Sentences with phrase «ice surfaces in»

Algae grow on other ice surfaces in areas such as the Himalayas, where they reside on water - producing glaciers.
City Park has the largest artificial ice surface in Europe; and it is also the home of the Vajdahunyad Castle, the Gundel Restaurant, the zoo and grand circus and the famous Széchenyi Thermal Bath.
The apparent absence of lakes in Greenland had previously been explained by the fact that steeper ice surface in Greenland leads to any water below the ice being «squeezed out» to the margin.
City Park has the largest artificial ice surface in Europe; and it is also the home of the Vajdahunyad Castle, the Gundel Restaurant, the zoo and grand circus and the famous Széchenyi Thermal Bath.
Despite the warmer climate during the Eemian, when seas were roughly 4 to 8 meters, or 13 to 26 feet, higher than today, the ice surface in the vicinity of the coring project was only a few hundred meters lower than its present level.

Not exact matches

«In a future mission, we could fly through those plumes and tell a lot about the chemistry and nature of the surface» and possibly a liquid ocean below, Bob Pappalardo, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who wasn't involved in the work, told Business Insider — all without having to drill through the moon's miles - thick ice shelIn a future mission, we could fly through those plumes and tell a lot about the chemistry and nature of the surface» and possibly a liquid ocean below, Bob Pappalardo, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who wasn't involved in the work, told Business Insider — all without having to drill through the moon's miles - thick ice shelin the work, told Business Insider — all without having to drill through the moon's miles - thick ice shell.
That would mean, amongst other things, that there were no ice caps or salt water, that plate tectonics were incredibly rapid in the recent past and this didn't cause the Earth's surface to shatter etc..
Just as fresh atmospheric conditions mean that the ice surface must first be tested afresh to see if it can be judged as safe, so our knowledge and working conclusions must be continually re-tested in the light of fresh data to see if we may still trust ourselves to them.
The ice is beginning to crack in another section of the cold, hard surface of modernity.
Spoon the ice cream into the dish in an even layer and smooth up the surface with the back of a spoon.
(I didn't need to add extra flour because you work so much in when you flour your surface) I just suggest chilling the dough properly so that your house shapes keep the right form, and then trimming the edges when they're warm our of the over so the icing adheres better.
1) Mix flour, butter and icing sugar in a bowl using two knives to cut the butter until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs 2) Add in the egg yolks and vanilla extracts and mix well, then add iced water until the dough starts to come together 3) Shape the dough into a ball on a cool, flat, floured surface 4) Flatten dough into a disc and then wrap in plastic wrap, and chill in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes 5) Meanwhile, peel, core and slice the apples into as thin slices as possible 6) Mix sugar and ground cinnamon powder with sliced apples and let it rest for a while 7) Pre-heat oven to 180 deg cel 8) Once dough has chilled, roll pastry dough on a sheet of parchment paper until it has expanded to the size of the tart mold (I used a rough mold the size of a large pizza) 9) Leaving at least an inch of dough free, arrange apple slices by overlapping them slightly in the shape of a circle, starting from the outermost part of the circle, until you reach the inside 10) Fold the edges of dough over the filling and then sprinkle the dough with a bit of sugar 11) Bake for about 40 - 45 minutes, or until the crust is golden brown and the apples are soft 12) Serve warm, with a side of whipped cream or ice cream (optional)
One caveat: «If the surface of whatever you're serving in it is even a little bit wet, it'll stick to the ice bowl.»
Store in a container or jar, cover the surface with a little more olive oil and keep in the fridge for a week, or freeze in ice cube trays and once frozen transfer to zip lock bags for easy access.
When you can drizzle the icing in stripes across the surface, and it takes a few seconds for those drizzles to dissolve back into the icing, the texture is right.
It started on a New Year's Day, with pomp, parades, bowl queens and quarterbacks in a traditional spectacle, and it ended hardly hours ago to the shush of skis across a hundred mountain slopes, the tranquillity of a year - end sunset seen from a thousand duck blinds and the last ice fisherman packing up his gear onthe frozen surface of Lake Minnetonka.
