Sentences with phrase «frozen nitrogen ice»

After its deployment, NICMOS kept its detectors cold inside a cryogenic dewar (a thermally insulated container much like a thermos bottle) containing frozen nitrogen ice.

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The presentation is educational as it explains how liquid nitrogen can be harnessed to freeze fresh ingredients into ice cream.

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Mountains of water ice tower thousands of meters over fields of frozen nitrogen and methane.

On Pluto, a slurry of nitrogen and water ice melted by subsurface heat stands in for lava, the team suggests, freezing solid once it is exposed at the surface.

There, nitrogen and other «volatile» gases freeze solid in the cryogenic conditions, and water turns to rock - hard ice.

This process would play out during Pluto's decades - long seasons stretched across billions of years, as summertime plumes of gaseous nitrogen freeze out as snow to become trapped as wintertime ice in Sputnik Planitia's giant basin.

Most likely it is nitrogen ice, accumulated as gases in Pluto's atmosphere freeze during its 60 - year - long winter.

Of particular interest is the heart's western lobe, informally named Sputnik Planitia, a deep basin containing three kinds of ices — frozen nitrogen, methane and carbon monoxide — and appearing opposite Charon, Pluto's tidally locked moon.

There is probably water - ice at depth on Pluto, but the surface ice is a mixture of frozen methane, ethane, carbon monoxide and nitrogen.

This photo has a resolution of about 80 meters per pixel, crisp enough to show the jagged edges of ice mountains that rise above a plain of frozen nitrogen.

Although Charon is close in size to Pluto, it appears covered with water ice, whereas Pluto appears much redder and is blanketed in frozen nitrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide.

The Animal Core routinely provides liver samples to individual investigators either on ice, fixed in formalin for histology, frozen in optimal cutting temperature (OCT) compound for immunohistochemistry, flash frozen or freeze - clamped in liquid nitrogen for biochemical assays or stored in RNA later.

«The randomly jumbled mountains might be huge blocks of hard water ice floating within a vast, denser, softer deposit of frozen nitrogen within the region informally named Sputnik Planum.»

Fifty seventh - and eighth - graders from John Witherspoon Middle School in Princeton came to PPPL for a half day on March 4 to become scientists — doing a variety of hands - on science activities, from building a motor to sampling ice cream frozen with liquid nitrogen in a cryogenics demonstration, to watching cool plasma demonstrations of lightning, static electricity and stars.

Some reports suggest rapidly freezing virus in a dry ice / ethanol bath or liquid nitrogen prior to storing.

Unlike most smaller Kuiper belt objects, these Pluto - sized bodies are mostly round, likely internally differentiated with the ice and rock separated, and contain frozen volatile ices, like nitrogen, carbon monoxide and methane, in varying amounts on their evolving surfaces.

Researchers have focused on the heart's western lobe, informally named Sputnik Planitia, a deep basin containing three kinds of ices — frozen nitrogen, methane and carbon monoxide — and appearing opposite Charon, Pluto's large, tidally locked moon.

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?

► A rat and a mouse are flush - frozen with liquid nitrogen; we see a refrigerator full of mice encased in ice.

Have ever managed to put a frozen ice cube of water next to a cube of frozen nitrogen in a partial void?

Without any CO2 in the air the globe would quickly become a frozen ball of ice, since the main air constituents (nitrogen 78 %, oxygen 21 %, argon 1 %) don't impede the infrared heat loss to space.