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There are hundreds of planets a little bigger than Earth out there, Macintosh said, but there is so far no way to know if most of them are really «super-Earths» or just micro-sized gas and ice planets like Neptune, or something different altogether.

There are hundreds of planets a little bigger than Earth, but so far no way to know if they are «super-Earths,» or micro-sized gas and ice planets like Neptune, or something different altogether, he said.

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In the process, they might identify a planet's surface features — such as oceans, continents, ice caps and even cloudbanks — and detect the presence of biomarkers like oxygen, methane and water.

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

This liquid - like ice may enhance the formation of organic compounds including prebiotic molecules and the accretion of dust to form planets.

«That may not sound like a lot, but consider the volume of ice now locked up in the planet's three greatest ice sheets,» she writes in a recent issue of Scientific American.

Planets like Mars that orbit further out from the Sun than Earth have their liquid water locked up as ice.

Many believe something like this happened 570 million years ago, when our planet may have been completely covered in ice — Snowball Earth, it's called.

Fissures and fractures around Tombaugh Regio and other parts of the planet suggested a subsurface layer of watery slush might be slowly solidifying, breaking up the surface as it expands like ice cubes in a freezer — but other, drier possibilities could also explain such cracks.

Ice loss caused by climate change is opening up the Arctic, and it looks like the competition to take advantage has the potential to destroy the region and affect the entire planet.

Ceres is a dwarf planet, and like its more famous cousin in the outer solar system, Pluto, Ceres harbors a lot of ice.

He hypothesizes that the spheres are examples of the fundamental units of ice and dust that were sintered together in the infant solar system to form asteroids, planets and comets like 67P.

During this time, when dinosaurs roamed the almost subtropical forests of an ice - free Antarctic, conditions on the other side of the planet were even more remarkable: the Arctic Ocean was a gigantic freshwater lake infested with crocodile - like reptiles.

Although Pluto was stripped of its status as a planet, an ice cap is a surprisingly Earth - like property.

The sediment cores used in this study cover a period when the planet went through many climate cycles driven by variations in Earth's orbit, from extreme glacial periods such as the Last Glacial Maximum about 20,000 years ago, when massive ice sheets covered the northern parts of Europe and North America, to relatively warm interglacial periods with climates more like today's.

«Astronomers spot faraway Uranus - like planet: First «ice giant» planet found in another solar system.»

This red dwarf pulls on the 55 Cancri system, and because all five planets in the system — and their host star — are such a tight - knit family, they behave like ice skaters holding hands, so that the companion star's tugs cause them all to do somersaults in space.

Like Jupiter's Great Red Spot (GRS), the storm swirls in an anti-cyclonic direction and is dredging up material from deep inside the ice giant planet's atmosphere.

The challenge of these facilities is to image planets even closer to their stars than those at the ice line, which includes Earth - like rocky planets.

NASA has recently shared an image of what could be halo - like craters in the dwarf planet, which may be caused by methane ice presence in their walls and rims.

Astronomers have discovered direct evidence of water on the dwarf planet Ceres in the form of vapor plumes erupting into space, possibly from volcano - like ice geysers on its surface.

While many people think it's pretty cool to see images of features like ice mountains on the most mysterious planet (even if it is a dwarf) in our solar system, imagine the excitement of the scientists that have made a career of studying Pluto having never seen it; or the engineers that built and programmed the craft, the instruments, and the flight path that had New Horizons travel the length of our solar system for nearly a decade.

And since ice planets are of some considerable interest to astronomers because they shine so bright, this additional analysis (and others like it) could be quite useful in the years ahead.

HDST would also provide detailed data on the interaction of each of the outer planets with the solar wind and give planetary scientists the ability to search for remote, hidden members of our solar system ranging in size from dwarf planets to ice giants like Neptune.

Assuming an iron - rich planet with an internal structure like Earth, modelling results for the first discovered super-Earth (GJ 876 d) indicate the existence of a threshold in planetary diameter above which a super-Earth «most certainly» has a high water content (an «ocean planet» or «water world,» where thick layers of water and pressurized ice surround a rocky mantle and core); this threshold was found to be around 24,000 kilometers (or nearly 15,000 miles) in the particular case of GJ 876 d (Valencia et al, 2007).

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Lost Planet 3 will make you ask important questions, like «is this the best song to rock an ice planet?&Planet 3 will make you ask important questions, like «is this the best song to rock an ice planet?&planet?»

Now one thing I do feel the need to mention here in this review is in regards to your playable character in the single - player campaign, Jim Peyton, whose name sounds like he should be on some American football team and not digging for energy on a faraway ice planet.

