Sentences with phrase «like ice structures»

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.

Not exact matches

Images from the High Resolution Stereo Camera on Mars Express show raft - like ground structures — dubbed «plates» — that look similar to ice formations near Earth's poles, according to an international team of scientists.

And the ice borer itself was just a fantastic twist on a hardly more believable animal, the Namibian naked mole rat, a nearly blind mammal that has a social structure like an ant's.

The structures exploit a principle known as «negative thermal expansion,» in which a substance — like ice — shrinks instead of expanding when heated.

These ice - like water and methane structures encapsulate so much methane that many researchers view them as both a potential energy resource and an agent for environmental change.

Structures that look like ice rafts are floating in a refrozen matrix; the remarkable absence of craters there points to a geologically active surface and hints that liquid water may have welled up from below in the recent past.

«We'll be able to triple our data collection rate and see finer detail within steep structures, like crevasses or sea ice leads, in addition to measuring ice elevation more accurately.»

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).

Haphazardly and without structure or planning, constantly in damage - control... I've been called «ice queen», «runner» and told that I date like a man.

The ice structures — which look like something straight out of a Disney movie — are maintained by hand and grown every winter.

Phendrana drifts is like the Antartica with ice adapted monsters, cold pools, grand ice structures with statues and history.

Stacked here like blocks of ice or stones, they conjure all manner of contradictory associations: walls, igloos, Donald Judd boxes, and more unlikely, Anselm Kiefer's massive acrylic, oil, shellac, and sand painting of a serpentine structure The Fertile Crescent (2009).

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.

This is an ice - like solid that consists of methane surrounded by water molecules in a lattice structure.

Weather damage may seem like a vague term but if you home is damaged by ice, snow, sleet or lightning then weather damage can help you repair the structure and replace the contents of your home.