Sentences with phrase «like ice surface»

But DeConto says that Hindmarsh's work predicts future ice loss based on what's happened so far, and doesn't take into account processes like ice surface melt that haven't kicked in yet.

Not exact matches

The event drew stars like Tampa Bay Lightning forward Steven Stamkos and Montreal Canadiens sharpshooter Mike Cammalleri, who, alongside a group of the league's most promising prospects, all paid for the opportunity to press iron, grunt through excruciating exercises and run skating drills on the storied ice surface at Toronto's St. Michael's College School Arena.

Decorating: On top of flooding If you'd like to do other patterns / outlines or writing on top of the flooded surface so that they are raised above the flooded background, simply allow the icing to dry, preferably over night.

The saltmakers boil the brine, then reduce the temperature until inverted - pyramid crystals form on the surface, like the skein of ice on a martini.

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

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.

«You'd have surfaces creeping down buildings like icing.

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.

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.

Fluffy dust up to 16 feet thick coats the comet's surface and acts like sunscreen, protecting the vulnerable ice from the sun's heat.

Intriguingly, that means water could potentially reach the surface from a deep crater, where there was less ice to get through — perhaps even from a crater like the one where Dawn saw the bright spot.

«We don't know how thick the ice is, where the thin spots are, or where on the surface you might go to find out what it's like inside Europa.

While «we think of ammonia like Mr. Clean and Windex, very liquid,» McKinnon says, at Pluto's subfreezing surface temperatures, ammonia freezes into solid ice.

Once on Ceres» surface, the Slurpee - like material couldn't flow far, and it slowly built up a 3 - mile - high ice volcano.

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.

Over its 10 - year life span, the spacecraft observed the Martian surface and atmosphere repeatedly, exposing details — like the shrinking carbon dioxide ice cap on the south pole — that would have been lost to onetime measurements.

The view from the surface shows rounded blocks of water ice, like eroded stones in a creek bed.

A team of researchers from Arizona State University (ASU) has developed a new way to prevent ice buildup on surfaces like airplane wings, finding inspiration in an unusual source: the poison dart frog.

Like a cosmic lava lamp, a large section of Pluto's icy surface is renewed by a process called convection that replace older ices with fresher material.

Ice shells of icy satellites can have warm interiors — approximately 0 degrees C — but surface temperatures as low as -200 degrees C -LRB--330 F), like on Saturn's moon Enceladus, though the team's apparatus does not reach that extremely low temperature.

Flying over the ice in a repurposed DC - 3 military airplane, seeing the massive icebergs and the miles - long fractures splitting the surface like frozen lightning bolts, she could not stop thinking about the chaotic terrain hundreds of millions of miles away on Europa.

Not far from a range of giant ice mountains on Pluto lies a vast stretch of icy plains whose surface is broken into cell - like blocks by snaking troughs, new photos by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft reveal.

The forces Philae records as it touches down will tell researchers whether the surface is like fresh powdered snow, hard ice or something in between.

Like the inferred lakes on Europa, Vostok lies some two miles under a shell of surface ice and remains liquid due to the crushing pressure of that overlying mass.

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.

Europa's smooth, billiard - ball - like surface was covered with cracks, a landscape that eerily resembled Earth's Arctic ice in winter.

The researchers used a range of data of other ice sheet dynamics, like snowfall and surface velocity of ice, to create a more detailed overview of Greenland's topography.

The study stops short of attributing California's latest drought to changes in Arctic sea ice, partly because there are other phenomena that play a role, like warm sea surface temperatures and changes to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, an atmospheric climate pattern that typically shifts every 20 to 30 years.

The surface of a mammoth tooth looks like a washboard, perfect for grinding grasses that grew during the last ice age.

The ice would behave a bit like dew, which evaporates in the heat of the day and then condenses on cool surfaces at night.

Research has already helped us learn a lot about «Oumuamua's rare cigar - like shape, what it's made of (ice with a carbon - rich surface) and its highly unusual orbit, which will take it out of our solar system at a speed of around 26 km / s.

After studying how quickly Europa's surface ice was replenished, University of Arizona researcher Richard Greenberg estimated in 2009 that enough oxygen reaches the subterranean ocean to sustain 6.6 billion pounds of «microfauna» — more complex animal - like organisms.

«Considering that the surface is moving much faster than we had previously thought, it could also affect things like the stability of the ice caps and help us to understand past climate change.»

Cassini has sampled the ice crystals and vapor that spew like geysers out of cracks in the surface of Enceladus.

Unlike most smaller Kuiper belt objects, these Pluto - sized bodies are mostly round, likely internally differentiated with the ice and rock separated, and contain frozen volatile ices, like nitrogen, carbon monoxide and methane, in varying amounts on their evolving surfaces.

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.

Images of the alien landscape obtained by New Horizons revealed that the surface of Sputnik Planitia is divided into cell - like formations composed of nitrogen - rich ice.

If the craft were to crash on the surface of a cold moon like Enceladus, the RTGs could easily thaw a path through tens of kilometers of ice, and plop down into the liquid water ocean beneath, though this might take a long time.

The comet appears to have undergone visible changes, including the changes in the size and number of surface features such as smooth patches, pits, and craters, and the loss of ice vaporized by the Sun or blasted off its surface by the Solar Wind into its tail as well as failing back on the object like snow, so that it appears to shrink, on average, by 25 to 50 centimeters (9.2 to 19.7 inches) with each orbit around the Sun.

Unlike Ceres, which orbits just around or beyond the Solar System's ice line, Vesta's surface is not icy, like Ceres, Vesta appears to be an evolved body.

Because the surface of Pluto is so cold, the water ice is rock - like and immobile.

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Specifically, cataracts appear as cloudy or opaque, like crushed glass or ice distributed on the surface of the eye.

Allegedly, Ice Shuffle is a kind of version of Curling, but all I know is that it invokes the same frictionless physics that made games like the NHL series so appealing, where objects zoom around on a pleasant, gleaming surface at unnatural speeds.

Thiebaud, however, builds surfaces up, swirls of paint following the object like real icing.

The surfaces of her pictures are built from layers of acrylic paint, charcoal and coloured pencil in vintage, jewel - like colours: mahogany and maroon, peach and lime, ice - blue and old rose.

In the show that first forged his artistic identity in 1991 at the influential Nicola Jacobs Gallery, Stubbs exhibited an extraordinary group of paintings each made of a stack of canvases with thick paint oozing out between them, their uppermost surfaces unambiguously decorated like a cake, with oil applied through icing funnels.

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Dubuffet kept a log of his technique - laying the stretched canvas on the floor, he covered the entire surface with a thick, sticky layer of oil paint, like icing a cake.