Sentences with word «iceball»

Interesting, but what does this imply about the temperatures in iceball earth eras and the forcings needed to escape therefrom?

The recommended serve is with a hand - carved iceball for the ultimate Japanese experience, but it is an extremely versatile blend and can be enjoyed neat, on the rocks, blended with water or mixed as a cocktail.

«It's certainly not a dirty iceball or an icy dirtball,» he told New Scientist.

Rosetta became the first spacecraft to orbit a space iceball when it reached Comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko in 2014.

At first, when observations of the comet were sparse and its orbit wasn't well defined, they suggested that the cosmic iceball even had a small chance of striking Mars.

The finds lend support to a scenario of an ancient «iceball Mars» in which ice encased much of the planet.

But even now — and this is what most people don't realize about Pluto — we owe that little iceball a ton of respect.

Those worlds are low - density, substantially iceballs, lacking the metals that they'd need to generate a magnetic field of their own that could deflect the charged particles of the Jovian radiation belts.

The heavier - coated dogs got iced up in the snow (snow compacted and formed little, hard iceballs that clung to the dog's coat and weighed it down).

If it wasn't for the warming effect of carbon dioxide, the Earth would've been a frozen iceball throughout much of its history.

Fortunately, that dynamic is physically impossible, else the planet would look like this: [picture of iceball]»

Pluto doesn't have much of an air blanket, and it changes over the course of Pluto's orbit as the tiny iceball approaches and recedes from the Sun.

John Barrow and Frank Tipler's Anthropic Cosmological Principle (1984) provides plenty of material SF readers / writers... including anthropic climate - sensitivities spanning the range from -100 °C (iceball Earth) to +200 °C (furnace Earth).

Initially, scientists thought this comet's close pass might be a little too close, and that the comet's coma — the hazy cloud of dust and water vapor spewed from the iceball's surface as it warmed — would slam into Mars with spectacular effect.

This creates what Tumyan calls an «iceball» around the tumor that freezes and kills it.

With a brown dwarf within a parsec of our own system being a hopeful and still - possible scenario for a more - accessible long - term destination than the Alpha Centauri system, I'd say the idea and hope that there could be something even semi-habitable in close orbit around that brown dwarf is a lot more exciting than just rocks or iceballs.

Once they are unfrozen, they can not be frozen again, even if they are hit with a iceball from an Ice Flower.

Lost Planet: Extreme Condition introduced to us an isolated hell - hole of a planet, EDN III, an iceball rich with energy.

If Earth were somehow blasted into interstellar space, it would still have a climate - it would be an iceball.

Things like assumptions about linearity (which means more or less, they make the mistake of assuming that all forcings and feedbacks operate at similar ratios and strengths when the planet is an iceball as they do when Earth hits a rare warm phase).

This insulating property of the atmosphere prevents the planet from turning into an iceball.