint is enteric methane — gas emitted by the animal, research has found.

But chemical companies have also long had the technology to convert the primary hydrocarbons in natural gas — methane, ethane, and propane — into alcohols, the liquid starting materials for plastics, fuels, and other commodities made by the train load.

Once there it will produce propellant on Mars itself, either by distilling carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and mixing it with hydrogen brought from Earth to generate methane and oxygen or by electrolyzing water from the permafrost to make liquid hydrogen and oxygen.

Additional unprocessed images gathered during Cassini's plunge are available online, along with hundreds of thousands collected by the probe during the more than 13 years it has spend studying Saturn and its moons — observations which resulted in the publication of more than 3,000 studies and such discoveries as liquid methane seas at Titan and hydrothermal activity on Enceladus.

Estimates for the global size of the CO2 utilization market by 2030 in carbonate aggregates, fuels (methane and liquid fuels), concrete, methanol, and polymers are as large as $ 700 billion, utilizing 7 billion metric tons of CO2 per year, which is equivalent to approximately 15 percent of current global CO2 emissions.

Steam, methane and hydrocarbon liquids are proposed to be recovered via the annulus of the well with the hydrocarbon liquids being stripped at surface and the remaining products being recycled by the jet pumps in a continuous cycle.

They have created the first porous liquid, specially designed of cage - like molecules sized to capture small molecules like methane or carbon dioxide, but too large to be filled by the liquid solvent in which they are dissolved.