Despite the adverse conditions for the opening in Kansas City — the stockyard odors, dim lighting, ice - rink surface and nontournament format — the potential for the new tour's success was obvious.
A goalie has to be locked in for 60 + minutes, following the puck every square inch on the ice surface.
NHL games will be played with more dispatch in coming seasons, but $ 125 rinkside seats won't be removed to expand the ice surface to Olympic size (15 feet wider than NHL arenas), the three 100 - second TV timeouts per period won't disappear, and despite a growing sentiment among players, including Mario Lemieux, that removing the red line would enhance the flow of the game, this is a back - burner issue.
In rain or shine, snow or ice — indeed, in perhaps everything but the most extreme weather conditions — it is expected to be the only racing surface to carry just one designation: fasIn rain or shine, snow or ice — indeed, in perhaps everything but the most extreme weather conditions — it is expected to be the only racing surface to carry just one designation: fasin perhaps everything but the most extreme weather conditions — it is expected to be the only racing surface to carry just one designation: fast.
«You'd have to dump water in there all week to fill it and get a flat surface for ice skating.»
So the Chicago Park District's Marine Rescue Unit gathered on the frozen surface of the Lincoln Park Lagoon with ropes, tires, car battery jumper cables, tree limbs and even screwdrivers to demonstrate what to do in the event that someone falls through the ice.
«When the weather fluctuates between warm and cold and in bodies of water where there are currents underneath the ice, it can weaken the surface of the ice and make it dangerously fragile even though it seems to be frozen solid,» said Joe Pecoraro, manager of the Park District's Beaches and Pools Unit, who narrated the demonstration.
Word has surfaced Friday that the Board of Trustees at Nichols School in Buffalo has agreed to change the name of the school's ice rink.
Such a crust could have formed as energetic particles known as cosmic rays bombarded the object over its lifetime, creating an ice - free surface rich in organic compounds.
The data showed that, in comparison to today, the Atlantic Ocean surface circulation was much weaker during the Little Ice Age, a cool period thought to be triggered by volcanic activity that lasted from 1450 - 1850.
Congelation ice, unlike «snow ice,» grows slowly downward from the surface of a calm lake in a vertical, column - like fashion with horizontal interlocking grains
For years geologists have thought that hidden features could subtly sculpt the surface above, leaving ghostly hints in the ice.
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.
Miniaturization is the key: Experiments that once required a room full of lasers, optical elements, and vacuum systems can now fit in a device the size of an ice chest, with the atoms trapped on the surface of a microchip.
Stewart Jamieson from Durham University in England and his colleagues made the discovery by looking for subtle changes in the ice sheet's surface shapes, developed as a result of ice flowing over diverse topography.
«Clouds are one of the major feedbacks in cooling and heating the surface» of the ice, said Nate Miller, an atmospheric science graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
The needle on his voltmeter jerked sideways, registering a sharp drop in voltage on the crystal's surface — evidence of a microscopic electric field that might arrange and orient molecules on the ice's surface.
A cubic yard of air contains hundreds of thousands of microscopic specks, but only about one in a million possesses the exact molecular geometry that will organize water molecules on its surface to spawn an ice crystal.
The reaction rate between atmospheric hydrogen chloride (HCl) and chlorine nitrate (ClONO2) is greatly enhanced in the presence of ice particles; HCl dissolves readily into ice, and the collisional reaction probability for ClONO2 on the surface of ice with HCl in the mole fraction range from ∼ 0.003 to 0.010 is in the range from ∼ 0.05 to 0.1 for temperatures near 200 K. Chlorine (Cl2) is released into the gas phase on a time scale of at most a few milliseconds, whereas nitric acid (HNO3), the other product, remains in the condensed phase.
Higher precipitation levels in the region and melting ice would decouple the surface from the deeper water layers.