Using the figurines and builds included in the kit, photographer Markus Land constructed a series of photos showcasing the characters as they engage in activities like ice hockey or just surveying the icy planet.

[1] CO2 absorbs IR, is the main GHG, human emissions are increasing its concentration in the atmosphere, raising temperatures globally; the second GHG, water vapor, exists in equilibrium with water / ice, would precipitate out if not for the CO2, so acts as a feedback; since the oceans cover so much of the planet, water is a large positive feedback; melting snow and ice as the atmosphere warms decreases albedo, another positive feedback, biased toward the poles, which gives larger polar warming than the global average; decreasing the temperature gradient from the equator to the poles is reducing the driving forces for the jetstream; the jetstream's meanders are increasing in amplitude and slowing, just like the lower Missippi River where its driving gradient decreases; the larger slower meanders increase the amplitude and duration of blocking highs, increasing drought and extreme temperatures — and 30,000 + Europeans and 5,000 plus Russians die, and the US corn crop, Russian wheat crop, and Aussie wildland fire protection fails — or extreme rainfall floods the US, France, Pakistan, Thailand (driving up prices for disk drives — hows that for unexpected adverse impacts from AGW?)

If that acceleration trend continues unabated, through any significant portion of the planet's ice sheets, then we could lose all seaports (like NYC, Boston, Seattle) and coastal communities, natural and man - made.

Ever since the planet descended into a cycle of ice ages and warm intervals 2 million years ago, glaciers have surged and ebbed like a slow, cold tide.

If you add to this the evidence Roger A. Pielke, Sr. offers in his rebuttal of RC propaganda, I think one can safely and sanely declare that the AGW proponents are working with a house of cards: it looks like a great integrated, well designed structure, a consensus — especially to the so - called environmentalists and to their media and political allies — but so many of its foundational data sets (ocean temps, net ice melt, etc) don't support their model; at the very least, they don't support the hysterical, «save the planet» nuttiness that is rampant today.

Like Greenland and the Little Ice Age, glaciers aren't cooperating with climate alarmists either, though glacier retreat is supposedly a harbinger of doom for our warming planet.

Only during interglacials, like the one we are in now, does some of the sea ice melt during summer, when the top of the planet is oriented a bit more towards the Sun and receives large amounts of sunlight for several summer months.

In my original aqua - planet simulations I turned off sea ice completely, but from the forum FAQ page it seems like it is better to have prognostic sea ice.

On the other extreme, if we suddenly increased the GH gas concentrations a hundred fold, we would see the oceans warm rapidly, evaporation increase, all the ice melt and even perhaps warm to a Venus - like planet.

That's if you count from the annual minimum; the sea ice grows and shrinks every year, almost like the planet breathing, with the minimum normally happens around the first two weeks of September.

Actually Fielding's use of that graph is quite informative of how denialist arguments are framed — the selected bit of a selected graph (and don't mention the fastest warming region on the planet being left out of that data set), or the complete passing over of short term variability vs longer term trends, or the other measures and indicators of climate change from ocean heat content and sea levels to changes in ice sheets and minimum sea ice levels, or the passing over of issues like lag time between emissions and effects on temperatures... etc..

The samples they collect from the ice, called ice cores, hold a record of what our planet was like hundreds of thousands of years ago.

While Pinatubo - like amounts of sulfur (roughly 20 million tons) pumped into the atmosphere could linger three to four years, cooling the planet within the first months, reversing sea ice melt, and possibly even promoting tree growth, the side effects are uncertain.

Well; if a statement regarding atmospheric cooling is taking place, and we know from past experience (climate history) that if this cooling continues and the build up of ice continues in Antartica like it is; then it is possible that the planet may very well be headed back into an ice age - and when this «atmospheric cooling» trend is mentioned on the GISS [NASA] Webpage, and by one of the GISS scientists (Kate Marvel, a climatologist at GISS and the paper's lead author) then i would have to conclude that the are embracing the science revealing evidence that such mechanics are, taking place, and I view their statemnt as an endorsement and ot their recognition, of global cooling.

Consequently planets in a stable ice belt configuration should be substantially more rare than planets with Earth - like stable ice caps.

In that way, Arctic ice is unlike land - based ice sheets and glaciers in places like Greenland and Antarctica — when that ice tips off its rocky seat into the ocean, high tides all over the planet lap a little farther up the shoreline.

So cold the earth was more like the mythical ice planet Hoth at the time.

If there was significant ocean warming or ice melting the planet would be slowing down like someone put the brakes on.