Sentences with phrase «existing ice deposit»
But an existing ice deposit might also be an exploitable water source for future human exploration.»
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«The assumption has been that surface ice on Mercury exists predominantly in large craters, but we show evidence for these smaller - scale deposits as well,» said Ariel Deutsch, the study's lead author and a Ph.D. candidate at Brown.
Similar small - scale ice deposits are thought to exist on the poles of the Moon.
Knowing that these small - scale deposits exist, and that they're likely the source of the slightly brighter surface outside craters, could dramatically increase the ice inventory on Mercury.
Here we show that the East Greenland Ice Sheet existed over the past 7.5 million years, as indicated by beryllium and aluminum isotopes (10Be and 26Al) in quartz sand removed by deep, ongoing glacial erosion on land and deposited offshore in the marine sedimentary record.
That the climate change exists is certain - ice ages, dinosaurs, coal deposits, oil; all these are evidence of a very different climate in previous years.