In areas that are both bright and cold, water ice may be present on the surface as frost.
Ice is thought to have formed beyond a «snow line» somewhere in the asteroid belt, but it is not clear how common it is in asteroids because their surface ice rapidly vaporisIce is thought to have formed beyond a «snow line» somewhere in the asteroid belt, but it is not clear how common it is in asteroids because their surface ice rapidly vaporisice rapidly vaporises.
But it is not clear how common ice might be in the main asteroid belt, because sunlight is expected to quickly vaporise ice on the surfaces of airless bodies that fly closer to the sun than Jupiter.
On the nanometer scale, we observed the coexistence of ordered surface water and crystallite - like ice structures, evident in the superposition of Bragg spots and Debye - Scherrer rings.
In 2008, however, Andrew Rivkin of Johns Hopkins University in Laurel, Maryland, and Joshua Emery of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, found hints (pdf) that the asteroid 24 Themis, which sits in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, could have water ice on its surfacIn 2008, however, Andrew Rivkin of Johns Hopkins University in Laurel, Maryland, and Joshua Emery of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, found hints (pdf) that the asteroid 24 Themis, which sits in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, could have water ice on its surfacin Laurel, Maryland, and Joshua Emery of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, found hints (pdf) that the asteroid 24 Themis, which sits in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, could have water ice on its surfacin Mountain View, California, found hints (pdf) that the asteroid 24 Themis, which sits in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, could have water ice on its surfacin the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, could have water ice on its surface.
Exact numbers are a work in progress The scientists used a combination of surface elevation data from satellites and planes between 1978 and 2012 and a GPS network that weighs the ice sheet like a scale, according to Ohio State.
«What is most likely the case is that the parent body [of this family] was water - ice - rich, was broken up, and now the surface of its largest fragment, Themis, has been impact - excavated, revealing the ice that was once deep in a larger object,» says Britney Schmidt of UCLA, who was not affiliated with Campins's study.
In that case, the ice seen on the surface now would once have been buried beneath dust and rock that insulated it from the sun's heat and prevented it from escaping into space.
The new observations suggest water ice, mixed with organic molecules, is «widespread on the surface of the asteroid», Humberto Campins of the University of Central Florida in Orlando reported at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division of Planetary Sciences in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, last week.
Today the small amount of water detected on the planet is locked in the polar ice caps, but recently discovered geological features suggest liquid water once flowed on its surface.
In science news around the world, NASA scientists spot evidence for ice volcanoes on the surface of Pluto, transmission of the Ebola virus comes to an end in Sierra Leone, Canada's new minister of innovation, science, and economic development reinstates the country's long - form census and announces that government scientists are free again to speak to the media, the United Kingdom's House of Commons Science and Technology Committee calls for a strategy to increase government research funding, and morIn science news around the world, NASA scientists spot evidence for ice volcanoes on the surface of Pluto, transmission of the Ebola virus comes to an end in Sierra Leone, Canada's new minister of innovation, science, and economic development reinstates the country's long - form census and announces that government scientists are free again to speak to the media, the United Kingdom's House of Commons Science and Technology Committee calls for a strategy to increase government research funding, and morin Sierra Leone, Canada's new minister of innovation, science, and economic development reinstates the country's long - form census and announces that government scientists are free again to speak to the media, the United Kingdom's House of Commons Science and Technology Committee calls for a strategy to increase government research funding, and more.
Because Charon's modern - day surface is mostly water ice, it makes sense that the 1212 - km - diameter moon once had a subsurface ocean kept liquid by heat from the radioactive decay of elements in its core, as well as by the heat generated from collisions of smaller bits when the moon first accumulated.
Today both poles are getting warmer; in Greenland and Antarctica you can see the surface of the ice dropping, and you can see there's less mass when you measure the ice from space.
Some slushy ice may have oozed to the surface in Ganymede's past if the ocean was closer to the surface, Stevenson notes, creating smoother lanes of ice between crumpled fragments of the crust.
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