Sentences with phrase «frozen ice planet»

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The single cell organism has an ancestor who probably came to earth frozen ice attached to a meteor that was blown off a distant plant due to some sort of plantary collision between a comet and a planet or two planets, or even a large meter collision... Evolution does not require that you believe to exist, it simply exists.

Forming in the system's colder outer regions, where volatile compounds such as water and carbon dioxide freeze out, makes it possible that the planets incorporated those ices and carried them along to a warmer place where they could melt, evaporate, and become oceans and atmospheres.

Extremely low temperatures on planets like Neptune — called ice giants — mean that chemicals on these distant worlds exist in a frozen state, researchers say.

For millions of years, Antarctica, the frozen continent at the southern end of the planet, has been encased in a gigantic sheet of ice.

Arctic sea ice cover, made of frozen seawater that floats on top of the ocean, helps regulate the planet's temperature by reflecting solar energy back to space.

The Phoenix lander has given scientists a close look at the ice in one spot high in the martian arctic, but researchers have also been surveying fresh craters across the planet for signs of frozen water.

The Phoenix Mars Lander, which touched down near the planet's north pole, was designed to look only for ice frozen into the Martian soil.

Current theory holds that giant planets can form only at comparatively great distances from a star, where cold temperatures allow ice and frozen gases to gather together.

It's also mind - boggling that frozen water ice is present at thousands of degrees inside these planets, but that's what the experiments show.»

Between 17,000 and 27,000 years ago, much of the planet's water was frozen at the ice caps, and the continents were extremely arid.

This led some to believe that Mars was never warm and wet but was a largely frozen planet, covered in ice - sheets and glaciers.

Imagine a massive impact creating a wave of frozen ice and slush sloshing across the planet's surface, as though Jupiter had a few too many at a solar system pool party, tripped on Saturn's rings, and knocked the frozen margarita machine all over Mars» face.

«The primary goal of the Kepler mission was to answer the question, When you look up in the night sky, what fraction of the stars that you see have Earth - size planets at lukewarm temperatures so that water would not be frozen into ice or vaporized into steam, but remain a liquid, because liquid water is now understood to be the prerequisite for life,» Marcy said.

«On frozen planets, any potential life would be buried under layers of ice, which would make it really hard to spot with telescopes,» said lead author Ramses Ramirez, research associate at Cornell's Carl Sagan Institute.

Now, if you have all this very cold, nearly freezing water surrounding these ice caps, sucking up carbon dioxide out of the polar atmosphere, at nearly the highest possible rate, 30 times faster than oxygen, and 70 times faster than nitrogen, doesn't it stand to reason that the air that remains might just have a lot less carbon dioxide in it than the atmosphere across the rest of the planet?

Currently, the planet is barren and below freezing, with much of its water seen near the surface as ice.

Liquid Nitrogen freezes the ingredients at -321 Fahrenheit for the freshest, purest, creamiest ice cream on the planet.

The Tongariro Alpine Crossing, named by Lonely Planet as one of the Top 10 World Parks, simmers with andesitic volcanoes, freezing crater lakes and retreating glaciers from the ice age.

As the ice caps melt the planet of E.D.N III turns from a frozen wasteland to a mix of jungle paradise and blistering desert.

* Because of increased dust, cloud cover and water vapor ``... the planet will cool, the water vapor will fall and freeze, and a new Ice Age will be born,» Newsweek magazine, January 26, 1970.

Another example would be Attenbrough's 7th episode of Frozen Planet «On Thin Ice» http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p011vc1z — Any tips are gratefully accepted.

Here's a question to ponder after reviewing the video of melting penguin ice sculptures above shot at the glitzy New York City celebration of the American production of «Frozen Planet.»

Snow and ice reflect heat very effectively (which is why patches of snow survive long after temperatures rise above freezing), so if warming leads to less snow, then more heat will be absorbed, which warms the planet further.

The only problem with all the predictions about the level of the World Ocean rising is that, the World Ocean is refusing to rise up in support of the predictions, the other problem is that ice is frozen fresh water and frozen fresh water only covers about 5 % of this planet above sea level and frozen water under the level of the World Ocean does not count as the World Ocean will fall a small amount if that ice melts, so if the ice there is enough to get the World Ocean to rise and significant amount then it must be piled up very high, I cubic kilometer of water as ice, should it melt, would make 1000 square kilometers rise by one meter, so when you use this simple math then somewhere on the planet, above the level of the sea, then there must be over 500,000 cubic kilometers of ice, piled up and just waiting to melt, strange that no one can find that amount of ice, all these morons who talk about the rise of the World Ocean in tens of meters, this includes you Peter Garrett or Mr. 7 Meters, the ice does not exist to allow this amount of rise in the World Ocean, it is just not there.

``... the planet will cool, the water vapor will fall and freeze, and a new Ice Age will be born.»

When water freezes, tiny gas bubbles are trapped in the ice, providing a snapshot of the composition of the planet's atmosphere at the moment of freezing.

Sediment samples gathered in south Australia led Kennedy's team to theorize that a catastrophic era of global warming was triggered some 635 million years ago by a gradual — and then abrupt — release of methane from frozen soils, bringing an end to «Snowball Earth,» when the entire planet was encrusted in ice.

The past two weeks have brought one disturbing story after another about the future of the largest ice sheet on the planet — the vast frozen expanse of the Antarctic continent.

If you put pool of water on current Mars, it may or may freeze into ice, the main factor which may cause it to freeze is water would evaporate because Mars is very dry planet.

Some specks may even end up coating ice in the frozen extremes of the planet, dulling their pristine surfaces, and hastening the melt of glaciers and ice - caps.

And yet our planet has gone through several frozen periods, in which a runaway climate effect led to global, or near global, ice cover.

One of those things is the cryosphere (the frozen parts of the planet), which is so - called because Rapley went there and bored entire mountains of ice to tears.

Arctic sea ice cover, made of frozen seawater that floats on top of the ocean, helps regulate the planet's temperature by reflecting solar energy back to space.