Sentences with phrase «crystal water surface»

The crystal water surface somehow becomes waveless in the afternoon reflecting clouds and mountain like a mirror.

Not exact matches

Supercooled water droplets in a cloud can remain liquid at temperatures far below freezing, their surface tension preventing solid crystals from forming.

A cubic yard of air contains hundreds of thousands of microscopic specks, but only about one in a million possesses the exact molecular geometry that will organize water molecules on its surface to spawn an ice crystal.

A little mineral crystal can act as a template, coaxing water molecules on its surface to organize into the hexagonal lattice of an ice crystal.

The two most common surface orientations of snow crystals are those shown: the six - sided face parallel to the layers of water molecules is called the basal face, and the rectangular faces are called prism faces.

The branching involves the way in which water molecules in the air move toward the crystal; and the symmetry involves their final attachment to the crystal surface, causing the crystal to grow.

A protein on the cell surface of P. syringae binds water in a way that mimics the structure of an ice crystal, and this helps start the transformation of cold water into ice.

Although surface water played an important role in the generation of both Icelandic and Hadean crystals, in the Icelandic case the water was extremely hot when it interacted with the source rocks while the Hadean water - rock interactions were at significantly lower temperatures.

Other research has found that sea ice is a natural reservoir of iron, which is captured by ice crystals as they form in deeper water and float to the surface.

Fifteen years ago these crystals first made headlines when they revealed the presence of water on the surface of the Earth (thought to be a key ingredient for the origin of life) when they were forming.

NASA insists that the crystal features spotted by Curiosity Rover on Martian surface are not traces of alien life — just rock crystals formed by water.

«Our spectra point consistently to cryovolcanism, which brings liquid water to the surface, where it freezes into ice crystals.

At the extremely low surface temperatures on these objects, water ice takes a disordered, amorphous form instead of the regularly ordered crystals typical in warmer areas, such as snowflakes on Earth.

When an icy impact occurred, the impactor's kinetic energy became heat energy, instantly melted some ice, gouged out a crater, and kicked up into Mars» thin atmosphere large amounts of debris mixed with water (liquid, ice crystals, and vapor)-- and complex organic molecules that obviously came recently from life.127 Then, the dirt and salt - water mixture settled back to the surface in vast layers of thin sheets — strata — especially around the crater.

The Cassini mission revealed that Enceladus has a hotspot at its south pole and propels geysers of ice crystals from its surface, indicating to scientists that liquid water likely exists beneath its surface.

Chinese historians are certain that by 6000 b.c., each year, when the lake's waters evaporated in the summer sun, people harvested the square crystals on the surface of the water, a system the Chinese referred to as «dragging and gathering.»

In cats with FLUTD, it helps to create a water barrier that protects the cells of the urinary tract, which in turn helps prevent bacteria and crystals from adhering to their surface.

There are plenty of starfish in the crystal clear waters to gawp at as you gently snorkel along the surface.

If the water's crystal - clear, snorkellers can also read the information plaques below the surface.

Snorkel through crystal - clear waters or float above the surface aboard a private sailboat.

When we dive we are immersed in salt water and when we return to the surface, unless we rinse off thoroughly with fresh water, there will be salt water on our skin which evaporates leaving small salt crystals on our skin and hair.

Hidden away deep in the forest, the Blue Eye (Syri i Kalter) is a natural spring where crystal clear water bubbles up from 50 metres below the surface.

The areas» natural beauty continues below the surface of the crystal clear waters.

But I enjoy this picture b / c it shows the crystal clear waters of the lake exposing the pebbles and stones below the surface with the jagged Tetons cutting the horizon.

Manta Point and Crystal Bay can be more challenging due to the currents and cold water, and Nusa Lembongan is the relaxing, warmer, shallower dive usually done after a long lunch break and surface interval.

She has captured such events as speeding motorcycles on the Bonneville Salt Flats, Olympic synchronized swimmers in their attempts to defy gravity, kayaks performing a synchronized ballet in Arctic waters, sulfur miners inside an active volcano, a camel caravan crossing the Taklamakan desert of Western China, the exploration of an otherworldly crystal cavern half a mile below the earth's surface, and Afar nomads defending the volatile and volcanic Danakil Depression in the Horn of Africa.

Before the ice gets too thick, the temperature contrast between the warmer water and the cold atmosphere makes conditions just right for the formation of surface crystals like this field of frost flowers on Dillon Reservoir, in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

Six types of instruments aboard Aqua are to scan through the atmosphere down to the surface, gathering the most detailed data ever on water vapor in clouds, ice crystals in the air, evaporation, water in the oceans, icebergs and other sea ice, as well as glaciers and snow pack on land.

White ice crystals deposited on the surface of objects that have a temperature below the freezing point of water.

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.

At midnight it was -15 C outside in light winds in a small High Arctic Barrow Strait bay (74 43 North) and larger patches of grey ice were forming amongst open water with a star light night with ice crystals columns, it looks like my -11 C surface temperature refreeze setting may need to be revised to a cooler number.

The dust particles act as surfaces, or kernels, for water vapor to attach to in low clouds, and for ice crystals to form around in higher clouds.

Contrails are produced by hot aircraft engine exhaust mixing with the cold air that is typical at cruise altitudes several miles above Earth's surface, and are composed primarily of water in the form of ice crystals... Researchers are most interested in persistent contrails because they create long - lasting, and sometimes extensive, clouds that would not normally form in the atmosphere, and are believed to be a factor in influencing Earth's environment.