Sentences with phrase «for liquid»

It made a splash in August when astronomers reported that it hosts an Earth - mass planet where temperatures might be right for liquid water.

In August, we learned that it hosts an Earth - mass planet where temperatures might be right for liquid water to exist.

The study, according to Valley, strengthens the theory of a «cool early Earth,» where temperatures were low enough for liquid water, oceans and a hydrosphere not long after the planet's crust congealed from a sea of molten rock.

However, the hairs need to be far enough apart to leave room for liquid.

Climate models suggest that our planet should have been frozen over at the time, yet there is geological evidence for liquid water aplenty — a disparity that planetary scientists have dubbed the faint young sun paradox.

Their surprise, explains Ferry, demonstrates that their expectations for a liquid had not been met.

The Kepler space telescope is biased towards seeing planets very close to their stars, that are too hot for liquid water, but the team extrapolated from Kepler's results using the theory that was used to predict the existence of Uranus.

This makes it theoretically possible for liquid water to exist on its surface - water being a key prerequisite for life on Earth.

Generally each stage consists of one or more motors, plus fuel and oxidiser tanks for a liquid rocket or the casing for a solid rocket.

Granular flows at recurring slope lineae on Mars indicate a limited role for liquid water.

«Our new material provides support for the liquid silicone as it is 3D printing, allowing us create very complex structures and even encapsulated parts out of silicone elastomer,» said lead author Christopher O'Bryan, a mechanical and aerospace engineering doctoral student in UF's Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering and lead author on the paper.

Today, AT systems have been certified for liquid threat detection and are deployed at many European airports.

There is enough contrast between the clear and opaque forms for the liquid crystals to store images and text.

Wet Earth Erin Wayman's article «Faint young sun» (SN: 5/4/13, p. 30), about how the early Earth stayed warm enough for liquid water, made me wonder about the effect of the temperature of the planet itself.

The habitable zone is the belt around a star where temperatures are ideal for liquid water — an essential ingredient for life as we know it — to pool on a planet's surface.

Although some news reporters optimistically dubbed the planet «Goldilocks,» claiming it has just the right temperature for liquid water, this heavyweight is most likely a gaseous world lacking a solid surface on which water could collect.

End of the Road for Liquid Fuels?

This technology bonds hydrogen molecules within a carrier oil, eliminating the need for expensive pressure storage solutions or refrigeration units for liquid hydrogen.

The next Kepler milestone will be Earth - sized exoplanets far enough from their stars to have the right temperature for liquid water, an essential ingredient for life.

If the seismic results hold up, he adds, they would be by far the strongest evidence yet for a liquid core.

A solid detection of an Earth - size planet in a place called the «Goldilocks zone» because it's neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist — even if the researchers do use the word candidate to describe a detection with Kepler - catalog - like certainty.

This means that, even if the planet is in the right place for liquid water, a lack of atmosphere could have evaporated that water long ago, leaving a cold, barren planet of -40 ° F -LRB--40 ° C).

To be in the star's habitable zone, where the temperature is warm enough for liquid water, a planet would have to be much closer to its star than Earth is to the Sun.

A handful of these are both Earth - sized and in the habitable zones of the stars they orbit, where the temperature is right for liquid water.

«It's right in the middle of the habitable zone [the region around a star where temperatures are neither too high or too low for liquid water to exist], and it orbits a star very similar to our sun.»

The first foreign planet orbiting a star was confirmed a mere 11 years ago, and promising swaths of space like the Goldilocks zone, where the conditions are just right for liquid water, have yet to reveal habitable planets.

Unlike the four previously known planets in the same system and hundreds of others found throughout the Milky Way galaxy, Gliese 581 g sits in the middle of its host star's habitable zone, where temperatures are in the right range for liquid water to exist.

«Their high transparency facilitates observation of the biochemistry process, which is a significant challenge for liquid marbles,» says Li.

In that case, we do nothing and suffer the consequences of dealing with a burgeoning demand for liquid transportation fuels globally without offering any alternatives to petroleum.

Another name for liquid sugar.

Greeley says, «In the Antarctic, microcracks in the ice often serve as reservoirs for liquid water and cold - tolerant microorganisms to grow and flourish.

But untangling the complex chains of these polymers into components, which can be useful for liquid fuel and other applications ranging from pharmaceuticals to plastics, has presented an ongoing challenge to science and industry.

Tens of billions of those, in turn, could have the right temperature for liquid water.

For decades, thinking about the best way to search for extraterrestrials has centered on a «Goldilocks» zone where temperatures are «just right» for liquid water, a key ingredient for life, to wet the surface of an Earth doppelgänger.

Studying how the dwarf planet's climate changed over time shows it once had the right conditions for liquid to flow on its surface - and may still have buried lakes today

«New chemistries found for liquid batteries.»

However, there are additional issues associated with the low temperatures required for liquid systems installed on small properties.

«By evaluating the risks quantitatively, we believe we can shorten the separation distances required in the code for liquid hydrogen just as we did with gaseous hydrogen.

Researchers say this antifreeze effect makes it possible for liquid water to be widespread just below the surface of Mars, but point out that even if it is there, it may be too salty to support life as we know it.

The Hanford cleanup mission commenced in 1989, and construction of a waste treatment plant for the liquid radioactive waste in tanks was launched a decade later and is more than three - fifths finished.

This year, he said, «I was trained as a software developer for KSC's new firing room, where they will launch future manned and unmanned space vehicles, and spent most of my time developing code to test the various software displays for the liquid oxygen tank that is out at the launch pad.»

All these supports and promotion schemes for liquid biofuels should be scrapped, because of overwhelming scientific evidence that using land to produce energy crops delivers no climate benefits at all once agricultural emissions and land - use change are taken into account.

But planets this close to a cooler star, like a red dwarf, might have the right surface temperatures for liquid water.

«Salvinia effect» also has potential for liquid - handling technology that executes «microdroplet manipulation» — a breakthrough where the adhesion of liquid to a robotic arm can be tuned accordingly and result in non-loss transfer for very tiny amounts of liquid.

What's more, one of the planets is in the stars» habitable zone, the region around the suns where temperatures are just right for liquid water — and therefore maybe life — to exist on a planet's surface.

Third, we want alternatives for liquid transportation fuels: glucose, agricultural waste products, lumber waste products.

But when it comes to a climate that's suitable for liquid water, M dwarf planets have plenty of hurdles, says James Kasting, a geophysicist at Penn State.

One of them, Kepler 47c, is probably a gas giant, but it lies in a region warm enough for liquid water.

«Any place you've got the potential for liquid water, you've got the potential for life,» says Titus.

Their moons, though, might have the right conditions for liquid surface water and therefore for life to emerge and evolve.