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 shel
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 shel
in 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: fas
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: fas
in 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 vaporis
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 vaporis
ice 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 surfac
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 surfac
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 surfac
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 surfac
in 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 mor
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 mor
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 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.